Sherry Markovitz | Resume

Born in 1947 in Chicago, IL; resides in Seattle, WA

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

One Person Exhibitions
2020
Enclosures, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2016
Time to Take a Walk, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2013
Sculpture and Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2012
Provenance: In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; curator Larry Fong (catalog)
Small Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2010
Stories, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2008
The True Story, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
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)

2003
Devotions
, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)

2001
Throwing Voices
, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1997
Form and Figure, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY

1995
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1992-1993
ARTcurrents 10: Sherry Markovitz, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC;
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; curator Mark Leach (catalog)

1992
Life Forms
, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1987
Documents Northwest: Sherry Markovitz, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Vicki Halper (catalog)

1985
Bejeweled, Bedazzled Trophies, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
U.S. Projects, From Dust to Dust and In Between, Artist’s Space, New York, NY;
organized by Anne Focke (catalog)

1983
Easy Targets
, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1981
Bucks and Does, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1979
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1977
Women: Body, Space and Personal Ritual
, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA; curator Lucy Lippard (catalog)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
OurBluePlanet: Global Visions of Water, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;
curator Pam McClusky

2021
Christine Heindl, Sherry Markovitz, and James Sterling Pitt, Eli Ridgeway Gallery, Bozeman, MT

2017
Living with Art: The Newman Collection, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK

2016
What’s New at TAM?, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2014
In Passionate Pursuit, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy, Portland Art Museum, Portland, curator Bruce Guenther (catalog)

2013
Collecting Contemporary Glass, Corning Museum of Art, Corning, New York, Tina Oldknow (catalog)
Creating the New Northwest, Selections from the Lucy and Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collectiion, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (catalog) Rock Hushka

2012
Provenance: In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; curator Larry Fong (catalog)
Best of the Northwest, Selected Works from the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (catalog) Rock Hushka
Small Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2011
Wild Kingdom, Texas State University, Austin, Texas; curator Mary Mikel Stump
Mars vs. Venus: Images of Male and Female, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle as Collector: Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Turns 40, SAM Downtown Forum Gallery, Seattle, WA

2010-11
About Previews of Things to Come, Prographica, Seattle, WA
Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; curator Leslie Umberger

2010
The Art of Discovery: Celebrating 50 Years of Inspiring Young Minds Through The Junior League of Seattle’s Northwest Art Collection
. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; curator Stefano Catalani (catalog)
Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works: Northwest Mid-Career Artists, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA
Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
A Show of Hands, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; curator Barbara Matilsky (catalog)
Made in U.S.A., Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009
Out of Bounds: Art from the collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; curator Barbara Matilsky (catalog)
The Bead Quiz, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Pam McClusky
New Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Michael Darling
The Toy Show II, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)
I.D.: Individual Demographics, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008
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, CA; curator Michael Duncan.
Heads (dis)Embodied, Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, WA; curator Jim McDonald (essay)

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, WA; curator Karen Kosoglad

2006
Made in Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; 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, Seattle, WA; 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; curator Jennifer Gately
A Northwest Summer, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Susan Rosenberg

2002
Imaging Cosmologies, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2001
Northwest Masters: Selections from the City of Seattle Collection, City Space, Seattle, WA; curator Beth Sellars

2000-2001
Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2000
½: Going Forward, Looking Back, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Trevor Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikawa

1997-2000
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition
, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, FL; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Boise Art Museum, ID; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA; Perspective Gallery, Blacksburg, VA; Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Lamont Gallery, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Arts and Science Center for SE Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA; Del Rio Council for the Arts, Del Rio, TX; curator Sherry Leedy and B. J. Shigaki. Support by Exhibits USA, (catalog, essay by Matthew Kangas)

1997
The Importance of Toys, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Seattle Collects Paintings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Trevor Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikawa
Glass Today: American Studio Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; curator Henry Hawler (catalog)
Collection Highlights: 1945 - Present, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Trevor Fairbrother

1996
Family Matters, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)

1995
Contemporary Beads & Beadwork, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO;
Beyond Tradition, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA; curator Marjorie Hirsh
Breaking Barriers, Portland Art Museum, OR; Madison Art Center, WI; Albany Museum of Art, GA; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; curator Matthew Kangas (catalog)

1994
Wildlife, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA; curator Reesey Shaw (catalog)
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition, Rochester Art Center, Winona State University, MN; Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Spirit of the Bead Ornamentation, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, MO

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, WA

1991
Syncretism
, Alternative Museum, New York, NY; curator Geno Rodriguez (catalog)
Rodeo in Fact and Fiction, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

1990
Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Barbara Johns
New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1989
2-D/3-D: Sculptor's Drawings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; curator Vicki Halper

1988-1991
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art
, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog by Mark Leach);

1988
Contemporary Survey: Visible Presence in the Northwest
, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA

1987-1990
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Fine Arts, Orlando, FL; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan. Curators Marcia Manhart and Tom Manhart (catalog)

1987
Aspects of Drawing Part II: Representation, The Public Art Space, Seattle, WA
Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalog); curator Sarah Roberts-Lafferty (catalog)
The Bead Goes On: Expressions in Contemporary Beadwork, Maude Kearns Art Center, Eugene, OR (catalog)
The Ubiquitous Bead, Bellevue Art Museum, WA; curator Ramona Solberg

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, San Antonio, TX; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; curator Charlotta Kotik (catalog)

1986
Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1985
American Women in Art: Works on Paper, U.N. Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya; curator Cynthia Navaretta (catalog)

1984
Strange, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; curator Chris Bruce (catalog)
Seattle Artists, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, Canada
Surface, Material, Structure, Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA

1983
Self-Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog, essay by Peter Frank)
Bumberbiennale: Art Since ‘Century 21’ 1963-83, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA; curator Matthew Kangas
The American Artist as Printmaker, 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; curator Barry Walker (catalog)
Group Show, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Seattle Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Northwest Today, Brentwood Gallery, St Louis, MO

1982
State of the Arts, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR
Fountain Fine Arts Gallery, Portland, OR
Curated by Linda Farris, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Urban Vernacular, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Animal Imagery, Sebastian Moore Gallery, Denver, CO
Washington Printmakers, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Windfall Press Project, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

1981
Big Paintings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portopia '81, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA; Kobe, Japan; curator Richard Andrews
Seattle Drawings, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
The Farm Project, Arlington, WA
Women Artists from Seattle, Spokane, WA
Big Paintings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Martyrdumb Roscoe Louie Gallery, Seattle, WA

1980
Contemporary Washington State Artists, Cranberry Galleries, Ocean Spray Cranberry, Plymouth, MA
Raconteur: A Private View, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; curator Chris Bruce

1979
19 from 1979, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
Selections from the City's Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Cornish Faculty, Institute for Pedagogical Studies, Vladivostok, USSR

1977-1978
Women: Body, Space and Personal Ritual, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)

Awards, Grants and Commissions
2019 Yvonne Humber, Award for women over 60, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA 2004 Fellowship, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Illustration, Artsfund Sixteenth Annual Poster Award, Seattle, WA
1990 Seattle Artists Grant, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1981 Special Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
1979 Grant for painting, Washington Honors Program, Washington State Arts Commission 1977 Northwest Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975-79 Artist Consultant for Viewlands Substation Project, Seattle Arts Commission, One Percent for Art program

Collections
Bank of America, Seattle, WA
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, NY
Dow Jones Collection, New York, NY
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Junior League, Seattle, WA
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Arts and Design, (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, NY
Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Seattle City Light One Percent for Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Washington Art Consortium: Works on Paper Collection, Bellingham, WA