Whitney Sherman
BIOGRAPHY
Award-winning illustrator/educator/entrepreneur Whitney Sherman was trained as a photographer, and has held positions as an advertising art director, publications designer and art director; VP/Creative Director; illustrator; and educator in Graphic Design (11 yrs) and in Illustration (19 years) concurrently.
Presently Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at MICA; Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print @ MICA; Faculty of MFA ILP Thesis; Proprietor of Whitney Sherman Illustration, and Pbody Dsign.
On March 18, 2021 she received the prestigious “Distinguished Educator in the Arts” award from the Society of Illustrators/NY.
ws@whitneysherman.com
Exhibitions | Lectures | Panels
Selected Group & Solo Exhibitions
32nd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition
Gormley Gallery/Notre Dame of Maryland University/Baltimore
Juried by Alex Ebstein, Director of Exhibitions and Curator at Goucher College and Co-Owner of RESORT Baltimore, this yearly show included my print, “Time is Tricky”.
31st National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition
Gormley Gallery/Notre Dame of Maryland University/Baltimore
Juried by Doreen Bolger, former Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, this yearly show included my print, “Blackbirds”.
Drawn to Purpose
Library of Congress/Washington, DC
This exhibit highlighted pieces from the Library of Congress’ permanent collection and showcased American women in the fields of illustration and cartooning.
Illustration: Women Making a Mark
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center/Indianapolis, IN
The University of Indianapolis exhibition showed the diverse work of 16 contemporary female illustrators.
Whitney Sherman / Rebecca Bradley
Beihang University/Beijing, China
This exhibit was part of a 10-day residency at Beihang University and included a lecture and week-long workshop co-taught with Rebecca Bradley.
Labor of Line
Gallery Nucleus/Los Angeles
This exhibit was of attendees of ICON6 and coincided with the conference.
Illustration Next
Case[werks] Gallery/Baltimore
This exhibit surveyed new directions in illustration practiced by MICA alum.
Art for Japan
Gallery Nucleus/Los Angeles
This exhibit was a fund-raiser for victims of the tsunami.
The Last Picture Show
Delavan Art Gallery/Syracuse, NY
This exhibit included past faculty from the Syracuse Masters of Art in Illustration program.
Between the Lines : Propaganda in Contemporary Illustration
Center for Creative Studies Center Gallery/Detroit, MI
This exhibit explored direction in editorial illustration.
Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation
Susan & Peter Barnett Gallery/Santa Monica College, CA
Studio Fly Contemporary Art Gallery/Charleston, SC
This traveling exhibition represented selected work from the book, Dialogue. See the Book section of this site for images and book links.
Beyond Commerce
Weber State University/Ogden, UT
This exhibition included works I had made into oversized prints. At the time I was just exploring what scale would do with the meaning and impact of my work.
Women in Illustration : Contemporary Visions and Voices
Norman Rockwell Museum/Stockbridge, MA
This exhibit included the top female illustrators working today.
Picturing Health
Norman Rockwell Museum/Stockbridge, MA
Florence Griswold Museum/Old Lyme, CT
Mobile Museum of Art/Mobile, AL
Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Atlanta, GA
El Paso Museum of Art/El Paso, TX
Heritage Museums & Gardens/Sandwich, MA
Mobile Museum of Art/Mobile, AL
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts/Kalamazoo, MI
This traveling exhibit contains contemporary illustrators work on health topics shown side by side with works by Norman Rockwell.
The Art of the Stamp
National Postal Museum/Washington, DC
This exhibition represents a cross-section of illustrated stamps with stories behind them. See the Special Projects section of this site for more in-depth information.
Vinylmore
Atomic Pop/Baltimore, MD
This is a group show of customized Munny toys ranging in size and story. I really enjoy doing one each year as a 3D challenge to my 2D studio world.
Twenty Years of Cricket Covers
Art Institute of Chicago/Chicago, IL
My cover was for the February issue of Cricket Magazine. I love working with Ron McCutchan, the art director and was honored to be included in this show.
Self-Identity
Israel Museum/Jerusalem
Axis Gallery/Tokyo
The Design Museum/London
This exhibition included noted designers from around the world showing examples of their self identity through letterheads and other promotionals, but also self identity through the kind of work they make.
Selected Lectures & Panel Discussions
Library of Congress | Panel
Drawn to Purpose
Video of March 15, 2018 panel discussion moderated by exhibition curator Martha H. Kennedy.
Beihang University | Lecture
Playing With Sketches
Norman Rockwell Museum | Lecture
Work/Play
Society for History of Graphics | Lecture
Image Harvest
Delaware College of Art & Design | Lecture
Work/Play
The Hallmark Symposium, University of Kansas | Lecture
Retrospective Survey
Syracuse University Master Program | Lecture
Retrospective Survey
Miami Ad School | Lecture
Retrospective Survey
Syracuse University Masters of Illustration Lecture Series | Lecture
25 yrs of Illustration
Educators Symposium at the Society of Illustrators NY | Lecture
Drawn to Letterforms
Educators Symposium at the Society of Illustrators NY | Lecture
Babblelab at MICA
Educators Symposium at the Society of Illustrators NY | Panel
The New Business of Illustration
The New Business of Illustration Handout Download