Sherri Tan
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Sherri Tan is an American figurative artist whose work includes collage, sculpture, photography, books and multimedia. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the US including the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
, Ft. Lauderdale; Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, NY; Coral Spring Museum of Art, Brevard Museum, Polk Museum, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh; Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. Tan has also been active in designing large-scale sets and artwork for opera and multimedia works including settings for a touring stage production of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde presented in the US and China and artworks for composer Thomas Sleeper
's operas "Small Change", "River of Shifting Sands" and "The Sisters Antipodes".
Sherri Tan's work is collected by public, private and corporate collections including the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry and the Miami-Dade County Public Library Collection. She has received various awards including the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts' three-year CAVA fellowship, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist grant and three Artist Access grants from Tigertail Productions. In 2001, Tan received a grant award for writing an original story and opera libretto, River of Shifting Sands, which premiered in Portland, Oregon. Tan is also a professional paintings conservator. Sherri Tan earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Miami in 1996 and a B.A. degree for multi-media art from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1987.
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
The Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is located in a modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a wing added in 2001...
, Ft. Lauderdale; Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, NY; Coral Spring Museum of Art, Brevard Museum, Polk Museum, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh; Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. Tan has also been active in designing large-scale sets and artwork for opera and multimedia works including settings for a touring stage production of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde presented in the US and China and artworks for composer Thomas Sleeper
Thomas Sleeper
Thomas M. Sleeper is a modern American composer and conductor. His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'. He is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater...
's operas "Small Change", "River of Shifting Sands" and "The Sisters Antipodes".
Sherri Tan's work is collected by public, private and corporate collections including the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry and the Miami-Dade County Public Library Collection. She has received various awards including the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts' three-year CAVA fellowship, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist grant and three Artist Access grants from Tigertail Productions. In 2001, Tan received a grant award for writing an original story and opera libretto, River of Shifting Sands, which premiered in Portland, Oregon. Tan is also a professional paintings conservator. Sherri Tan earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Miami in 1996 and a B.A. degree for multi-media art from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1987.
External links
- Artist's website http://sherritan.com/index.html