Stuart Sherman
Individual
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
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
Taxi Dance, This House is Mine Because I Live in it, The Man in Room 2538, The Book and the Window, Or, Crime and Punishment, To Be or Not to Be, Our Love is Here to Stay, Or, Kiss (A Play For 8 Lips), Scotty Snyder (All Around the Table), Portrait of Australia (Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney) , Musical Interludes, Part I, In a Handbag, or Oscar's Wilde, or The Importance of Being More or Less Earnest, To Catch a Fish, or "Cheese", Musical Interludes, Part II, But What is the Word for "Bicycle"? (A Play in 3 Speeds), To Sneeze or not to Sneeze, Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Für Elise), Yellow Chair, The, Musical Interludes, Part III , To Eat an Apple, Musical Interludes, Part IV, $?, I'm Beginning to See the Flashlight (A Dance), Sukiyaki à la Sherman à la Tokyo, Scotty & Stuart, Sixteenth Spectacle, Stuart Sherman's Nineteenth Spectacle, Red and Green
Joshua Fried & Stuart Sherman (1987), An Evening of Performance and Film Conceived and Directed by Stuart Sherman (1988), An Evening of Performance and Film Conceived and Directed by Stuart Sherman (1988), Alien Comic's Night of Scary Comedy (1992), The Wrong Mistake: Benefit Show (1992), Sixteenth Spectacle (1991), Stuart Sherman's Nineteenth Spectacle (1994), Stuart Sherman's Nineteenth Spectacle (1994), The Neu Revue (1994), Red and Green (1995)
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