David benjamin sherry biography

Biography

David Benjamin Sherry (b. 1981, Stony Brook, NY) currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. He received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, and his MFA from Yale University in 2007. A few highlights of his career include exhibiting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, “Ansel Adams In Our Time” (2018), Saatchi Gallery, London UK, “Out of Focus: Photography” 2012), Sotheby’s New York City, “These Days” (2011), MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, “Greater New York 2010” (2010). His work is in permanent collections at The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Arts, Cornell Fine Arts Museum; Charles Saatchi Collection, London; Hood Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Marciano Art Foundation; The Nasher Museum of Art; RISD Museum; Walker Art Center; Wexner Center for the Arts; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

David Benjamin Sherry’s work challenges the established traditions of the American landscape genre, in particular exploring depictions of the American West. His large-scale photographs, rendered in vibrant monochromatic colour, offer an alternative to the hetero-male tradition. Sherry’s work exists at the boundary between the contemporary and the traditional. Using a traditional 8 x 10 inch camera his work expresses a concern for the rapidly changing landscape and the contemporary condition. 

Sherry (born 1981) studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Visual Art before graduating with an MFA in photography from Yale University in 2007. His work has been the subject of the monographs, It’s Time (2010); Quantum Light (2013); Earth Changes (2015); American Monuments (2015) and most recently Pink Genesis (2022). His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, PS1 MoMA, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, and the

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