sheri crider, a queer visual artist and civil rights dreamer, attended the University of Arizona on a fine arts scholarship after multiple years of addiction and incarceration.
sheri crider is dedicated to works at the intersection of experience, empathy and equity. The Sanitary Tortilla Factory is a platform for artists and community created by sheri crider. The curatorial practices and programming of STF intentionally undermine structural inequities both in the art world and community.
sheri crider lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico
AWARDS/GRANTS
2018 NEA Our Town grant for social justice project
@ Sanitary Tortilla Factory
2017 Right of Return USA Formerly incarcerated artist fellowship
2016 FULCRUM/Andy Warhol Foundation via 516Arts
2014 Albuquerque FunD Grant for Adaptations exhibition
2011 Albuquerque Community Foundation Grant
2002 1% Public Art commission awarded for Tools of Heroism
2001 An Uncommon Legacy Foundation, New York, NY
1997 Orton Purchase Award
EXHIBITIONS
2020 University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
2019 Turner Carroll Gallery Santa Fe
HBO OG Experience, NY, NY
2018 The University of New Mexico Art Museum Albuquerque, NM
Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain-Plains Region,
Juror: Jodi Throckmorton
Flight 01 Immigration pop up shop, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Obsolescence and Opulence, OutPost Performance Space, Albuquerque
-Personal Cartographies, project with girls in metro county detention,
African American Performing Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Alcoves 15/17, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
-On the Edge of Your Seat: Chairs for the 21st Century. Jurors:
Nora Atkinson, Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum Renwick Gallery & Susie Silbert. Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Site Scholars, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
-the Human Drift, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Survival Tactics, Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette, IN
2012 Survival Tactics, ISEA Conference, Albuquerque, NM
2011 dis*placement. Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 Sculpture As Analogy to Landscape. Curated by Steve Barry,
Albuquerque, NM
Capitalism: Fueled by Greed & Envy. SCA Contemporary Art,
Albuquerque, NM Included collaborating performance
Valerie Martinez, Jasmine Cuffee, Renee Gregorio & Maureen Seaton.
2008 Cerca Contigua (Border Fence). Permanent Installation at The Land/An Art Site.
Albuquerque, NM
2007 Engendered Species. California State University,
Gatov & Merlino Galleries.Long Beach, CA.
Engendered Species. Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2006 A Good Fence: 1913-2005. The Land/An Art Site,
Mountainair, NM (permanent installation)
2004 Lessons in Being. Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, NM.
Exploring Gender Roles.
Seton Hall University, NJ,
Juror, Sue Scott. Pleasureworks II. SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA.
PUBLICATIONS
PBS Newshour, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fellowship-allows-formerly-
incarcerated-artists-to-push-for-criminal-justice-reform, March, 18.
Jordan Eddy, The Individualists,THE Magazine, January, 18.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/sheri-crider, Corinne Segal, July 23, 17.
Kathryn Davis, The Pro-Activists of Art,Trend Magazine, Spring, 16.
Material Guys & Girls, Alcoves. Michael Abatemarco, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM, 16.
On the Edge of Your Seat: Chairs for the 21st Century, Schiffer Publishing, 16.
Wesley Pulka, Must See Show, Albuquerque Journal, 15.
Susan Wider, The Human Drift, THE Magazine, May, 15.
Diane Armitage, Landscape As Analogy, THE Magazine, November 10.
LandART, published 10, Radius Books.
Cheh, Carol, Pleasurework, Art Papers.
Pulka, Wesley, The Albuquerque Journal, 2001.
Allan, Steven Robert, Out on the Street, 2000.
Lee, Jeffrey, Stone and Trailer Memory, Weekly Alibi,
Volume 8, 1999, p. 22 (review/photograph).
Moore, S. Derrickson, Corbett Center Shines, Las Cruces Sun-News, 1998.
International Cone Box Show, Ceramics Monthly, January, 1995.
CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA
Artist talk, UNM Art Museum, 18
Art as Activism, Museum as Site, Panel, UNM Art Museum, 18
Women & Creativity, Therapy, panel presenter, 15.
Creative Core, 516 Arts, panel presenter, 14.
Autobiography As Subject Matter, 2000, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
Multi-media Artists,1999, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
Queer Art: Is there an aesthetic? 1999, moderated by
Kay Whitney, Sculpture magazine, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
COLLECTIONS
The Land An art site, Mountainaire, NM. Albuquerque Orton, INC.
City of Albuquerque Public Art Program. Chun Woo Nam, Seoul, Korea.
Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea. Uncommon Legacy Foundation, New York, NY.
Numerous other private collections.