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Sonia Landy Sheridan

Sonia Landy Sheridan (1925–2021) founded Generative Systems at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970 — the program that taught artists to treat copiers, faxes, and computers as instruments — after talking 3M into making her artist-in-residence in 1969, where she got her hands on the first Color-in-Color thermal copier and never let the machines go. A Hunter College BA, a Guggenheim in 1973, Leonardo's editorial circle, and exhibitions from Software (Jewish Museum, 1970) to Electra (Paris, 1983): she spent a half-century proving that reproduction technology was an art material. The Hood Museum at Dartmouth acquired 684 of her works in 2002 and mounted her retrospective in 2009; her Portable Postcard Exhibitions — 1969 and 2011, held in this collection — are the whole philosophy in a box: the exhibition is the object.

Artist's website (soniasheridan.org) ↗

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