Claire Sherman engages the tradition of landscape painting and the sublime, subverting genre to address our current relationship to the environment and contemporary media. Creating paintings that are seductive yet ambiguous, she disrupts expectations of idealistic imagery, depicting undulating and disintegrating forms. Sherman’s landscapes close in and unravel around the viewer, immersing them in an unstable world that shifts between abstraction and representation. At once particular and ubiquitous, the locations might be anywhere or any environment: tropical, arctic, lunar, or mundane. In defying specificity, they open into psychological spaces.

Claire Sherman received her B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a 2026 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. She has completed residencies at the Terra Foundation for American Art, the MacDowell Colony, the Sharpe-Walentas Sutdio Program, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kimball Art Center, Park City; Patron Gallery, Chicago; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Aurobora, San Francisco; and Hof and Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam. Recent group exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Gallery Seomi, Seoul, The New Gallery, Austria; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. Sherman's work is included in numerous collections including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the UBS collections in London and the United States, and the Margulies Collection in Miami. Sherman is a Professor at Drew University.