Nationality American | Known for Generative art | |
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Born 10 April 1925 ( 1925-04-10 ) Newark, Ohio Education California College of the Arts (1959–1960) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
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Sonia Landy Sheridan (Newark, Ohio, April 10, 1925), is an American artist, founder of a generative art department called Generative Systems, professor emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and editor of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology.
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Biography
Sonia Landy Sheridan was born on April 10, 1925, in Newark, Ohio. She made her studies in visual arts at the Hunter College in New York City between 1941 and 1945. Between 1946 and 1947, she attended Columbia University and, between 1948 and 1949, she finished her postgraduate studies at the University of Illinois. Also, she studied at the San Jose City College in 1952.
In 1957, she moved with her husband, James E. Sheridan, to Taiwan and, during their stay, she attended the National Taiwan Normal University. In 1961, back in the United States, she finished her studies in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts
In the 1960s, she began to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded in 1970 a new department called Generative Systems, which focused on the investigation of artistic use of new technologies emerging in that period, for example the world's first color photocopier, the 3M Color in Color Machine. In the meantime, she continued with her artwork, and in 1974 she made an exhibition at the MoMA of New York together with Keith Smith.
Her artistic works were shown for the first time in Europe, within the collective exhibition Electra, made in the year 1983, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In this exhibition she presented the first image manipulation software for artists, Lumena artware of TimeArts. Three years later, her work was shown for the first time in Spain, together with other artists such as Nam June Paik, Marisa Gonzalez, Paloma Navares, Marina Abramovic, John Cage... at the inaugural collective exhibitions of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid titled "Procesos: Cultura y nuevas tecnologías", which offered a compilation of different artistic approximations by the use of the new means that arose in the contemporary art during the second half of the 20th century, and in which she presented, apart of her work, the graphic computer invented by her student of SAIC, John Dunn, the EASEL software and Time Arts PC computer. With this system, during a month, she made a workshop open to all the public at the exhibitions rooms of the Museo Reina Sofía.
Sonia Sheridan had a solo show "The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan" exhibition opening in October, 2009 at The Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth College, Hanover (New Hampshire).
In 2013 at the Festival of Art and Visual Culture in Berlin, Transmediale, the curator of the exhibition of the festival, Jacobo Lillemose, selected Sonia Sheridan with her solo show "Exhibition Imaging with Machine Processes". The Generative Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan as a researcher and pioneer in new media not only in North America but throughout the world, as well as for her teaching at SAIC, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her work forms part of big collections like the Telefónica Foundation of Spain, or The Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, New Hampshire), and all the documentation on her long artistic career can be consulted in the Foundation Daniel Langlois of Montreal.