laurie sheridan
ARTIST BIO
HONORS
2026 Residency and Exhibition, Lithuanian Artists Association Dailininky,
Palingos Lithuania
2025 Studio Residency and materials grant, MMAQ / Centre Materia /
Maison des Metiers d’Art de Quebec, Quebec City, Canada
2024 Residency, Castle Hill Truro Center for the Arts, MA
2023 Residency, Le Festival D’Arte Contemporain, Roquebrune-sur-Argens, France
2022 Award, “Elemental Effects”, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, New Jersey
2022 Residency, Bargemon, France for Le Festival D’Arte Contemporaine
2018 Travel and Materials Grant, Swiss Government; Rising Up-Flowing Down,
Vienna, Austria
2017 Award, Most Wearable, “Surreal Fashion”Museum of Art - Deland, Florida
2016 Residency, Serde Artists Lab; Aizpute, Latvia
2014 Residency, Alumni Invitational; Atlantic Center For The Arts;
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2009 Award, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild; Kleinert-James Gallery, Woodstock, New York
2008 Award, Belskie Museum of Art; Closter, New Jersey
2008 Award, Osceola Arts; Women’s Caucus For Art, Matriarchs and Madonnas
Kissimmee, Florida
2001 Travel Grant: Zimbabwe; sponsored by Africa 2000 / Art Safari; Harari, Zimbabwe
1999 Printmaking Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop; Rosendale, New York
EXHIBITIONS, selected
2026 Annual Sculpture Exhibit, Bennington Museum, Vermont
2-year Outdoor Exhibition, Palangos Dailé Park, Palangos, Lithuania
Triennial Outdoor Exhibition, Unison Sculpture Park, New Paltz, NY
2025 Tilly Foster Farm and Collaborative Concepts, Two works, Brewster New York
Historic Red Mills Park with Collaborative Concepts, Mahopac, New York
2024 Ocala 2-year Outdoor Sculpture Competition Biennial, Tuscawilla Art Park, Ocala, FL*
Fresh Air Sculpture Exhibition, Gloucestershire, UK
2023 Art In The Orchard Biennial. sculpture, Easthampton, MA*
The Enchanted Garden. sculpture, Jordoigne, Belgium
Le Festival D’Arte, video presentation with Hangaroh Collective. Stephen Paul, curator
Roquebrune-sur-Argens, France**
2017 Hapgood-Wright Forest “Art Ramble” Musquatequid Arts and Environment,
Umbrella Arts, outdoor sculptures inspired by Thoreau. Concord, MA
Museum of Art Deland, “Wearable Art 6; Surreality” fashion event, award. Deland, FL
2018 Vienna Watertower, "Rising Up, Flowing Down" with the Hangaroh Collective, group exhibition with performances,
video and sculpture installation .Vienna, Austria. ***
2016 Sculpture Now at The Mount, Edith Wharton Estate; “Remix” outdoor culpture exhibition with artists talk,
curated by Ann Jon. Lenox, MA *
The Hangar- “In-Between” installation sponsored by Serde Artists Lab. Group project with Hangaroh Collective
(slide discussion) Aizpute, Latvia
2010 Curious Matter Gallery; The Ecstatic (tv interview) New Jersey
2009 St. Joseph's College; "Waves of Change" activist-inspired art and photography
video presentation and artists talk to students Brooklyn, NY
Kleinert-James Gallery, "Byrdcliffe Guild" Woodstock, NY (award)
2008 Museum of Florida Art; "Florida Biennial IV", encaustic painting Deland, Florida
Osceola Arts Center, "Matriarchs and Madonnas" honoring the female divine. FL
2007 New York Public Library, 52nd street, NYC Solo installation "In Memorium: Honoring
Our Women In Uniform Who Have Died In Iraq”; Photo-encaustic portraits, timeline,
patriotic memorabilia (radio interview)
2003 Sonoma Academy, Solo exhibition: Forty-painting retrospective. Santa Rosa,
California. Slide presentation and artist’s talk to student body.
Alice Arts Center, "ZImbabwe Art Safari Exhibition and Fundraiser" Oakland, CA**
2000 Bade Museum/ UC Berkeley, “Temples - Malta, Images and Inspiration” (artists talk)
California Institute of Integral Studies, Curator Tricia Graeme, San Francisco, CA
Scottish Rites Temple, “Temples – Malta” Event with performances Oakland, CA
1999 A.R.T. Art Resources Transfer, "Primordia" Solo Exhibition,
Curated by Bill Bartman, New York, NY
COLLABORATIONS
2020 - 2024 Hangaroh Collective, Latvia https://hangarohcollective.wordpress.com
with artists Bartaku (Belgium), Seila Fernandez Arconada (Spain),
Anne Glassner (Austria)
2010 - 2012 Little Rose Shelter, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,
During employment teaching ESL: Taught art and created collaborative project
with teenagers in at-risk girls home
EDUCATION
2021-2025 Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
2019 SUNY State University New Paltz, MFA program NY
2005 Associates Degree in Animation, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1982 Bachelors Fine Art, Parsons School of Design / The New School, New York, NY
1979 Boston University, Fine Art and Political Science Boston, Mass
1978 Maryland Institute, College of Art Baltimore, Maryland
MEDIA selected
2010 “The Ecstatic” television interview, New Jersey News
2008 Daytona Beach News-Journal; 'Art Fresh From Florida - Biennial IV review
2007 WBAI / Pacifica ; Radio interview with censored artist,w/ Rebecca Miles
SCENIC ARTIST / PROPS FABRICATION PROFESSIONAL
Worked on numerous films, commercials and television programs. United Scenic Artists Union, New York City, Local 829 IATSE, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792207/
ORGANIZATIONS
14 Sculptors artists’ group. New York, NY 2026
Ether Park, non-profit sculpture park in Kingston, NY. Curator 2022 - current
New York Artists Circle member, from 2005
Esopus Environmental Board, Esopus New York Board of Directors 2017- 2019
Visual AIDS For The Arts, New York, NY Board of Directors 1998 – 2000
cash honorarium*
* with residency award
*** cash award
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