Elisabeth Sherman

Assistant Curator

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Elisabeth Sherman is an Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum. She curated Torbjørn Rødland: Blue Portrait (Nokia N82) (2016), currently on display on the Museum’s billboard at 95 Horatio Street.  Recently, she co-curated the exhibition Flatlands (2016), served on the curatorial team for Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner (2015) and co-curated the installation of Michele Abeles’s Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage (2015). In 2012, she curated Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2.  She assisted with the exhibitions Danny Lyon: Message to the Future (2016), the 2012 and 2014 Whitney Biennials and Paul Thek: Diver (2010). She has written for numerous Whitney exhibition catalogues as well as contributed to Artforum and Art in America.

 

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