artist statement
Sherry Tseng Hill sometimes paints and draws, but mostly she looks under rocks, peels back surfaces, and makes things thinking about the rhythm of a community. Based in Houston, TX., her work explores the idea of traces and crevices and how they serve as metaphors for other things - erasure, loss, the passage of time, and what is seen/not seen. Constructed from everyday objects, her traces layer disparate materials to imagine a world where those hidden in the crevices become visible.
Sherry Tseng Hill sometimes paints and draws, but mostly she looks under rocks, peels back surfaces, and makes things thinking about the rhythm of a community. Based in Houston, TX., her work explores the idea of traces and crevices and how they serve as metaphors for other things - erasure, loss, the passage of time, and what is seen/not seen. Constructed from everyday objects, her traces layer disparate materials to imagine a world where those hidden in the crevices become visible.
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awards
2024 Wendy Wagner Spring Trio Grant recipient
2023 Juror Awardee - The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center
2022 Finalist - Wendy Wagner Foundation Summer Trio Grant
2014 Finalist - Hunting Art Prize
2012 First Place Award - Visual Arts Alliance 29th Juried Membership Show
2011 Finalist - Hunting Art Prize
select one & two person exhibitions
2004 liminal being, Moody Gllery, Houston, TX
2023 And Some I Assume, Are Good People, Arts Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, TX (with artist Chet Urban)
2020 There Is Another Garden, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with mosaic artist Nathan Hill)
2018 City Beats, Houston City Hall Rotunda, Houston, TX
2018 Houston Re-Mixed: Songs, Dances & Sentinels of Time, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with sculptor Jim Adams)
2016 Changing Faces, The Jung Center, Houston, TX (with painter Kelyn Reis)
2015 Dreams And Constructs: The Works of Sherry Tseng Hill, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub
2015 Masks, Monsters, and Monoliths, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with sculptor Jim Adams)
2013 Unfolding Dreams & Memories, 3 Allen Center & Total Plaza, Houston, TX
select group exhibitions
2022 Texas Dimensional Exhibition at San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio TX (curated by André and Virginia Bally)
2022 ICOSA Open Space Exhibition, Austin, TX (curated by Jill Schroeder of grayDUCK Gallery)
2022 BLOCK XXII, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Glassell School of Art (curated by Andy Campbell, Associate Professor of Critical Studies, USC Roski School of Art and Design)
2020 Rice University Asian American Archives, "Faces in the Pandemic" Invitational Art Exhibition
2020 House of Cards by The OGE Group Installation at Discovery Green, Houston TX (selected participating artist)
2015 33rd Annua Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX (juried by Gus Kopriva)
2015 Art in 3 Dimensions, Centro Cultural Aztlan Invitation, San Antonio, TX (curated by Andre and Virginia Bally)
commissions & collections
2023 Rice University Public Art Collection
2022 Houston Endowment Corporate Collection
2018 City of Houston Public Art Collection
lectiures/presentations/workshops/panels
2023 City of Houston Initiative Grant Program panelist
2021 Artist talk series, Houston Asian American Archive-Rice University
2015 Artist lecture, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub Gallery
2015 Mask Making workshop, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub Gallery
exhibition juror
2021 Co-juror for Conroe Art League National, Conroe TX (w/ co-juror Heidi Vaughn)
Commissions/Collections
2023 Rice University Public Art Collection, (2) 36"x24" textile art
2022 Houston Endowment Inc., (3) 36'x24" paper weavings
2018 Public Art Commission, City Beats series, (6) six 36"x48" acrylic on canvas paintings
Location: Southwest Police Department Interior Art Project, Houston, TX; commissioned by the City of Houston
Lectures/Presentations/Workshops
2021 Artist Talk series, Houston Asian American Archives, Rice University, Houston, TX
2021 Co-Juror (with Heidi Vaughn), Conroe Art League 6th National Competition, Conroe, TX
2015 Artist lecture, Art Hub Gallery, Houston Community College Northeast Campus, Houston, TX
2015 Mask Making workshop, Art Hub Gallery, Houston Community College Northeast Campus, Houston, TX
awards
2024 Wendy Wagner Spring Trio Grant recipient
2023 Juror Awardee - The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center
2022 Finalist - Wendy Wagner Foundation Summer Trio Grant
2014 Finalist - Hunting Art Prize
2012 First Place Award - Visual Arts Alliance 29th Juried Membership Show
2011 Finalist - Hunting Art Prize
select one & two person exhibitions
2004 liminal being, Moody Gllery, Houston, TX
2023 And Some I Assume, Are Good People, Arts Ft. Worth, Ft. Worth, TX (with artist Chet Urban)
2020 There Is Another Garden, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with mosaic artist Nathan Hill)
2018 City Beats, Houston City Hall Rotunda, Houston, TX
2018 Houston Re-Mixed: Songs, Dances & Sentinels of Time, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with sculptor Jim Adams)
2016 Changing Faces, The Jung Center, Houston, TX (with painter Kelyn Reis)
2015 Dreams And Constructs: The Works of Sherry Tseng Hill, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub
2015 Masks, Monsters, and Monoliths, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX (with sculptor Jim Adams)
2013 Unfolding Dreams & Memories, 3 Allen Center & Total Plaza, Houston, TX
select group exhibitions
2022 Texas Dimensional Exhibition at San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio TX (curated by André and Virginia Bally)
2022 ICOSA Open Space Exhibition, Austin, TX (curated by Jill Schroeder of grayDUCK Gallery)
2022 BLOCK XXII, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Glassell School of Art (curated by Andy Campbell, Associate Professor of Critical Studies, USC Roski School of Art and Design)
2020 Rice University Asian American Archives, "Faces in the Pandemic" Invitational Art Exhibition
2020 House of Cards by The OGE Group Installation at Discovery Green, Houston TX (selected participating artist)
2015 33rd Annua Visual Arts Alliance Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX (juried by Gus Kopriva)
2015 Art in 3 Dimensions, Centro Cultural Aztlan Invitation, San Antonio, TX (curated by Andre and Virginia Bally)
commissions & collections
2023 Rice University Public Art Collection
2022 Houston Endowment Corporate Collection
2018 City of Houston Public Art Collection
lectiures/presentations/workshops/panels
2023 City of Houston Initiative Grant Program panelist
2021 Artist talk series, Houston Asian American Archive-Rice University
2015 Artist lecture, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub Gallery
2015 Mask Making workshop, Houston Community College Northeast Campus Art Hub Gallery
exhibition juror
2021 Co-juror for Conroe Art League National, Conroe TX (w/ co-juror Heidi Vaughn)
Commissions/Collections
2023 Rice University Public Art Collection, (2) 36"x24" textile art
2022 Houston Endowment Inc., (3) 36'x24" paper weavings
2018 Public Art Commission, City Beats series, (6) six 36"x48" acrylic on canvas paintings
Location: Southwest Police Department Interior Art Project, Houston, TX; commissioned by the City of Houston
Lectures/Presentations/Workshops
2021 Artist Talk series, Houston Asian American Archives, Rice University, Houston, TX
2021 Co-Juror (with Heidi Vaughn), Conroe Art League 6th National Competition, Conroe, TX
2015 Artist lecture, Art Hub Gallery, Houston Community College Northeast Campus, Houston, TX
2015 Mask Making workshop, Art Hub Gallery, Houston Community College Northeast Campus, Houston, TX
press
Rice University 2020 - Faces in the Pandemic at Fondren Library
Rice University Cultural Heritage Collections Chao Center for Asian Studies Houston Asian American Archives Oral History 2020
Houston Art Tribe - january 28, 2020 artist interview featuring sherry tseng hill
Houston Public Media Arts InSight : multicultural mask - first aired in August, 1915
KUHF houston matters 2015 - interview on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
Houston Press 2015 - on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
CW39 Newsfix 2015 - interview on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
Houston Chronicle 2010 - sherry tseng hill, artist
Houston Chronicle 2003 - gold brick award
Rice University 2020 - Faces in the Pandemic at Fondren Library
Rice University Cultural Heritage Collections Chao Center for Asian Studies Houston Asian American Archives Oral History 2020
Houston Art Tribe - january 28, 2020 artist interview featuring sherry tseng hill
Houston Public Media Arts InSight : multicultural mask - first aired in August, 1915
KUHF houston matters 2015 - interview on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
Houston Press 2015 - on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
CW39 Newsfix 2015 - interview on masks, monsters, and monoliths exhibit
Houston Chronicle 2010 - sherry tseng hill, artist
Houston Chronicle 2003 - gold brick award