Sherry Markovitz | Resume

Born in 1947 in Chicago; resides in Seattle.

Education
1975 MFA Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle
1969 BA Ceramics and Art Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

One Person Exhibitions
2008 Shimmer: Paintings and Sculptures, 1979-2007, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; curators Chris Bruce and Keith Wells, (book)
The True Story: Sculpture and Paintings on Silk, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2003 Devotions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
2001 Throwing Voices, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1997 Form and Figure, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
1992-1993 ARTcurrents 10: Sherry Markovitz, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC;
1992 Life Forms, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1987 Documents Northwest, Seattle Art Museum (catalog, essay by Vicki Halper )
1986 U.S. Projects, Artist's Space, New York; organized by Anne Focke (catalog)
1985 From Dust to Dust and In Between, Artist’s Space, New York
1983 Easy Targets, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1981 Bucks and Does, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1979 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1977 Women: Body, Space and Personal Ritual, and/or Gallery, Seattle; curated by Lucy Lippard (catalog)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Heads (dis)Embodied, Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Fathom, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX2008
No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collection, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; curator Vicki Halper
Good Doll Bad Doll, Armory Center for the Arts; Pasadena; curator Michael Duncan.
2007-2009 Contrasts: A Glass Primer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; curator Vicki Halper (catalog)
2007 Drawing in the New Year: Exploring Memory and Ancestry at the Jewish New Year, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle; curator Karen Kosoglad
2006 Made in Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, curator Susan Rothenberg
2005 Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA; curator Deborah Paine
2004 Transformed by Fire: Sculpture in Glass from the Collection of Jack and Becky Benaroya, Seattle Art Museum; curator Margery Aronson
Shakespeare as Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland; curator Josine Ianco-Starrels
The Hunt: Ritual and Narrative, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
Move, Rochester Art Center, MN; curator B.J. Shigaki
A Northwest Summer, Seattle Art Museum; curator Susan Rosenberg
2002 Imaging Cosmologies, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2001 Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, Seattle Art Museum, WA
2000-2001 2000 ½: Going Forward, Looking Back, Seattle Art Museum; curated by Trevor Fairbrother
1997-2000 Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Boise Art Museum, ID; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Irvine Art Center, Irvine, CA; Leedy Voulkos Art Center and Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; curated by Sherry Leedy and B. J. Shigaki. Support provided by Exhibits U.S.A., (catalog, with essay by Matthew Kangas)
1997 The Importance of Toys, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York Seattle Collects Paintings, Seattle Art Museum; curated by Trevor Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikawa Glass Today: American Studio Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art; curated by Henry Hawler (catalog) Collection Highlights: 1945 - Present, Seattle Art Museum; curated by Trevor Fairbrother
1996 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
Family Matters, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
1995 Contemporary Beads & Beadwork, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO; Portland Art Museum
Breaking Barriers, Portland Art Museum, OR; Madison Art Center, WI; Albany Museum of Art, GA; American Craft Museum, New York; curated by Matthew Kangas (catalog)
Beyond Tradition, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA; curated by Marjorie Hirsh
1994 Wildlife, California Center for the Arts, Escondido; curated by Reesey Shaw (catalog)
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN; Paul Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN
The Spirit of the Bead Ornamentation, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis
1993 The Shell Game: The Button as Craft, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
Washington: Voices in Contemporary Sculpture, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
1992 Drawings by Sculptors, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1991 Syncretism, Alternative Museum, New York; curated by Geno Rodriguez (catalog)
Rodeo in Fact and Fiction, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK
1990 Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Museum; curated by Barbara Johns
New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1989 2-D/3-D: Sculptor's Drawings, Seattle Art Museum; curated by Vicki Halper
1988-1991 Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,Sheboygan, WI;
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (catalog, essay by Mark Leach)
1988 Contemporary Survey: Visible Presence in the Northwest, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI (catalog, essay by Mark Leach)
1987-1990 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; circulate to: San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Oakland Museum, CA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Fine Arts, FL; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan. c Curated by Marcia Manhart and Tom Manhart. (catalog)
1987 Aspects of Drawing Part II: Representation, The Public Art Space, Seattle
Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, OH (catalog)
The Bead Goes On: Expressions in Contemporary Beadwork, Maude Kearns Art Center, Eugene, OR (catalog)
The Ubiquitous Bead, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
1986-1988 Third Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; New Orleans Contemporary Art Center; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; San Antonio Museum of Art; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; San Jose Museum of Art (catalog)
1986 Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1985 American Women in Art: Works on Paper, Nairobi, Kenya; curated by Cynthia Navaretta (catalog)
1984 Strange, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; curated by Chris Bruce (catalog)
Seattle Now, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, Canada
Surface, Material, Structure, Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle
1983 Self-Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalog, essay by Peter Frank)
The American Artist as Printmaker, 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY;
curated by Barry Walker (catalog
Bumberbiennale: Art Since ‘Century 21’ 1963-83, Seattle Center, Seattle; curated by Matthew Kangas
Group Show, University of Idaho, Moscow
Seattle Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Pacific Northwest Today, Brentwood Gallery, St Louis, MO
1982 Urban Vernacular, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Animal Imagery, Sebastian Moore Gallery Denver
Washington Printmakers, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Windfall Press Project, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 Big Paintings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
Portopia '81, Kobe, Japan; curated by Richard Andrews for Port of Seattle
Seattle Drawings, Seattle Pacific University, WA
The Farm Project, Arlington, WA
1980 Contemporary Washington State Artists, Cranberry Galleries, Ocean Spray Cranberry, Plymouth, MA
Raconteur: A Private View, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; curated by Chris Bruce
1979 Nineteen Artists in Seventy-Nine, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
Cornish Faculty, Institute for Pedagogical Studies, Vladivostok, USSR
1976-1977 30 Years of American Printmaking: 20th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
(catalog, essay by Gene Baro)

Awards, Grants and Commissions
1990 Seattle Artists Grant, Seattle Arts Commission
1981 Special Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle
1979 Grant for painting, Washington Honors Program, Washington State Arts Commission
1977 Northwest Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle
1975-79 Artist Consultant for Viewlands Substation Project, Seattle Arts Commission, One Percent for Art program

Selected Collections
American Craft Museum, New York
Bank of America, Seattle
Seattle City Light 1% for Art Collection
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Dow Jones Collection, New York
Junior League, Seattle
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
SAFECO Insurance, Seattle
Seattle Art Museum
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle