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\"\" Sherman Finch<\/strong> is a hybrid artist and designer who investigates interactivity and user experience through both traditional and digital media.<\/p>\n

“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 surrounding 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\u2014the art influences the design, and vice versa\u2014thereby contributing to an ongoing conversation about creativity and the varied ways that we can engage with the world through visual communication.”<\/p>\n

Sherman received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and two Master\u2019s degrees from the Maryland Institute, College of Art: a Multidisciplinary MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art and a MA in Digital Arts and Media. His work has been exhibited, performed, and screened at venues such as Bloomberg Public Art Challenge, Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM), Amarillo Museum of Art (TX), Art League Houston (TX), Artscape (Baltimore), Site:Brooklyn (NY), Govennor\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 SuperPresent and\u00a0 Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists<\/u>, \u00a0produced by Aesthetica, <\/em>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 College of Art & Media at Sam Houston University.\u00a0 Sherman divides his time between Houston, Texas and New York state.<\/p>\n

*full CV available upon request
If you would like to contact him, please go to the “Contact” page.
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– Exhibitions –
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Public Art
2025\u00a0 \u00a0 Bright Lights,<\/strong><\/em> Performance in Flux, Houston, TX
2025\u00a0 \u00a0 HueMan : Shelter,<\/em> <\/strong>Bloomberg Public Art Challenge, 2025
2024\u00a0 \u00a0Bright Lights,<\/strong><\/em> Snow Glow, Downtown Houston + Public Screening, Houston, TX
2019\u00a0 \u00a0 Mechanized Drawing, Post Oak Hotel, Houston, TX <\/strong>
2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Experimental Film and Video Exhibition<\/em>,<\/strong> CICA Museum, South Korea
2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Billboard Creative<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> Los Angeles, CA
2015 \u00a0\u00a0Symphonic Infinitum, <\/em><\/strong>Post Studio Space, Houston, TX
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Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions
2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kinetic Iterations,<\/em><\/strong> The Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, Boulder, CO
2018 \u00a0\u00a0Perceptual Perpetual, <\/em><\/strong>Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2016 \u00a0\u00a0Currents: New Media New Mexico <\/em><\/strong>(part of 2016 Currents New Media Festival),\u00a0Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
<\/span>2015 \u00a0\u00a0Serious Play, <\/em><\/strong>Mary Matteson Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College, Woodlands, TX
2002\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Solo Exhibition,<\/strong><\/em> Engine Performance Space, Baltimore, MD
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International Exhibitions<\/p>\n

2021 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Superpresent Art Magazine,<\/strong> Summer issue
<\/b>2018 \u00a0 \u00a0Delete TV Season 2018<\/em>,\u00a0 <\/strong>Experimental Film Festival, London, UK
2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London Experimental Film Festival<\/em>, <\/strong>Pump House Museum, London, UK
2017 \u00a0 \u00a0Aesthetica Art Prize <\/em><\/strong>(semi-finalist), York Art Gallery, York, UK
2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iteration<\/strong>,<\/em> Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA<\/span>
2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Art Prize<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> Grand Rapids, MI
2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>GIAF,<\/em><\/strong> 4heads, Governor\u2019s Island, NY, NY
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 iDEAS 15<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> The International Digital Media and Arts Assoc, TN
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Disruption, ISEA Conference 2015<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>Simon Fraser University\u2019s School for Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada,\u00a0<\/em>Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n

National Exhibitions<\/p>\n

2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Wall<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Field Work, 36th Artscape <\/em><\/strong>(curated K Domanski), Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digital Fabrication Symposium Exhibition<\/strong>, <\/em>University North Texas, Denton, TX
2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4th National Louisiana Biennial <\/em><\/strong>(curated R Cook), <\/strong>Visual Arts Center, LTU, Ruston, LA
2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Games: From Marbles to Minecraft, <\/em><\/strong>Anne Marie Sculpture Garden Dowell, MD
2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Please Touch,<\/em><\/strong> Target Art Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, DC
2016 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chaos,<\/em><\/strong> Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dada Lives, <\/em><\/strong>UCBA Art Gallery,<\/strong> Cincinnati, OH
2016 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2016 Annual Contemporary Art Survey<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Lincoln Center Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2016 \u00a0\u00a0 Drawing Lines Across Mediums<\/em><\/strong>, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
<\/strong>2015 \u00a0\u00a0 28<\/em><\/strong>th<\/sup><\/em><\/strong> September Competition<\/em><\/strong>, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Texas National 2015<\/em><\/strong>, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
2011 \u00a0 \u00a0New Media Caucus Performance and Video Screening<\/em>,<\/strong> University of the Streets, NYC
2011 \u00a0 \u00a030 Second Spot:<\/em> New Media Caucus Event<\/strong>, School of the Visual Arts, NYC\u00a0(DVD catalogue)<\/p>\n

Regional Exhibitions<\/p>\n

2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Show, Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, SHSU, TX
<\/strong>2015\u00a0 \u00a0 500x Expo,<\/em><\/strong> 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>AMoA<\/em><\/strong> Biennial-600: Sculpture<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Big Show<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Lawndale Art Space, <\/strong>Houston, TX
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What Ought to be: Envisioning the Impossible<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX
2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Second Look<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>Forsythe Gallery, Texas A&M University, TX
2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 500x Expo<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luck of the Draw<\/em>,<\/strong> Diverse Works, Houston, TX
2010 \u00a0\u00a0 More Serious Business,<\/strong><\/em> Fowler Center, Bethlehem, PA<\/p>\n

Other Projects<\/p>\n

2022\u00a0\u00a0 CyberCell, Art Director, Nemours Children’s Hospital SCD VR Research, Delaware
2016 \u00a0\u00a0 iDEAS 16<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> lead curator, The International Digital Media and Arts Assoc, Winona, MN
2015 \u00a0Disruption, <\/em><\/strong>ISEA Conference 2015, artist demo,\u00a0<\/em>Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University\u2019s School for Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada\u00a0
2015 \u00a0\u00a0Institute of Electronic Arts Artist Residency<\/strong>, Alfred University, NY
<\/strong>2015 \u00a0\u00a0Supernova, <\/em><\/strong>co-curator,\u00a0<\/strong>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 \u00a0\u00a0Strange Loop: Interactive Performance,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>musical performance with live video feed, <\/strong>Hershey Park Conference Center, Hershey, PA, and Kanbar Center, Philadelphia University, PA<\/p>\n

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