Shari Mendelson

Brooklyn, NY

Shari Mendelson is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn and upstate, New York. For the past 15 years she has been working on a series of sculpture that are influenced by Roman, Greek, Syrian, and Mesopotamian art and are constructed primarily from found plastic bottles. Her love of materials and process, ancient art and history, and her concern for the environment have coalesced in her current body of work.

Mendelson has been the recipient of four New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (2017, 2011, 1997, and 1987), a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (1989), and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant (2017) and a Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award (2024). She has been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Bau Institute/Camargo Foundation. Mendelson has been a visiting artist at UrbanGlass, The Corning Museum of Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art, and Pilchuck School of Glass.