Sherry R. Selavy, MD., MFA.
Artistic Resume
P.O. Box 33882
Santa Fe, NM 87594
SherrySelavy@aol.com
505-286-4723
Artistic Professional Experiences and Awards
2012
Bond Museum, Untitled 12 Group Show
2011
Red Dot Gallery, Group Show
2011
Juried Student Exhibition, Santa Fe Community College
2010
Juried Student Exhibition, Santa Fe Community College
2009
Juried Student Exhibition, Santa Fe Community College
2008
Juried Student Exhibition, Santa Fe Community College
2006
Portrait Commission, Santa Fe, NM.
2006
Large Commission Painting, Estate of Dr. Viator and Dr. Demonteverde,
Boston, MA.
2005
Portrait Commission, Santa Fe, NM.
2004
Second Prize, and Rio Grande Art Award, Masterworks, Albuquerque, NM.
2000-2004
Private sales and commissions, Santa Fe, NY, MA.
2001
Dahesh Museum Prize awarded for Painting Diploma Project (Painting)
1999
Dahesh Museum Show, Woman with White Headdress, Oil painting, which was
also featured in American Artist, December 1999.
1992
First Place in Categories of Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, and People’s Choice
Award, Las Vegas Art Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV.
1988-1991
Public Art Tithing Project VII, The Manhattan Flyer Show #3, Phone Booth
Graphics, Xeroxes of Postcards of Silverpoint Drawings, Edition: 10,000.
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project VI, The Manhattan Flyer Show #2, Computer
Graphics, Xeroxes of Postcards of Silverpoint Drawings and Poetry, Edition:
10,000.
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project V, The Manhattan Postcard Show #4, courtesy of the
following museum bookstores: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Frick Collection, The
Smithsonian Museum, Craft Museum, NY. Public Library Postcard of Color
Photograph, “Still Life with Tomatoes,” Edition: 2000.
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project IV, The Manhattan Postcard Show #3, courtesy of the
following bookstores: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Frick Collection, The Smithsonian
Museum, Craft Museum, NY. Public Library Postcard of Color Photograph,
“Playing the Ponies,” Edition: 2000.
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project III, The Manhattan Postcard Show #3, courtesy of
the following bookstores: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Frick Collection, The Smithsonian
Museum, Craft Museum, NY. Public Library Postcard of Color Photograph,
“Playing the Ponies,” Edition: 2000.
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project II, The Manhattan Postcard Show #3, courtesy of the
following bookstores: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Frick Collection, The Smithsonian
Museum, Craft Museum, NY. Public Library Postcard of Color Photograph,
“Silverpoints, Woman in Mirror III and IV,” Edition: 2000.
Sherry R. Selavy, M.D., MFA
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Artistic Professional Experiences and Awards (continued)
1989-1991
Public Art Tithing Project III, The Manhattan Postcard Show #3, courtesy of
the following bookstores: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, Frick Collection, The Smithsonian
Museum, Craft Museum, NY. Public Library Postcard of Color Photograph,
“Silverpoints, Woman in Mirror I and II,” Edition: 2000.
1987
“PoArtics,” Four sculptural Objects with poems, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
1984
First Prize, Mount Sinai Medical Center Art Exhibit, New York, NY.
1983
New York City in association with Hunter College Creative Achievement Award,
presented by Mayor Edward Koch, and Hunter College President Donna
Shalaila for Poetry.
1982
“Avant-Garde Festival,” International Art Invitational Exhibition, Interactional
Computer in Transportable Room, New York, NY.
1979
“Five Bouyant Art Objects,” five monumental Sculpture within Coralville
Reservoir, visible from I-80, Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“Burrowing Objects in Fifteen Environments,” twenty-eight cast bronze
sculptures within fifteen 55 gallon drum containers, One Person Art Show, Fine
Arts Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“Population,” thirty cast iron sculptures, One Person Art Show, University
Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“Hovering Art Object,” monumental sculpture suspended off a bridge in
Coralville Reservoir, Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“Roshack’s Suspended Art Object,” monumental sculpture, business district,
downtown Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“You Are Here,” twenty paintings and drawings, One Person Art Exhibit,
University of Iowa Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa.
1979
“Five Monumental Objects: Buoyant Form in reservoir,” Iowa City Iowa
1978`
“Recumbent Art Object,” monumental Cast Aluminum Sculpture, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1978
“Five Monumental Suspended Art Objects,” Park Road Bridge, Iowa City, Iowa.
1978
Private Commission, Dr. H. Sahid, “Timepiece,” Figurative Bronze Casting,
Chicago, IL
1978
One Woman Art Show, University of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
1977
AMSA Eaton Award for Medical Illustration, Second Place, Student Division
1976
Gaston Lachaise Metal Commission, Cook County Hospital, Department of
Anesthesia.
1976
“Waiting Couple,” group Sculpture exhibition, Tyler Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
1975
Nelson Rockefeller Commemorative Medal, Commission United States
Department of Numismatics
Sherry R. Selavy, M.D., MFA
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Education
1997-2001
MFA, cum laude- The New York Academy of Figurative Art.
Degree awarded in Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, the first triple
major/MFA awarded in the history of the school.
Dahesh Museum Prize awarded for Painting Diploma project, now in private
collection of the Morgan-McReynold’s estate of SmithBarney in NY.
Dahesh Museum Exhibit of New York Academy of Art Students, December
2000 for Woman in White Headdress, also featured in American Artist.
December 1999. (Negotiations active for private purchase.)
1997-1999
Audited courses and seminars at Art Student League, as well as studied
privately with leading figurative artists in New York City.
1996-1997
Audited courses at SUNY Delhi Technical College in preparation for
designing, contracting, and constructing own dream house and studio.
Construction and remodeling, woodworking, cabinetmaking, masonry,
and engineering.
1983-1987
M.D.–Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New
York, NYC, New York.
1979-1981
M.A., Sculpture: pre-medical course work – Hunter College of the City
University of New York, NYC, New York.
1978-1979
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (graduate Courses in sculpture)
1976-1978
B.S., cum laude, Medical Art – University of Illinois at Chicago Medical
Center, Chicago, Illinois.
1976
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy (scholarship for study in medical art and
sculpture).
1972-1975
B.F.A. cum laude, 1975 (sculpture) – University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Internship and Residency
1988-1991
Residency in Anesthesiology at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital and
Massachusetts’ General hospital of the Harvard Medical System, Boston, MA
1887-1988
Internship in Internal Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY
Academic Appointments
1988-1991
Clinical Fellow in Anesthesia (Specialty Training – Cardio thoracic and Regional
Pain) Harvard Medical School: Boston MA
Home and Studio Construction
1996-2002
With the assistance and guidance of Architect Alexander Harrison, the planning
and design of a straw bale construction of a 2,400 square foot house with
1,800 square foot studio and workshop, located on ten acres boasting 120
mile views in New Mexico. The house includes seven antique doors, a 1,500
gallon recyclable water feature, flagstone walkways and gardens, and
traditional viga and latilla work of the highest quality. Approximately, 80% of
all work was self-supervised and 40% of all work was physically done by self.
The actual construction took 22 months to complete. It was a lifetime dream
and is a living artwork.