Sally Sheinman
Sally Sheinman (born May 16, 1949) is an American visual, digital and installation artist based in the UK. Biography. Early life and education. Sheinman was born in Watertown, New York where she grew up on a farm. She worked in finance on Wall Street and in London and for a time was the company secretary of the Mocatta Metals Corporation. She studied painting at the State University of New York at Albany and later studied art at Hunter College in New York where her tutors included Tony Smith and Robert Morris. Since the 1980s, Sheinman has lived in  Britain, where she works in Northampton. Career. Sheinman's works have included an interactive touring exhibition in association with the University of Hertfordshire called "the Wishing Ceremony". "The Wishing Ceremony" opened in six locations in Leicester City in 2005 and then traveled to the University of Hertfordshire and mac in Birmingham in 2006. "The Wishing Ceremony" is also available on-line as part of an interactive website. Her exhibitions include Commissions include "Non-Essential Signage" for the Arts Council England, "Announcements" for South and East Belfast Trust, "Artkacina" for firstsite in Colchester (2006) and "ARTDNA" for the Towner Gallery in  Eastbourne (2008). In 2010 Sheinman finished "Let's Celebrate" - a commission inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. The work toured to five National Trust properties across the East Midlands throughout 2010 and comprised over 250 painted miniature sculptures. Sheinman worked on a project titled "Being Human", created in collaboration with researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge and funded by the National Trust, Mottisfont Abbey. The work, a 200-foot-long paper sculpture made of 25,000 pieces of hand-painted gold Japanese rice-paper representing the number of genes in the human genome, was displayed  at Mottisfont Abbey in the autumn of 2011. A subsequent on-going project, "What Makes You/You", which began in 2013, is a web-based digital and interactive series of artworks based on responses received from members of the public. "What Makes You/You" was selected in The Lumen Prize Exhibition longlist of 100 works and shortlist of 28 works, and was named the winner of the Founder's Prize. In 2018, Sheinman received a grant from the Arts Council National Lottery Project, to be an Artist in Residence at C2C Social Action, a Northamptonshire-based charity supporting offenders in  the criminal justice system. Sheinman is also involved with Artists Interaction and Representation (AIR) and in 2012 was elected as Chair of this organisation which represents over 16,000 artists within the UK.