Stuart A. Sherman (1945–2001) was an American performance artist, playwright, filmmaker, videographer, poet, essayist, sculptor, and collagist. Akin to the many distinct forms his art took, Sherman's work found an international audience. Although perhaps most at home with his New York contemporaries, he performed, exhibited, and lectured throughout the U.S. (San Francisco, Cambridge, Boston, Indianapolis, Chicago) and abroad (Germany, the Netherlands, France, Wales, Japan, Australia). Stuart Sherman received numerous awards for his work, including a Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Obie, a MacDowell fellowship, an Asian Cultural Council grant, a DAAD grant for residency in Berlin, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Portrait by John Matturri courtesy Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: the Works of Stuart Sherman
