Common acts of social interaction and their resulting omnipresent etiquette are central themes in David Sherry’s work. In his performances Sherry provides an insight into the cultural codes and learned behaviours revealed in conversations, radio programs, newspaper articles or banal incidents in the street. Sherry’s work provides another way of thinking about the inspirational philosophy often found in this type of exchange, peering into the laws of the social mesh, repelling an accepted discourse and embracing other forms of meaning common to us all. Sherry’s often humourous performance works prompt us to question our daily rituals just at the point when they become unnoticed.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2019 Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, Belfast International Festival

2019 Das Dritte Land, Kulturforum Berlin at the Korean Garden

2019 Outskirts (performance), Platform Glasgow UK

2019 Euro Talkfest (performance), Deveron Arts Huntly, UK

2018 Parallax Something, Patricia Fleming, Glasgow

2018 Play it again, Firstsite Colchester

2017 I see doors of opportunity where there are no doors, Civic Room, Glasgow 

 

2016 Epiphany of Insignificance, Golden Thread Belfast  

 

2015 One million years of Laughter, Summerhall, Edinburgh 

 

2015 Maybe tomorrow or on the weekend, Outpost, Norwich 

 

2014 News of the World, London 

 

2013 Humanist Cumulative, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow 

 

2013 Sense Makes No Sense, The Changing Room, Stirling 

 

2011 100 drawings on ham and cheese, Market Gallery Glasgow 

 

2011 Holding phones counting cars, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin 

 

2008 Zoo Art Fair, Mother’s tankstation (solo presentation) 

 

2007 Regulations for irrational procedures, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin 

 

2006 Something in between the teeth, Catalyst Arts, Belfast 

 

2005 Info Retreat, M and M Gallery, Antwerp 

 

2005 Public Spirit, Jack Hanley, San Francisco 

 

2003   Inter-remoteness, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 

 

2003 Natural Situation, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh  

 

2001 Comfortably Being Alive, Project space, Tramway, Glasgow  

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

 

2021 Garage Vivant, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

2019 Hilbert Raum Berlin. Two person exhibition with Maurice Doherty.

2018 Good £uck, Glasgow International 

 

2018 Look Again Festival Aberdeen, commissioned performance 

 

2018 The Collection for the Poor Collector, Sperling Gallery, Munich  

 

2017 The Laughable Enigma of the Ordinary, Jose Campos Contemporary Arts Center, Azores 

 

2017 Ultra Eczema project, performances Het-Bos Antwerp and De-player Rotterdam 

 

2017 Leith Late performance, Punjabi Junction, Edinburgh 

 

2017 VAFT Video Art Festival Turku Finland and HUUTO Galleria Screening Helsinki, Finland 

 

2017 Greener on the other side, screening FAQ, Bremen 

 

2017 Performance Lecture, Edinburgh College of Art, Friday Talks Series 

 

2016 Guest Projects London group show and performance 

 

2016 Manifesta 11 Zurich, Cabaret Voltaire. Performances 

 

2016 Cains Brewery performance, Liverpool Biennial 

 

2016 The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 

 

2016 Double Act, Art & Comedy, Bluecoat Liverpool 

 

2016 Circus Between Worlds, Glasgow International  

 

2015 Fix Performance Festival, Catalyst Arts Belfast 

 

2015 Devils In The Making, GoMA  

 

2014 Performance Lecture Newcastle University 

 

2014 Performance, exhibition at the CCA Derry/Londonderry 

 

2014 37 pieces of Flair, Newbridge Project, Newcastle 

 

2014 Motivational Deficit, Crawford Gallery Cork  

 

2014 Journey into the unknown, Performance CCA Derry-Londonderry 

 

2014 Screening for the Commonwealth Games, Glasgow Bandstand 

 

2014 Generation, Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, the Traveling Gallery and Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow 

 

2014 RIFF, Baltic 39, Newcastle 

 

2013 Weingrull, Karlsruhe, two person show with Thomas Geiger  

 

2013 Performance, Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow 

 

2013 34 Knots, Group show and residency, Cuxhaven  

 

2013 Make Shift, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh  

 

2013 Red Sauce Mania Performance, The Common Guild Glasgow. 

 

2012 I want to believe, Incubate Festival, Tilberg, the Netherlands 

 

2012 Artists of the No, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna 

 

2012 Tales of the City, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 

 

2012 Turin Over, Left Luggage, Performance, Turin Metro Station 

 

2012 Performing Sculpture, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 

 

2012 Everything Flows, Performance, Glasgow International 

 

2012 Last, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 

 

2012 I love those paintings, Mother’s tankstation Dublin, Four person show 

 

2012 Title to be decided, Mexico Projects, Leeds  

 

2011 Glasgow/Turin, 150th celebration of Italy’s unification 

 

2011 Electrical Appliance, Performance at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 

 

2011Oh my, oh my, Convocation House, Johannesburg 

 

2011 The Second Act, Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam 

 

2011 Somewhere Else, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona 

 

2011 Blue print for a Bogey, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 

 

2010 Dead Pan, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 

 

2010 Curated project, 798 Art Festival, Beijing 

 

2010 V1, MMX Berlin 

 

2010 Performance series at the Edinburgh Art Festival 

 

2010 One fine morning in May, GAK, Bremen 

 

2010 I am not here, De Appel, Amsterdam 

 

2010 Artist film and video at BBC Scotland 

 

2009 Public art commission, Birmingham 

 

2009 Singing Yoghurt, Log Gallery, Bergamo, Italy  

 

2009 Running time, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 

 

2009 Bad Faith, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 

 

2009 Grin and Bear it:, Glucksman Gallery, Cork 

 

2009 Bic Pen, Performance, The International 3, Manchester  

 

2009 Factory, MoBY, Israel 

 

2009 Liste, performance commission, Basel 

 

2007 Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn  

 

2006 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin  

 

2006 1234, Work Place, Newcastle 

 

2004 Christmas visions, BBC 3 Commission 

 

2003  Gagosian, London group show.  

 

2003  Zenomap at the Venice Biennale.  

 

2003  Beck’s Futures, ICA London, CCA Glasgow and Southampton  

 

2002 Thoughts of the Unknown, Transmission, Glasgow 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

 

2014 Exhibition review, The Scotsman 

 

2013 Optimism works both ways, Publication with Thomas Geiger  

 

2012 Creative Ireland, The visual arts 

 

2011 Counting cars, a N review 

 

2010 Health and Safety Effects, Published by Deveron Arts 

 

2010 I’m not here, De Apple, reviewed in Frieze 

 

2009 Limited edition, publication with Café Royal 

 

2007 Regulations for irrational procedures, Art Review 

 

2005 Armpit of the mole, published by Michael Quistrebert 

 

2003 Becks Futures, The New York Times  

 

2002 Dead dog on a fire, NIFCA publication 

 

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES 

 

2020 Creative Work Shop, Findhorn Bay Arts

2018 Cove Park, Residency 

 

2015 Fjuk Residency, Iceland 

 

2014 Creative Scotland Award 

 

2011 Creative Scotland Award 

 

2010 Artist Residency Deveron Arts, Huntly 

 

2009 RSA Residencies Award 

 

2009 Professional Development Award, Scottish Arts Council  

 

2008 Glasgow Visual Arts Award Scheme 

 

2006-07 Residency, Villa Concordia, Bamberg Germany 

 

2006 Scottish Arts Council Personal development Award 

 

2004 Scottish Arts Council Award 

 

2004 Artists Lab Residency, CCA Glasgow 

 

2003 Scottish Arts Council personal development Award 

 

2002 NIFCA Residency, Suomenlinna, Finland