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soring@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Website: http://www.iwishtosay.org
Website: http://www.iwishtosay.blogspot.com
Sheryl Oring addresses issues of language, communication, politics and memory through multimedia installations, public performance, works on paper, photography and writing. Much of her art depends on public interaction and participation and is informed by her past experience as a newspaper journalist.
Sheryl Oring has a degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has studied art history and theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She is working on an MFA in visual art with an emphasis in public culture at UCSD.
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Primary Published or Creative Work:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE
2008 “I Wish to Say, ” McCormick Freedom Museum, Chicago. Photo installation.
2008 “I Wish to Say,” public sites across the U.S. Performance.
2008 “I Wish to Say,” photo exhibition. Leu Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville.
2007 “I wish to say,” Kalahita Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India. Prints/photos.
2006 “The Birthday Project,” public sites across the U.S. Performance.
2006 “Writing Home,” International Center, New York. Performance.
2005 “I wish to say,” South Street Seaport/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York. Performance.
2005 “Writing Home,” Eldridge Street Project, New York. Performance, installation.
2005 “Chain Letter,” Eldridge Street Project. Site-specific sculpture.
2005 “If I Were Chancellor,” public sites across Germany. Performance.
2005 “I wish to say,” University of Memphis. Performance.
2004 “I wish to say,” Georgia State Univ. Performance, installation.
2004 “I wish to say,” Foley Square, New York, with Creative Time. Performance.
2004 “I wish to say,” public sites across the United States. Performance.
2003 “Writer’s Block,” Bryant Park, New York. Installation.
2003 “Writer’s Block,” Boston Public Library. Installation.
2002 “On the Impossibilities of Language,” Free University Berlin. Works on paper.
2002 “Writer’s Block,” Buda Castle, Budapest. Installation.
1999 “Writer’s Block,” Bebelplatz, Berlin. Installation.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Something is Happening,” UCSD.
2007 “Site Matters,” Brooklyn Arts Council gallery.
2006 “Looking Back From Ground Zero,” Brooklyn Museum.
2006 “eBayADay,” curated by Rebekah Mondrak, University of Michigan.
2005 “Cities, Art and Recovery” conference, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
2005 “Project Diversity,” Rotunda Gallery. Brooklyn.
2005 “Wander,” Makor Art Gallery. New York.
2005 Frankfurt Book Fair. Germany.
2003 San Francisco International Art Exposition.
2003 New York Print Fair.
2003 Art Chicago.
2003 “extra, 2003,” Gallery in Parliament. Berlin.
1999 Jewish Museum Berlin.
1998 Center for Art and Nature. Farrera, Spain.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 "Performance Artist has 530 Messages to Give Obaba," Los Angeles Times.
2008 "Artist Types Your Letters to the Next President," NPR.
2008 "There are Postcards With an Edge," Los Angeles Times.
2008 "Notes for Next President Make Stop at McCormick Freedom Museum," Chicago Tribune.
2008 "Writers Give Future President Their 2 Cents," New York Daily News.
2006 “Happy Birthday Mr. President From Art Fans,” All Things Considered, NPR.
2006 “They Say It’s Your Birthday,” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC.
2006 “Brooklyn-based Artist Brings Birthday Project to Houston,” Houston Chronicle.
2006 “Secretary to the People,” St. Petersburg Times.
2005 “If I were Chancellor,” Der Spiegel.
2005 “Gerd and Angie, You’ve Got Mail,” Der Spiegel.
2004 “Postcards to the President? Performance Art,” The Wall Street Journal.
2004 “N.Y. Expressionism,” The Washington Post.
2004 “A Salute to Free Speech, and the Freedom Not to Listen,” The New York Times.
2004 “Public Opinion on Postcards: Sheryl Oring finds new ways to Share America’s thoughts with President,” ABC World News Tonight.
2004 “Postcards to the President,” ARD Tagesschau (Germany).
2004 “Take a Letter!” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC.
2004 “Dear Mr. President: A performance artist takes dictation from the people, left and right,” New Haven Register.
2003 “Machines That Speak Volumes,” The New York Times.
2003 “Artist’s Obsession: 10 tons of Typewriters,” San Francisco Chronicle.
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
“I Wish to Say: The Birthday Project,” published by Quack!Media, 2008. For this project, Sheryl Oring traveled more than 11,000 miles across the U.S. in summer 2006 and set up a public office in flea markets and parks. Dressed in vintage party clothes, she invited passers by to dictate cards to President Bush for his 60th birthday and typed the messages verbatim. The 140-page book features carbon copies of these cards and portraits of the people who sent them by photographer Dhanraj Emanuel.
“I Wish to Say: The Birthday Project,” 2008. Handmade, limited-edition version of the above book. Edition of 8.
“Writing Home,” 2006. Edition of 18. This book was made in conjunction with a series of interactive performances – “Writing Home: Conversations with our Ancestors” — at New York’s Eldridge Street Project.
“I Wish to Say,” volumes 1 & 2, 2005. These limited-edition (100 copies each) artist books feature postcards to the president as dictated by the public in 2004.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS (ARTIST BOOKS)
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg; Skidmore College; University of Connecticut; Wesleyan University; Tate Britain; University of Vermont; Temple University; Reed College; Smith College; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Yale University; Swarthmore College; Lafayette College; Cornell University; University of Iowa; Ohio State University; University of California-Irvine; University of California-Santa Barbara; University of California-Los Angeles; University of Indiana; Univeristy of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Memberships:
College Art Association
American Institute of Architects
Honors and Awards:
2007 Puffin Foundation grant.
2006 Creative Capital Foundation grant in the “Emerging Fields” category.
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in the category Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work.
2005 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Swing Space” studio award.
2005 Arthur Burns grant for “If I were Chancellor” performances in Germany.
2005 Makor. Artist-in-Residence. New York City. February-June 2005.
2004 “Person of the Week.” World News Tonight, ABC News. Sept. 3, 2004.
2001 European Journalism Fellowship. Free University Berlin. 2001-2002.
1999 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship. Berlin. September 1999-May 2000.
1998 Montolieu Writer’s Workshop Fellowship. France. July 1998.
1998 Center for Art and Nature. Artist-in-Residence. Farrera, Spain. July 1998.
1997 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship. Berlin. August-September 1997.
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