Education
MFA Program, Hunter College, New York City
BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York City
BA, Barnard College, New York City
Residencies
2023 Yaddo Residency, Saragota Springs, NY
2022 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2018 Director's Guest, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Solo Exhibitions
2019 In Her Studio, New Release Gallery, NYC *
2006 Girls’ School, Kustera Tilton Gallery, NYC
1997 Diary, Wooster Gardens, New York City
1995 Interview, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Interview, Jose Freire Fine Art, NYC
1993 Sam Samore, Kerri Scharlin, and Jane and Louise Wilson, David Zwirner
Gallery, NYC
Student Body, Dooley Le Cappellaine, NYC
Wanted, Postmasters, NYC
1991 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Curatorial
2019 Salon 9: Ron Padgett, Carol Szymanski, & John Yau, Scharlin Studio,
NYC
Salon 8: Three Paritcular Authors , Scharlin Studio, NYCSalon 7:
Civitella XXV, Scharlin Studio, NYC
2018 Salon 6: F Magazine, Scharlin Studio, NYC
Salon 5: The Miraculous, Scharlin Studio, NYC
2017 Salon 4: Gonzalez Peña / The Cornichons, Scharlin Studio, NYC
Salon 3 : Rosenberg / Schneider / Dirty Mirrors, Scharlin Studio, NYC
Salon 2 : Oppenheim / McClelland, Scharlin Studio, NYC
2016 Salon 1 : Scarpitta / Bankemper, Scharlin Studio, NYC
1992 The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC*
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2020 Reactional Aesthetics:Art of the 1990s from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection & Archive, Clay St Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Soft Power, Elga Wimmer PCC, NYC
The Miraculous in Houston, organized by Heather (Bause) Rubinstein and Raphael Rubinstein in conjunction with the 2017 CounterCurrent Festival, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2016 recap: thirty years of momenta art, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2015 WHO, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Multiple Identities, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Public Service and Other Announcements, curated by John Ravenal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Projects.doc: selections from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection and Archive, Cincinnati Arts Association, Cincinnati, OH
1996 Sosie, Sagacho Exhibition Space, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, Tokyo, Japan *
1995 Inside/Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT *
Face Forward: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, curated by Maureen Sherlock, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI *
Costume Drama, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, curated by Juli Carson, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Closing In, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA *
Looking at Ourselves: The American Portrait, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
3, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
The Portrait Now, curated by Elga Wimmer and Berta Sichel, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NYC
The Elusive Figure: works from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
This Ends Up, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramme, WY
Gang Warfare, curated by Michael Corris, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX and The Independent Art Space, London, UK
1994 On-Line, with John Miller and Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Alternative Space, Ghent, Belgium
Sosie, Galerie Herve Mikaeloff, Paris, France *
Yes I Am, No I’m Not, Momenta Art, NYC I, Myself, Me, The Interart. Center, NYC
Mob, Speedway Gallery, Boston, MA
The Large (Broken) Glass, curated by Lauren Wittels, HERE Arts Center, NYC
1993 Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC
A/C Project Space, NYC
Object of Desires, Carl Stevens, Frankfurt, Germany
Evidently, Dooley Le Cappellaine, NYC
1992 Writings on the Wall, 303 Gallery, NYC
The Art Mall: A Social Space, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
E.S.P., Dooley Le Cappellaine, NYC
Travel and Leisure, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
Art Since 1992, Alternative Space, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Unlearning, curated by Kenny Schacter, Alternative Space, New York
Rethinking Space (II) Certain Uncertainty, curated by Kenny Schacter. and Sandra Gering, The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank,NYC
Home for June, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, NYC
1990 All Quiet on the Western Front, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris, France *
Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, NYC
Invitational, Stux Gallery, NYC
1989 American Fine Arts Co., NYC
1986 Selections 35, The Drawing Center, NYC (1986-1987)
* Exhibition Catalog
Selected Bibliography
2018 Scharlin, Kerri, In Her Studio, Zingmagazine, issue 25, pp. 114-130
Rivera, Natalie, The Women's Group, Zingmagazine, issue 25, pp. 332-354
Celentano, Carol, Soft Power: Aisha Bell, Sharon Lockhart, Kerri Scharlin, Carolee Schneemann, Anita Seiff, Carol Szymanski & Nicola L., at Elga Wimmer PCC, Whitehot Magazine, January 2018
2014 Rubinstein, Raphael, 21, The Miraculous, Paper Monument, pp. 34
2006 Finch, Charlie, Old Friends, Artnet.com, May 5
Kerri Scharlin, Painternyc.blogspot.com, May 9
1997 Hapgood, Susan, Review, Art in America, July, pp. 93
Greene, David A., Kerri Scharlin, Frieze, Summer, issue #35, pp. 91-92
Humphrey, David, New York Fax, Art Issues, Summer, pp. 38-39
Rivera, Natalie, Kerri Scharlin: Diary; Wooster Gardens, Zingmagazine, Summer, Issue #4, pp. 258-260
Pokorny, Sydney, Review, Artforum, May, pp. 110-111
Newhall, Edith, Art for Argument’s Sake, New York, March 24, pp. 83-85
Saltz, Jerry, Review, Time Out New York, March 20-27, pp. 48
Nelson, Katherine, Shameless Dame Claims Fame, Print, January- February, pp. 58-63
Findsen, Owen, Aronoff Exhibit not Art, but an Art Event, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, July 13
1996 Bloom, Amy, A Face in the Crowd, Vogue, December, pp. 293-297
1995 Van der Heeg, Erik and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Multiple Personalities, Material, No. 25, pp. 10
Birnbaum, Daniel, Review, Artforum, October, pp. 113
Monji, Mokiko, Profile, Oggi, March, pp. 217
McGee, Celia, Portraiture is Back, But, My, It’s Changed, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, January 1, pp. 1, 35
Lind, Maria, Kerri Scharlin at Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Svenska Dagbladet, April 29
Birnbaum, Daniel, Kerri Scharlin at Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Dagens Nyheter, April 28
Herrmanns, Ralph, From Scharlin's Web, 'just because I make myself the subject my work...'Dagens Industri
1994 Smith, Roberta, Kerri Scharlin at Jose Freire, The New York Times, December 9, pp. C30
Hess, Elizabeth, Very Kerri, The Village Voice, December 6, pp. 87
Ickes, Bob, Advertorials for Myself, New York, November 28, pp. 24
O’Brien, Glenn, Hot Hype: Glenn O’Brien talks with Kerri Scharlin, Artforum, January, pp. 82-85, 115
Ebony, David, Review, Art in America, January, pp. 106
The New Yorker, December 12
1993 Saltonstall, David, Artistic on the Face of It, The Daily News, November 4, pp. 24
Perchuk, Andrew, Review, Artforum, October, pp. 96
Weil, Benjamin, Review, Purple Prose, #4, Fall
Fujimori, Manami, Review, Bijutsu Techo, October
Stevenson, Peter, Off the Record, The New York Observer, August 16
Levin, Kim, Voice Choice, The Village Voice, July 6
Penner, Degen, Egos and Ids: The 17 Faces of Kerri. Or Are They? The New York Times, July 11
Levin, Kim, Listings, The Village Voice, July 27
Smith, Roberta, Review, The New York Times, June 4 1992
Cottingham, Laura, Review, The New York Times, June 4
Weil, Benjamin, Review, Flash Art, Summer
News, Flash Art News, March/April
Mahoney, Robert, Unlearning, Arts Magazine, March, v66, #7, pp. 81-82
1991 Levin, Kim, Listings, The Village Voice, August 20