Claire Sherman

Claire Sherman's paintings use landscape as a subject while addressing tragedy, romanticism and ambivalence. She has had solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Hof and Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam; and Aurobora Press, San Francisco. Claire's work has been in recent group shows at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Western Exhibitions, Samson Projects, Galleria Glance, and Gregory Lind Gallery. Her work is included in numerous collections, including UBS Bank, the Martin Margulies Collection, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. She has completed residencies at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France, and the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, and will participate in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundations Space Program in Brooklyn in 2009/10. Claire was born in Oberlin, Ohio in 1981, and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.F.A from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.