SHERRY SHIEH

Cluster Crafts Exhibitor | Young Talent Spotlight | 2024

Sherry Shieh is a Chinese American ceramic artist . She is an alumni of Columbia University in New York City, with a BA in architectural design. She previously worked for Maya Lin Studio, Storefront for Art and Architecture and Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles in 2010. She began studying ceramics in 2016 at Pasadena City College headed by professor Keiko Fukazawa.

In 2020, Sherry decided to pursue a MA and moved to London in 2021 to study Ceramics at Central Saint Martins. She graduated with her MA in 2023. Her current exhibition work explores her interest on the intersections of ceramic materiality, collectivist strategy and the role of the artist in contemporary art. She currently resides in London.

“My ceramic practice explores clay’s inherent malleability and materiality and utilizes the ceramic processes of firings and glazing to explore the tension between control and improvisation. My process embraces the accidental and unexpected as a means for creating visceral experiences with themes of fragmentation, discomfort and disquiet.

As an artist, I believe a commitment to craft is a vital tool for creating work that can inspire and seduce in service of asking questions and exploring meaning within the artists’ cultural and political context. For this 2024 Craft Cluster exhibition, I decided to pay homage to Felix Gonzales-Torres’s painting work “Forbidden Colors” first exhibited at the New Museum, NYC in 1988.

I am concurrently running a fundraiser via my personal Instagram page @s.stdio.s to raffle off one of the ceramic pieces inspired by the current political protests to the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. All net proceeds will be donated to The Palestinian Children Relief Fund.”

— Sherry Shieh