Born 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lives and works in Rodeo, California
Education
1979 M.F.A, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1975 B.A, University of California, Davis, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Expo Chicago Art Fair with Walter Maciel Gallery, Chicago, IL
Katherine Sherwood, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (expected)
2023 Cajal's Revenge: Paintings, 1998-2008, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Yumi Janairo Roth and Katherine Sherwood: Trusting Nature, Rare Visions Gallery, Boulder, CO
Katherine Sherwood + Cynthia Ona Innis, Xela Institute of Art, Long Beach, CA
2022 Pandemic Madonnas and Other Views from the Garden, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Fierce Women and Their Flowers, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Brain Flowers, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 In the Yelling Clinic: 2010-2019, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2018 The Interior of the Yelling Clinic, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Katherine Sherwood - A Retrospective Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2014 Ever After: Venuses of the Yelling Clinic, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2013 Brain Heads, Green Chalk Gallery, Monterey, CA
2012 Healers of the Yelling Clinic, Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, CA
2011 He-Charmers, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Gallery Paule Anglim , San Francisco, CA
2008 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Sakata Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
Golgi’s Door, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Hush, Hush, Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California,Berkeley, CA
2006 Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC
2005 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2004 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2003 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2001 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1999 Adaline Kent Award exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 For Dear Life: Art Medicine and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (expected)
Bodies of Work: Art & Healing, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
2023 Encode/Store/Retrieve, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
Body Politics, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Pump Up the Volume, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abstraction, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA
Paule Anglim Archive Room Exhibition, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
piano, piano, Et al., San Francisco, CA
XX: An Exhibition of Women Artists, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Support System, Sidebitch Project Space, Glendale, CA
2022 Opulent Mobility 2022: Re-imagine Disability, Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA and online
Script/Rescript, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Hella Feminist, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Art of Disability Culture, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
2021 The Art of Disability Culture, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2020 Invincible Summer, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2019 Plant Life, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The New Domestics, Monterrey Museum of Art, Monterrey, CA
Conversion: Art and Engineering, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Decennial, The Compound Gallery, Oakland,CA
Het Beste, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
2016 States of Mind, Wellcome Museum, London, UK
Invitational, Washington Reid Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
2015 Dis/Play, Somart Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art of the Lived Experiment, Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, MI
Best Bet, Green Chalk Gallery, Monterey, CA
The Brain, Sun Valley Center for Art, Sun Valley, ID
Opulent Mobility, CSU Northridge Gallery, Northridge,CA
Indigo Mind, Storefrontlab, San Francisco, CA
Frankenstein, Art Division, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Subjective Resonance Imaging, Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference, Seattle, WA
Squeak Carnwath, Hung Lui & Katherine Sherwood, Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
Human Beings I1, Women’s Made Gallery, Chicago, CA
The Artist’s Way, The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
Wynn Newhouse Foundation Winners for 2013, Palitz Gallery, New York City, NY
In Our Hands, HDLU Museum, Zagreb Croatia
2012 Yelling Clinic, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
2011 Medusa’s Mirror, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010 Revealing Culture, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC
Local Treasures: Six Extraordinary Artists, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2009 Through Future Eyes, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Devout Sacrilege, Galerie Studio St., Berlin, Germany
2008 Seeing is Knowing the Body, Carelton College, Northfield,MN
Breath of Difference, Project Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 – 2007 Visionary Anatomy, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC traveled to: Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; University of Delaware Gallery, Newark, DE; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; The Art League of Long Island, Dix Hill, NY; The Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
2006 Human Beings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Inside Outloud, Kempner Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2002 Bay Area Now 3, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Lockes Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Kick Back, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Six Painters, Sonoma State University, Sonoma CA
Medicine in Art, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
1999 Likeness of Being, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography: Reviews
Shankar Vedantam, The Mystery of Beauty, Hidden Brain (podcast), Hidden Brain Media, December, 2023
Amy McDermott, Art and Neuroscience Converge to Explore Disorders of the Brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal, Vol. 120, No. 5, January 25, 2023
Brainard Carey, Katherine Sherwood Interview, Yale Radio, WYBCX, January 18, 2023
Samantha Muscio, A Look into SDSU’s First Disability Themed Art Exhibition: ‘Script/Rescript,’ The Daily Aztec, December 1, 2022
Cynthia Houng, Among the Flowers: Katherine Sherwood at George Adams Gallery, it might be art, November 1, 2022
Alexis Madrigal, Oakland Museum’s “Hella Feminist” Asks Visitors to Challenge, and Expand, Meaning of Feminism, KQED Forum, August 5, 2022
Oliver C. Haug, Oakland Museum of California’s ‘Hella Feminist’ Exhibit Grieves, Celebrates and Provokes, Ms. Magazine, August 2, 2022
Elizabeth Rooklidge, “Love Letter to Katherine Sherwood,” Variable West, January 1, 2021
David Roth, “New Domestics at the Monterey Museum”, Square Cylinder, September 24, 2018
Christopher Michno, “Katherine Sherwood, Walter Maciel,” Artillery Magazine, May-June 2018
Megan Frances Abrahams, “Walter Maciel Gallery - Katherine Sherwood: The Interior of the Yelling Clinic,” Fabrik Magazine, April 23, 2018
David S. Rubins, “Artists With Disabilities,” Editor’s Round Table, Visual Art Source, April 20, 2018
Edward Goldman, “Art Talk: Beauty and the Brain”, KCRW, April 17, 2018
Jody Zellen, “Katherine Sherwood: The Interior of the Yelling Clinic at Walter Maciel Gallery”, Art and Cake, April 6, 2018
Sharon Mizota, “In Katherine Sherwood’s Nude Paintings Disability and Race Enter the Picture”, Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2018
David Roth, “Carnwath, Lui & Sherwood” Square Cylinder, July, 2013
Emily Sohn, “After Brain Damage, For Some the Creative Juices Flow For Some”, Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2011
Noah Stern, “The Neuropsychology of Art”, The Beautiful Brain, January 17, 2010
DeWitt Cheng, “Work Life: The Berkeley Art Center Honors Six Eminent East Bay Artists”, East Bay Express, July 7, 2010
David Roth, “Local Treasures at the Berkeley Art Center”, SquareCylinder.com, July 11, 2010
Kenneth Baker, “Reichman and Sherwood at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 2010
Kenneth Baker, “Local Treasures”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2010
Jonathan Curiel, “Katherine Sherwood: Healers from the Yelling Clinic” SF Weekly, September 15, 2010
David Roth, “Katherine Sherwood at b. sakata garo”, Art Week, July, 2008
Jenny Mayo, “ Tragedy to Triumph”, Washington Times, January 14, 2008
Kathleen Hom, “A Disabled Artist Gets inside Her Own Head”, Washington Post, February 5, 2008
Lynne Fraser, “The Private and Public Nature of Disease: Art as a Transformative Medium”, Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 20, 2008
Sasha Lee, ”Interview: Katherine Sherwood”, Beautiful Decay, October, 2008
Paul Jablow, “Study Of Brain Injury Hints at Roots of Creativity”, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2010
Richard Whittaker, The Conversations: Interviews with Sixteen Contemporary Artists, Whale and Star, 2007, Delray Beach, FLA
Henry Fountain, “What Leonardo Could Have Done With a Cat Scan,” The New York Times, April 19, 2005
Steve Budden, “San Francisco,” Art Papers, September /October 2004
Catherine Kim, CBS Sunday Morning News, “The Realm of Possibility,” aired November 2, 2003
Kenneth Baker, ”Bay Area Painter’s Thematic Center Shifts Toward Common Ground,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2004
Chris Cobb, “Bay Area Now”, Flash Art, October, 2002
Mark Johnstone and Leslie Aboud Holzman, Epicenter, Chronicle Books, 2003, San Francisco, CA
Doug MacCash, “ Hands of Fate,” Times-Picayune, October 26, 2002
Richard Whittaker, “A Conversation with Katherine Sherwood,” Works + Conversations, #6 2002
Monique Beeler, “Neuroesthetics conference: This is your brain on art. The Oakland Tribune January 10, 2002
Susan Emerling, “Her Life Caught up with Her Work,” The Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2002
Kenneth Baker, “Kreb’s abstraction and idealism at Haines,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2001
Rona Marech, “Stroke of Luck,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2001
Lyndon Stambler, “A Near Brush,” People Magazine, December 3, 2001
Barry Wigmore, “Stroke of Genius,” The London Times, July 3, 2000
Michael Kimmelman, “A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch,” The New York Times, March 24, 2000
Witney’s Biennial Selections,” The New York Times, December 8, 1999
Apollinaire Scherr, “Stealing Beauty”, San Francisco Magazine, November 1999
Publications
2019 Katherine Sherwood, Chapter: “Out of the Blue: Art, Disability and Yelling” in John Derby and Alice Wexler, ed., Contemporary Art and Disability Studies, Routledge Press, 2019.
2012 Katherine Sherwood, “How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered My Art”, Frontiers of Neuroscience, April, 2012.
2006 Katherine Sherwood, “Art, Medicine, and Disability,” Radical History Review, Issue 94, Winter 2006, pp. 191-196.
Exhibition Catalogues
2022 Katherine Sherwood: In The Garden of the Yelling Clinic, George Adams, Walter Maciel, and Anglim Trimble Galleries
2016 States of Mind, Wellcome Museum, London, UK
2015 Art of the Lived Experiment, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2011 Yelling Clinic: Art, War and Disability, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2007 Golgi’s Door, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.
2006 Human Beings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2005 Visionary Anatomies, National Academy of Science, Washington DC
Inside Out Loud, Kempner Museum, St. Louis, MO
2004 Katherine Sherwood, CD Rom, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2002 Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA
2001 Katherine Sherwood, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
New American Paintings, number 37, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1999 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 From Within, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1996 Range of Effect, Wake Forrest University Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Scratch, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
1995 Katherine Sherwood: Luck, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Secret of the Golden Flower, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Berkeley, CA
Grants and Awards
2020 Honorary Doctorate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 Wynn Newhouse Award
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2005 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2001 University of California Bridging Grant
1999 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1998 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
University of California Humanities Research Grant
1997 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1992 University of California Humanities Research Grant
1989 NEA Artist Fellowship
Selected Collections
Bank of America
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, GA
The Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Microsoft Corporation
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Missouri, Colombia, MO