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Mary Sherman is an American artist, curator and the director of TransCultural Exchange. She is also an adjunct professor at Boston College and Northeastern University, has written for various publications (including the Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, Boston Review and ARTnews), and in 2010 served as the interim Associate Director of MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

      She has received numerous grants and awards, including two Fulbright Senior Specialist Grants (Taipei and Istanbul), and been an artist-in-residence at such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Taipei Artist Village. Among the shows she's curated, two received awards from the Northeast Chapter of the International Art Critics Association.

      Her own works, which push the definition of painting into the realm of space and sound, have been shown at numerous institutions, including Taipei's Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing's Central Conservatory, the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) in Montreal. and New York's Trans Hudson Gallery. In 2016 Leonardo Electronic Almanac/MIT Press published Mary Sherman: What if You Could Hear a Painting, a summary of her work with painting and sound, coinciding with her exhibition Dream Mechaniques at Oboro in Montreal.