Erskine, Clotho, 2016, digital photo, self-portrait.
Raised in Detroit, Sherry Erskine earned a Master of Fine Art in interdisciplinary lens based media from the National University of Ireland Galway [Burren College of Art] and both a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Master of Art Education from Michigan State University.
Sherry’s career in the arts has encompassed a wide array of interdisciplinary experiences beginning with co-founding of One-Twenty in the Shade Art Gallery, Lansing, MI, being a vocalist on two vinyl EPs for Trainable [7X33 and Doubletake]; and co-founding of IGUANA Collaborative in the mid 1970s. In the 1980s she was technical director for The NY Asia Society Performing Arts Center and co-founded GOH Productions with Bonnie Sue Stein, a non-profit international arts services organization in New York City which continues to the present. Sherry’s extensive teaching career includes public school visual art and college level art education. In 2019, Sherry Erskine's work in art education earned a grant from the US Department of State Fulbright Specialist's Program to develop methods and curriculum with faculty at Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design in Kampala, Uganda.
Her solo and collaborative work has been curated and exhibited by national and international organizations in the US - Houston, New York, Miami, Detroit, Grand Rapis, Muskegon and Midland (MI), and Cincinnatti; as well as abroad - Toronto, Prague, Seoul, London, York, Kampala, and Galway.
Her lens-based work with IGUANA Collaborative received funding in 2016-2021 from The Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts through the Bay Area Video Coalition. Her photography was long-listed by the Royal Dublin Society Visual Art Awards in 2017, as well as Aesthetica Art Prize in 2022 and consequently nominated for best experimental film by Aesthetic Short Film Festival.
Recent residencies include:
NORA Norwegian Dance and Cultural Center, collaborative performance to camera, participation online, Skien, Norway;
Samband Íslenskra Myndlistamanna [SIM House], performance to camera, Reykjavík, Iceland;
ARTLab at Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design, Affirmative Art, Kampala, Uganda;
Diani Beach Art Gallery, Affirmative Art and Life Drawing, Kwale, Kenya;
The Royal College of Art and Design, hand painting life size photos, London, UK,
Polli Talu Fine Arts Center, photography, Rame küla, Estonia;
Ox-Bow Ceramics Intensive, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Saugatuck, MI.