About
Sherry Davis hails from Toledo, Ohio in the American Rust Belt where she grew up surrounded by the husks of abandoned and deteriorating factories. Despite coming from a family of factory workers, Davis was just a generation away from farm life. Her grandmothers and aunts, passed on to her both the farmer ethos of thriftiness and the skills of her homesteading feminine ancestors. All of these influences are reflected in her current work.
Davis received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Kent State University, a Master's degree from Brooklyn College and attended at The Art Students League of New York. She has studied with numerous artists, including Sheila Hicks, Barbara Eckhardt, Arline Fisch, Nance O'Banion, Lia Cook, Janice Lessman-Moss, and Deborah Winiarski.
Davis’ artwork has been exhibited at many galleries and institutions, including the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, the Schweinfurth Art Center, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, East End Arts, and the Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea. She recently was awarded a Long Island Grants for the Arts, Artist Fellow and also received a New York State Council of the Arts grant for a major public artwork and accompanying photography exhibition.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2025
Long Island Grants for the Arts, Artist Fellow
2024
New York State Council on the Arts - Creative Individual Grant
11 West Gallery, Riverhead, NY - 1st Place - People's Choice Award (Well Red)
2022
Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery, Riverhead, NY - Mixed Media Curatorial Award (50 Reasons Why)
SOLO SHOWS (*current, **upcoming)
2025
*Harvesting Memories in Blue And Beyond, Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY
2024 - 2025
*Harvesting Memories in Blue, Farm Field, Sound Ave. & Park Rd., Riverhead, NY
Harvesting Memories Gobo Edition, Vine+Sand, Southold, NY
Planetary Alignment, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY
2024
Shadow Matter|Shadows Matter, Art|VS, Southold, NY
Harvesting Memories in Blue - Documentation & Related Works, 11 West Gallery, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY
Dark Matter (semi-solo), Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY
2023 - 2024
Entwined Ovism I: The Transformation, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY
1990
Radical Womb Weavers (semi-solo) - New York, NY
Woven Images on Paper (semi-solo) - New York, NY
1989
Untitled - Kent, OH
Spaces (semi-solo) - Kent, OH
1988
Reweaving Mother Earth and Other Roadside Debris (public art) - Kent, OH
Industrial Hill (semi-solo) - Kent, OH
Landfill - Kent, OH
GROUP SHOWS (current * upcoming**)
2025
Sculpture @ Sylvester Manor, Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY*
Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse: Don’t Be Absurd,
The Contemporary Art Modern Project, North Miami, FL**
SOFT Launch, International Sculpture Center Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA**
FIBER 2025, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
62nd Long Island Artists Exhibition, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
Elsewhere, Art|VS, Southold, NY
Look Up, 11 West Gallery, Riverhead, NY
2024
Gallery 36, Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY
Plant Life, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY
Missing Pieces, Vine+Sand, Southold, NY
Well Red, 11 West Gallery, Riverhead, NY
2023
10x10=100, VSOP Projects, Southold, NY
Gallery 35, Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY
What Awaits Within, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY
Where is the Human?, Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery, Riverhead, NY
Sumer Group Show, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY
Textile Talks - The Entwined Stories of Fiber Art, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY
Recycle 2023, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
Art from Detritus, Viridian Artists, New York, NY
Made in NY, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
Through the Eye of the Needle, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Gallery 34, Textile Study Group of New York, New York, NY
Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Horizon, 11 West Gallery, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY
2022
10x10=100, VSOP Projects, Southold, NY
Southampton Artist Member Show, Levitas Center for the Arts, Southampton, NY
50 Reasons Why: Your Take on the East End, 11 West Gallery, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY
Uncommon Threads, Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY
Wide Open 12, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
Art and Artists for the Ukraine, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
Members Show, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
Dan’s Reimagined, Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery, Riverhead, NY
2021
Holiday Show, Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery, Riverhead, NY
1990
Broadway Open Studio, New York, NY
1989
Christie Street Group, New York, NY
Coaxial Cabled (installation), Kent, OH