Sherman Finch is a hybrid artist and designer who investigates interactivity and user experience through both traditional and digital media.
“I am interested in blurring boundaries among various fields of study to make new connections, create meaning, and challenge the viewer to reconsider traditional conventions about the visual experience. My work can be viewed from two sides of the creative spectrum. On one side, I am a designer who has experience working with brands, design systems, and technical and creative solutions for digital interactive-based environments, including projects focused around user-centered approaches. On the other side, I am an artist with a contemporary studio practice who is currently exploring interactivity through sculptural objects with an emphasis in the area of creative interaction, kinetic assemblage, sonification, and conceptual art. Each side informs the other—the art influences the design, and vice versa—thereby contributing to an ongoing conversation about creativity and the varied ways that we can engage with the world through visual communication.”
He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and two Master’s degrees from the Maryland Institute, College of Art: a multidisciplinary MFA at Mount Royal and a MA in Digital Arts and Media. His work has been exhibited, performed, and screened at venues such as Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM), Amarillo Museum of Art (TX), Artscape (Baltimore), Site:Brooklyn (NY), Govennor’s Island Art Fair (NY), Alexandria Museum of Art (LA), Art Interactive (MA), Sarai Media Lab in New Delhi (India), Museum of New Art (Detroit), York Art Gallery (UK), London Experimental Film Festival (UK), among other places. In 2016, Sherman’s work was featured on a billboard in LA as part of the public art project The Billboard Creative. He was also included in a publication Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists, produced by Aesthetica, a British arts and culture magazine. He is a member of the collaborative group, The AKA Collective, co-founder of the LiveLab, and currently teaches in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University. Sherman divides his time between Houston, Texas and New York state.
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– Exhibitions –
Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions
2018 Kinetic Iterations, The Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, Boulder, CO
2018 Perceptual Perpetual, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2016 Currents: New Media New Mexico (part of 2016 Currents New Media Festival), Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2015 Serious Play, Mary Matteson Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College, Woodlands, TX
2015 Symphonic Infinitum, Post Studio Space, Houston, TX
2002 Solo Exhibition, Engine Performance Space, Baltimore, MD
International Exhibitions
2018 Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, South Korea
2018 Delete TV Season 2018, Experimental Film Festival, London, UK
2017 London Experimental Film Festival, Pump House Museum, London, UK (showreel traveled to the Berlin Experimental Film Festival)
2017 Aesthetica Art Prize (semi-finalist slide-show), York Art Gallery, York, UK
2017 Iteration, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2016 Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 GIAF, 4heads, Governor’s Island, NY, NY
2015 iDEAS 15, The International Digital Media and Arts Assoc, TN
2015 Disruption, ISEA Conference 2015, Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, Canada
National Exhibitions
2018 Off the Wall, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2017 Field Work, 36th Artscape (curated by Kim Domanski), The Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017 Digital Fabrication Symposium Exhibition, University North Texas, Denton, TX
2017 4th National Louisiana Biennial (curated by Rachel Cook), Visual Arts Center, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2016 Games: From Marbles to Minecraft, Anne Marie Sculpture Garden Dowell, MD
2016 Please Touch, Target Art Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, DC
2016 Chaos, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Dada Lives, UCBA Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2016 2016 Annual Contemporary Art Survey Exhibition, Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2016 Drawing Lines Across Mediums, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 28th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
2015 Texas National 2015, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
2011 New Media Caucus Performance and Video Screening, University of the Streets, NYC
2011 30 Second Spot: New Media Caucus Event, School of the Visual Arts, NYC (DVD catalogue)
Regional Exhibitions
2015 500x Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 AMoA Biennial-600: Sculpture, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
2015 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Space, Houston, TX
2015 What Ought to be: Envisioning the Impossible, Box 13 Artspace, Houston,TX
2015 A Second Look, Forsythe Gallery, Texas A&M University, TX
2014 500x Expo, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Luck of the Draw, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2010 More Serious Business, Fowler Center, Bethlehem, PA
Other Projects
2016 iDEAS 16, lead curator, The International Digital Media and Arts Assoc, Winona MN
2015 Disruption, ISEA Conference 2015, artist demo, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Institute of Electronic Arts Artist Residency, Alfred University, NY
2015 Supernova, co-curator, Fresh Arts, Houston, TX
(group exhibition on art that is informed by science, featuring MS and MFA students of the Texas A&M Visualization program).
2007 Strange Loop: Interactive Performance, musical performance with live video feed, Hershey Park Conference Center, Hershey, PA and Kanbar Center, Philadelphia University, PA