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Sherry Wiggins
website: http://www.sherrywiggins.com
e- mail: sherrywiggins55@hotmail.com
telephone 303-444-1162
EDUCATION
2005 MFA, Sculpture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1988 BFA, Sculpture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Crossing Over the Land – portraits and interviews from Palestine”
International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank
2009 “Signs of Globalization”
Escuela Superior de Arte, Universidad of San Carlos Guatemala,
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2008 – 2009 “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces”
Jennifer Heath, curator.
The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO (2008)
University of Arkansas Fine Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR (2008)
Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (2008)
Indiana University East Art Galleries, Bloomington, Indiana (2009)
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
2009 “Daughters of Palestine”
Tuning – at the International Incheon Women’s Biennial
curated by Heng-Gil Han
Incheon, Korea
2009 “AZAG/GAZA: Mirroring War”
Galeria Zapata, Oaxaca, Mexico
Museo de Arte Virreinal, Casa Humboldt, Taxco, Mexico
2009 “Ecology”
Sala de Escuela Superior de Arte el Paranimfo, Universidad of San Carlos,
Guatemala City, Guatemala
2006 – 2009 “Turning Our Tongues” – An audio project with young women of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp
Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, USA (2006)
The Nobel Women's Initiative International Conference, Galway, Ireland (2007)
Submerged Entropy: Recovering Cultural Voice, Michigan, USA, (2007)
Invent-L Conference 2007: Imaging Place, Gainesville, USA, (2007)
Exit Art: New York, New York, (2007)
International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine, (2009)
2008 “Walk Bethlehem” - performance with the 6+ collective
Contemporary Collectives do Outrageous Work
Carey Lovelace, curator.
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2008 “After Tractatus”
Universidad Nacional, Columbia
Universidad de Iquitos, Peru
Universidad del Estado del Amazonas UEA, Brasil
Biblioteca Publica del Banco de la Republica
2008 “Centers and Borders”
XYZ Gallery Beijing, China,
The Gallery of the School of Fine Arts, Yinchaun, China
Ningxia Exhibition Center, Yinchaun, China
2006 - 2008 “Secrets”
International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank (2006)
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, West Bank (2006)
Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem (2006)
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO (2007)
Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL (2008)
2008 “Art and Social Change/Land Culture and Memory”
International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank
2007 “Nexus”
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia, Leticia, Colombia
Universidad del Estado del Amazonas, UEA, Brasil, Tabatinga, Brazil
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin,
Escuela de Artes,Medellin, Colombia
2007 “Weather Report”
Lucy R. Lippard, curator
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2006 “Confluence – an Outdoor Site Specific Exhibition”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2005 “Post Industrial Carnival”
Union Train Station, Tampa, Florida
2005 “Left There: a Site Specific Art Exhibition”
Lykins Gulch Farm, Longmont, CO
2005 “Futures and Histories Restored”
Masters Thesis Exhibition
CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
2004 “Common Wounds”
International Center, Bethlehem, West Bank
2004 “Visiones del Norte”
Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 “Dream Houses”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2000 “Colorado 2000”
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1999 “Housed”
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996 “Elementary Landscapes”
Collaboration with Jim Logan, Susan Edwards, and the Mariposa Collective
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996 “Shift”
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
CU Art Galleries, Boulder, CO
1994 “Art That Interprets the Earth”
University of the Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 “Midlands Invitational 1992: Installation”
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1992 “Art Outside”
Artyard, Denver, CO
1991 “Creative Fellowship Show”
MSCD Center for the Arts, Denver, CO
1991 “Rites of Spring”
Connemara Conservancy
Foundation, Dallas, Texas
1990 “Dream Chambers”
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
1989 “Small Sculpture”
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
1989 “Sherry Wiggins” solo exhibition
Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
1989 “Colorado Sculpture”
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
1988 “Sculpture in the Park”
Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 - 2010 Founding member of 6+: art collective - organizing exhibitions, workshops,
performances and publications internationally and in the US
1996 - 2002 Designer/Manager
Jim Logan Architects, Boulder, CO
1996 Recipient, Co-Visions Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO
1996 Recipient, Visionary Award, American Institute of Architects, CO
1992 Commissioned Artist, Fenceline Artifact and Prairie Wedge
Denver International Airport, with artist Lewis Buster Simpson
1991 Commissioned Artist, Waterworks
Farver Collection, Woody Creek, CO
1991 Creative Fellowship Award, Sculpture
Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO
1991 - 1995 Commissioned Artist, Lost Borders
City and County of Denver, Denver, CO
1990 Artist Design Consultant
New Denver International Airport Art Program
City and County of Denver, CO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Black, Baxter. “Farm Art.” Livestock Market Digest, October 15,1996.
Borcila, Rozalinda. “Learning alongside – notes from “Turning our Tongues: Audio Journals from Dheisheh Refugee Camp.”
Third Text Journal, 2008.
Dickenson, Carol. “Installation Art Strokes Senses.” Rocky Mountain News, July 8, 1990.
Farhat, Maymanah. “The Unearthing of Secrets.” ArteEast – ArteNews, March 2007.
Hayden, Niki. “A Designing Woman.” Boulder Daily Camera, October 11 1992.
Heath, Jennifer. “Alchemy of Elements forges Elementary Landscapes Installation.” Boulder Planet, October 23, 1996.
Lippard, Lucy. “Smoldering Secrets.” Secrets Catalogue, 2008.
Lippard, Lucy. “Weather Report – Art and Climate Change.” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.
Lippard, Lucy. “The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society.” New York: The New Press, 1997.
Marglin, Elizabeth. “Left There.” Boulder Daily Camera, October 7, 2005.
Marglin, Elizabeth. “Master Works.” Boulder Daily Camera, April 11, 2005.
Oakes, Baile. “Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural Dialogue.” New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.
Rosen, Steven. “People Oriented Artwork.” The Denver Post, July 19, 1992.