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1956-58 Wellesley College (Major – Art History)
1958-59 Ecôle du Lourvre and Atelier Ziegler, Paris (Junior Year program, art history)
1959-60 San Francisco Art Institute
1962-65 San Francisco Art Institute
   
Member Royal Canadian Academy, CARFAC
   
One-Woman Exhibitions
2007 Sherrard Grauer, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, The Union Club of British Columbia, Victoria BC.
2006 Points of View, The Moore Gallery, Victoria BC
2004 2 1/2 Dimensions, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC.
2003 Second Growth, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver B.C.
2001 Forest Coast, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 Shorelines (II), Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, (curated by Maria Tippett; catalog)
1997 Shorelines, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992 Meetings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1989 Painting and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1987 Natural Events/Take Off: Point of Departure and Mode of Travel,
Art Gallery of South Okanagan, Penticton, BC (two person show with Carole Sabiston)
Sherry Grauer: Certain Paths, The Floating Curatorial Gallery at Women in Focus, Vancouver, BC (curated by Jill Pollack, Catalog) Recent Works, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985 Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1983 Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1980 Sherry Grauer, So Far…, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (Catalog)
1978 Paintings and Sculptures, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Catalog)
1976 Eleven Drawings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1975 Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1973 Sherry Grauer Instant Prints, Véhicule Art Inc., Montreal, Quebec
Two Person Show, Gallery 217, Bellingham, WA
1970 Sherry Grauer, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1969 Sherry Grauer, Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1968 Oeuvres de Sherry Grauer, Loyola Bonsecours Centre, Montreal, Quebec
1967 Sherry Grauer and Other People, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1965 Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1964 Drawings and Paintings, Mary Frazee Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
Paintings, Gordon Baker Clinic, Seattle, WA
   
Group Exhibitions
2005 Vanities/Vanités, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Plastic Universe, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1998 Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1998 Artful Transformations, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1993 Artropolis ’93, Woodward’s downtown, Vancouver, BC
1986 Making History, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985 Still Life, Snakes and Ladders, and Bogeymen, Marcia Pitch and Sherry Grauer, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC Sculpture ’85, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC
1984 BC Women Artists, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (curated by Nicholas Tuele)
1983 Vancouver Art and Artists: 1931-83, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1979 Assemblages and Equivalents, UBC AMS Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC
1978-79 Paperworks, BC Government Traveling Exhibition, European Tour
1978 Women In Art, SFU Gallery, SFU, Burnaby, BC
1977 Making Marks, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Regina, Sask For the Birds, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC
1976 Current Pursuits, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
West Coast Waves, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1974 Some Canadian Women Artists, National Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Group Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1973 Nine Out of Ten: Survey of Contemporary Canadian Art, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
Pacific Vibrations, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Group Show, Pacific Northwest Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Vibrations, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1971 Art from Canada’s West Coast originated and circulated across Canada by the
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1969 People in the Park: Figurative Sculpture of the Sixties, Rothman’s Gallery, Stratford, Ontario
1968 Younger Vancouver Sculptors, UBC Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Recent Accessions, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Recent Accessions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Traveling Exhibition, The Canadian Group of Painters
1967 10th Annual Winnipeg Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joy and Celebration, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, BC
JAMM Group Show, Stable Gallery, Museum of Fin Arts, Montreal, Quebec
Northwest Drawings, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Little Funkie Objects, Gallery West, Burnaby, BC. Curated by Michael Morris
Canadian Art Exhibition, Canadian Pavilion, Expo ’67, Montreal, Quebec
1966 Annual Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Traveling Exhibition, The Canadian Group of Painters
1965 Festival Exhibition, Charlottetown, PEI
History of BC Art, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Young Contemporaries, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
1963 New Talent, BC, UBC Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1964 Young Contemporaries, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
   
Commissions
2003 Meredith, for Frankie Robinson, Vancouver. Lifesize portrait, stainless steel mesh.
2003 Flirting Seals, North Growth Management. Stainless steel mesh.
2001 Sea Dragons, Foreshore Projects. Stainless steel mesh, approx.35’x8’x5’.
1998 Requiem, North Growth Management. Wood and mirror relief
1997 Herring Ball, Granville Island Sportfishing and Model Ship Museum. Stainless steel sculpture
1992 Sockeye, Foreshore Projects. Nine foot stainless steel mesh.
1990 Constellation of Cygnus, Wesgar Industries. Metal Sculpture
1989 Kurt Weill Cabaret, Music in the Morning Concert Society. Set design and construction
1988 Song of This Place a play by Joy Coghill, Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Set Design
1986 Time Out of Mind, BC Ballet Production of Brian MacDonald’s work, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC and Banff, Alberta 1993. Set design and construction
1985 KniteQuest, Peter Eliot Weiss’ play. DuMaurier Festival, New Play Centre. Set design and construction
1984 Centaur, for Mr. & Mrs. H. Boyce of Vancouver, BC
1978 The Brave Birdmen, Ministry of Transport, Transport Canada Training Institute,
Cornwall, Ontario. Finished and installed in March, 1980.
Crows, Seagulls, Swallows, Department of Public Works, Ottawa, Ontario
installed in the Federal Building, Powell River, BC. Three flocks of birds.
1976 Habitat Banners: Burrard Street Bridge, City of Vancouver
1973 Football Star, Centennial Hotel, Vancouver, BC. Installed in the lounge.
1972 Sky with Swimmers, Dr F. A. Kaempffer, installed in the old physics library,
U.B.C., Vancouver, BC. Now owned by Surrey Art Gallery.
1969 Islands or Clouds, BC. World Wide International Travel Office, Vancouver, BC.
Acrylic on Canvas, and mylar on plywood. Relief mural.
   
Positions Held
2006 Artist in Residence at The Artist Project, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC.
2004 Member if the Inaugural Jury of the Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award.
2001 Visiting Artist Scholar, Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, March 1 - 21
1999-2000 Jury of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts’ Canada-wide exhibition, Arts 2000
1994 Jury (one of two jurors in each region) for the assembly of B.C. Arts Councils 13th Annual Regional Exhibition
1993-1994 Member of the Acquisition Committee, Vancouver Art Gallery
1980 Member if the founding board of directors, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Centre (now Science World)
1978-1979 Member, B-Grant jury,Visual arts grants, Canada Council
1975-1976 Hon. Secretary and member of the board of directors, Vancouver Art Gallery
   
Public Collections
  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
  British Columbia Government Collection
  Bull Housser & Tupper, Vancouver, British Columbia
  Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
  Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
  City of Grand Forks, B.C.
  Esso Canada Resources, Alberta
  Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
  Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal Quebec
  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
  Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario
  Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia
  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia


   

 

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