Dana Sherwood is a multimedia artist focused on the relationship between humans and the natural world. She stages banquets of tempting treats in the landscape as a way to attract animals and film them feasting on night vision video cameras. These videos reflect the effects of human encroachment on nature and capture Sherwood’s interest in animals that benefit from “humans or human interference.” They also often serve as the source material for her fantastical watercolor drawings, the style of which is evident in the seven-color screenprint she made at the Neiman Center.

Sherwood received her BFA from the University of Maine, Farmington. Her recent solo exhibitions include Some Kind of Tea Party or Thereabouts in the Realm of Madness at UMass Dartmouth, (Dartmouth, MA), The Cake Eaters at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York, NY), Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness at Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme, CT), Horses for the Trees at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York, NY) and Feral Cakes at Kepler Art Conseil, Galerie de l’Angle (Paris, France) among others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at dOCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, Germany), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY), Jack Shainman Gallery (New York, NY), Nassau County Museum of Art (Roslyn, NY), Flux Factory (New York, NY), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York, NY), The Pit (Glendale, CA), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York, NY), and Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, NY). Sherwood has received several prestigious residencies including Swing Space by LMCC, Pilchuck Glass School, and OMI International Arts Center.