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Bio

Mary Sherman is an artist, writer and the director of the artists-run TransCultural Exchange, which she founded in Chicago in 1988. She has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, four Creative Capital’s On our Radar recognitions and four Fulbright Specialist Grants, among others. She also has served an artist-in-residence at such institutions as MIT, the Taipei Artist Village and the Cité Internationale des arts. Her works have been shown at numerous institutions, including Taipei’s Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing’s Central Conservatory, Vienna’s WUK Kunsthalle, Trondheim’s Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Science and Technology, Montreal’s International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN)/Oboro, Seoul’s Kwanghoon Gallery and New York’s Trans Hudson Gallery. Additionally, she teaches at Boston College and, in 2010, served as the interim Associate Director of MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Headshots are available [here, Photo Credit: Chrinstine Fenzl] and [here].