Stuart Sherman

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Stuart Sherman was a New York-based visual, film, and performance artist. He was well-known for his Spectacle series of performance art/theatre pieces and he performed at La MaMa several times between 1987 and the mid-90s, including bringing his Sixteenth and Nineteenth Spectacles to the Club at La MaMa.;

Stuart A. Sherman was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1945, and attended Riverdale Country School in New York City. He created an extensive amount of work across various mediums such as performance art, theater, film and video, poetry, and sculpture.

He performed at various places throughout the world such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Festival d'Automne à Paris. Sherman created a large amount of short films and videos that were screened at the New York Film Festival, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Berlin Film Festival. Exhibitions of his performance sets and sculptural objects were shown at the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received numerous awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Village Voice Obie, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sherman died of an AIDS-related illness in 2001 in San Francisco, California.


La Mama Archives; NYPL: https://archives.nypl.org/the/22735
1945 – 2001

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