Biography from AskART:
| Sonia Landy Sheridan, born in Newark, Ohio, is a media artist and Professor Emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she taught from 1961 to 1980. She earned an A.B. Degree from Hunter College in 1945, studied at Columbia University from 1946 to 1948, and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1960. She also spent time in Taiwan and Tokyo and later resided in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Her work is in major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Chicago Art Institute; the National Gallery of Art, Canada; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; the Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain; the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
She is a Guggenheim Fellow and three-times National Endowment for the Arts grantee. Sheridan has shaped her art and teaching on the premise that art, science and technology function as intertwining systems of thought. |
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