Shari Mendelson

American, born 1961

BiographyShari Mendelson is a sculptor who utilizes the detritus of the present to create works inspired by the ancient past. She received an MFA (1986) at the State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz; a BFA (1984) at Arizona State University; and studied (1981) at the Munson William Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York. She has been the
recipient of a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2017), four New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (1987, 1997, 2011, 2017), and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (1989). Mendelson has participated in numerous residencies including
Yaddo (2018, 1990), The MacDowell Colony (2018), the Bau Institute/ Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France (2014), UrbanGlass (2014), Corning Museum of Glass (2015), and the Toledo Museum of Art GAPP residency (2017). In 2019, she was a professional artist in residence at the Pilchuck Glass School.

Mendelson has had solo exhibitions at UrbanGlass, Pierogi, Black + Herron Space, and Todd Merrill Studio; NYC, and John Davis Gallery; Hudson, NY. She has participated in numerous two-person shows including a 2017 show at The John Molloy Gallery, NYC, and has been included in gallery and museum exhibitions including The Aldrich Museum, and The Brooklyn Museum. Her work is in the permanent collection of The RISD Museum, Providence, RI, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia. Mendelson’s work has been featured in publications including in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Modern Magazine, Ceramics Now, Glass Quarterly, and NY Arts. She currently (2019) lives and works in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

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