
Years at Knox: 2006 to present.
Education
B.A., 2003, University of Pennsylvania.
M.F.A., 2005, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recent Recognition
Awards
Rose Undergraduate Research Award, 2003.
Senior Thesis Research Award, 2003.
Undergraduate Painting and Drawing Award, 2000 and 2002.
Grants
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2004.
University Scholars' Summer Research Grants, 2001-2003.
Recent Accomplishments
Publications
"Weeds II." The Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Painting and Sculpture, The Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, Inc., image reproduction (2008): 332.
"New American Painting, Juried Exhibition in Print, Mid-Atlantic Region." 2006.
Presentations
"Color's Emotive Power." College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.
"Painting: Issues of Color." Studio Art Open Session, 2005.
Exhibitions
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, 2008.
Wintergarten: Scott Anderson, Adam Scott, and Claire Sherman, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Several Landscapes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois, 2008.
Gallery Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, and Chicago, Illinois, 2008.
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Kavi Gupta, Miami, Florida, 2008.
NEXT Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2008.
Volta4 Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Basel Switzerland, 2008.
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2007.
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 2007.
"...A Landscape Show." Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007.
"A Serious Paradise." Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2007.
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy, 2007.
New Art Dealers Alliance Fair. Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2006 and 2007.
Zoo Fair. Kavi Gupta Gallery, London, England, 2007.
Volta3. Kavi Gupta Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2007.
Art Chicago Fair, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
"Moreover: Practicing Represenation and Abstraction." The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
Summer Group Show. Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
Volta2. Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Summer Group Show, Chicago, Illinois, 2005.
Aqua Art Fair. Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2005.
"Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction From Chicago." University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, 2005.
Nippon Steel, Chicago, Illinois, 2005.
MFA Thesis Show. Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2005.
Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 and 2005.
Peter Miller Gallery Group Show, 2004.
Stray Show. General Store Booth, Chicago, Illinois, 2004.
"Emerging Illinois Artists. McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois, 2004.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2004.
University of Pennsylvania Senior Thesis Show. Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
University of Pennsylvania Juried Fox Gallery Show. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001 and 2003.
Vermont Studio Center Gallery Group Show. Johnson, Vermont, 2002.
University of Pennsylvania Juried Undergraduate Exhibition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999, 2000, and 2002.
Contact
309-341-7423
csherman@knox.edu
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