Baltimore Museum of Art, “Deidre Scherer: The Threaded Image”, Baltimore, MD
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2023 | Mobilia Gallery, Collaborations with Jackie Abrams, Cambridge, MA |
| 2019 | Brattleboro Museum, Jackie Abrams & Deidre Scherer: CONNECTIONS, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2018 | Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, Deidre Scherer: Human Textures, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2014 | SEABA Gallery, Finding Center, Burlington, VT, also keynote speaker at Full Circle Festival |
| 2013 | Bigelow Gallery, United Theological Seminary, Threads of Connection, New Brighton, MN |
| 2009 | Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC |
| 2007 | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York City, NY |
| 2006
2006 |
Maltwood Art Museum, Surrounded by Family and Friends and The Last Year, Victoria, B.C.
Gallery North Star, Figurative Works In Fabric and Thread, Grafton, VT, and DVD catalogue |
| 2004 | Washington Center For The Performing Arts, Olympia, WA |
| 2003 | Genet Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| 2002 | Karl Drerup Gallery, Life Transitions, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill, Montreal, Canada; also, 1998 and 1994 |
| 2001 | Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Surrounded by Family and Friends, Brattleboro, VT, catalogue
Syracuse Stage, The Last Year, accompanied the play, “Wit”, Syracuse, NY |
| 1999 | Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, Layered Visions (retrospective), Paducah, KY |
| 1998 | Baltimore Museum of Art, Deidre Scherer: The Threaded Image, Baltimore, MD, artist lecture
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, MI |
| 1997 | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY |
| 1996 | Museum of Fine Arts, Deidre Scherer, Threads of Experience, Springfield, MA |
| 1995 | Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA |
| 1994 | Dennis Woodman Gallery, Images of Aging, Kew, Surrey, England |
| 1992 | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
| 1990 | Social Movement Gallery, Nashville, TN |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2024 | Arts Benicia, A Stitch in Time: Contemporary Textile Art, Benicia, CA |
| Chandler Gallery, Eclipsed: A Beginning Or An End, Randolph, VT | |
| Wayne Art Center, Art Quilt Elements, Wayne, PA, catalogue, | |
| Mitchell-Giddings Fine Art Gallery, 18 Artists – 44 Days, Brattleboro, VT | |
| 2023 | Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, Spring Muse, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2021 | Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Relative Relations, New York City, NY |
| Attleboro Arts Museum, By Hand, Attleboro, MA
The Rotch-Jones-Duff Museum, Sewful Work, New Bedford, MA |
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| 2020 | Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, MGFA 2020, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2018 | Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, TERRA inFIRMA, New York City, NY, catalogue cover |
| 2017 | Bennington Museum, The Festival -Time, Bennington, VT |
| Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, In Death, Cedarburg, WI | |
| 2016 | Mill Brook Gallery, Reunion Exhibit: RISD Class of 1967, Concord, NH |
| 2015 | The Art Place, Interactions, Wolfeboro, NH |
| 2013 | San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Milestones, San Jose, CA |
| 2012 | Mulvane Art Museum, Crafts National, Topeka, KS |
| 2011 | Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Biennial Regional Juror’s Choice, Keene, NH, Honorable Mention Award |
| 2010 | Bennington Museum, State of Craft, Bennington, VT |
| 2009 | Tabla Rasa Gallery, Pioneer Women, Brooklyn, NY
Arsenal for the Arts, Rhode Island School of Design New England Alumni Biennial, Watertown, MA |
| 2008 | Visions Art Gallery, Figuratively Speaking, San Diego, CA |
| 2005 | Racine Art Museum, Magnificent Extravagance, Racine, WI |
| 2004 | The 30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World, Tokyo International Festival, Japan |
| 2002 | The Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota, Material Witness, St. Paul, MN
The Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA, Whistler Award |
| 2001 | Ohio Craft Museum, Reality Check, Columbus, OH |
| 2000 | Museum of Science, The Secrets of Aging, Boston, MA
Museum of Art & Design, Miniatures 2000, Helsinki, Finland: also Helen Drutt: Philadelphia |
| 1999 | The Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Viewpoints, Davis, CA |
| 1996 | Canal Gallery, A Show of Hands, Holyoke, MA |
| 1995 | Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., Nat’l Museum of American Art, Full Deck, Washington, DC |
| 1994 | Museum of Fine Arts, Artists Eye the Elderly, Springfield, MA |
| 1993 | Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Intersections, Burlington, VT
Alexandra Palace, Celebrating the Stitch, London, England, also Vancouver, BC; Tokyo, Japan |
| 1991 | Northwest Craft Center, Image and Power, Seattle, WA |
| 1989 | Erector Square Gallery, Woman in Her Place, New Haven, CT, Honorable Mention |
| 1988 | Brockton Art Museum, Bits and Pieces, Brockton, MA |
| 1987 | Boston University Art Gallery, Illusion in Art, Boston, MA, catalogue
Textile Arts Centre, Figurative Fiber, Chicago, IL |
| 1985 | United Nations Conference on Women, An American Album, Nairobi, Kenya
Wheeler Gallery, Art for Africa: The Famine Relief, Providence, RI |
| SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS | |
| The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI | |
| The Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT | |
| The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College, New York City, NY | |
| Dartmouth College, Tuck School, Hanover, NH | |
| Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA | |
| St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester, NY | |
| The Crowell Collection, Newfane, VT | |
| Museum of Science, Boston, MA | |
| Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI | |
| SELECTED LECTURES, MEDIA AND HONORS | |
| 2019 | Brattleboro Museum & Art Center: “ARTIST TALK: Jackie Abrams and Deidre Scherer”, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2015 | Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association Forum, keynote: “Listening With Your Eyes”, Orlando, FL |
| 2014 | NH Hospice & Palliative Care Fall Conference, keynote: Advancing the Conversation through Art, Bedford, NH |
| 2013 | BCTV, “Living and Dying”, artist interview, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2010 | Rhode Island School of Design, Alumni Association Award for Artistic Achievement, Providence, RI |
| 2009 | AARP Radio, “The Last Thread: Capturing the End of Life”, artist interview |
| 2008 | American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Humanities Award, Tampa, FL |
| 2007 | Rockwell’s film “Holding Our Own” featured artist with lecture & screening at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 2006 | Home Healthcare Hospice Community Services, 25th Annual, keynote speaker, Keene, NH |
| 2000 | The Open Society Institute: Project on Death in America, Fellowship Award |
| 1996 | National Festival of the Embroiderers’ Guild, keynote speaker, Durham, England |
| 1994 | Vermont Arts Council, Fellowship Award also:1985 Hood Museum of Art, artist lecture, Hanover, NH |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Fiber Art Now, “Excellence in Fibers X”, pg. 59 full image, detail, and artist quote, January 2025 | |
| The Commons, “Tour of Transition”, Annie Landenberger, July 17, 2024 | |
| Vermont Art Guide, “Warp and Weft: The Material Experience of Deidre Scherer”, Ric Kasini Kadour, 2019 | |
| Surface Design Journal, “Wisconsin Museum”, image of “Convergence”, Summer 2017 | |
| Intl. Journal of Education Through Art, “Empathy & aesthetic experience…”, Arnold, Meggs & Greer, article, 2014 | |
| ARTS(Arts in Religious & Theological Studies), “In The Classroom”, Cindi Beth Johnson, article, January 2014 | |
| Vermont Magazine, “Breaking New Ground”, Elayne Clift, interview, May/June 2013 issue | |
| Arts & Healing Network, “Honoring the End of Life”, Mary Hobson, interview, artheals.org/ahn-news, Fall 2012 | |
| Advantage Hospice Magazine, “A Common Thread”, Sara Kelly, interview, Fall 2011 | |
| American Quilter, “The Visual Narrative”, Barbara Polston, interview, May 2010 | |
| Masters: Art Quilts, Major Works by Leading Artists by Martha Sielman, profile, Lark Books, 2008 | |
| Star-Banner, “Life by a Thread”, Lashonda Stinson, article, Nov. 2007 | |
| Seven Days, “The Art of Dying”, Pamela Polston, article, Nov 2006 | |
| Hope Magazine, “The Living End”, Jim Baldwin, article, Sept./Oct. 2004 | |
| The Boston Globe Magazine, “Encounter”, B.J. Roche, interview, May 12, 2002 | |
| Surrounded by Family and Friends, Deidre Scherer, catalogue, May 2001 | |
| Art in Embassies Program, “We the People”, Brussels, Belgium, catalogue, 2001 | |
| Deidre Scherer: Work in Fabric & Thread by Deidre Scherer, C&T Publishing, 1998 | |
| Fiberarts, “Mending Lives: Art and Healing”, Barbara Lee Smith, article, Sept./Oct. 1996 | |
| Embroidery, “Philosophy of an Artist”, Ruth Smith, interview, United Kingdom, Spring 1995 | |
| BMA Today, “In the Spotlight”, The Baltimore Museum of Art, profile, July/Aug. 1995 | |
| Celebrating the Stitch, profile: “Deidre Scherer”, Barbara Lee Smith, book, Taunton Press, 1991 | |
| Art Journal, “Feminist Art Criticism”, Cassandra Langer, article, Summer 1991 | |
| Hospice, “Deidre Scherer: Artist As Activist”, Richard Ewald, feature article & cover, Fall 1991 | |
| Threads Magazine, “Fabric Collage”, Deidre Scherer, feature article & cover, Apr./May 1988 | |
| SELECTED REVIEWS | |
| Artscope, “Mutual Respect Society: Scherer and Abrams…”, Elayne Clift, March 2019 | |
| Brattleboro Reformer, “Radiant at 25”, Ann Landenberger, July 12, 2017 | |
| Art New England, “Reunion Exhibit”, David Raymond, November/December 2016 | |
| Seven Days, “Full Circle Festival”, Pamela Polston, April 2014 | |
| The Daily Reflector, “Hanging on the Issues”, Tom Marine, Greenville, NC, January 19, 2009 | |
| Art New England, “Figurative Works In Fabric and Thread”, Arlene Distler, June/July 2006 | |
| Times Colonist, “Artist Stitches Fabric of Death”, Robert Amos, Victoria, B.C., March 2, 2006 | |
| Art New England, “In her intricate fiber works..”, Melissa McCarthy, April/May 2003 | |
| San Jose Mercury News, “Piecing Together Life and Death”, Jack Fischer, San Jose, CA, July 28, 2002 | |
| Art & Antiques, “Threads of Life”, May 2000 | |
| Last Acts, “Fabric Artist Becomes Voice for The Last Year”, Spring 1999 | |
| MS Magazine, “Arts Watch”, Chirs Kelsey, July/August 1998 | |
| Fiberarts, “Deidre Scherer: The Threaded Image”, Laura McGough, November/December 1998 | |
| New Age Journal, “Textures of the Soul”, Trebbe Johnson, July/August 1997 | |
| Syracuse Herald American, “The Transition in Dying”, Sherry Chayat, Syracuse, NY, November 9, 1997 | |
| The Boston Globe, “Keene Exhibit Features…Strong Work”, Boston, MA, June 19, 1994 | |
| Artweek, “Expressing the Inexpressible”, Edie Meidav, January 1992 | |
| SELECTED REPRODUCTIONS | |
| The Hastings Center Report; cover, Special Report Spring 2024 | |
| Plough Quarterly, front inside cover, Issue 30, Winter 2022 | |
| Johns Hopkins University Press, cover, “Perspectives In Biology and Medicine”, 2017 | |
| An Elders Pledge, poster, Syracuse Cultural Workers, 2012 | |
| OWL 2010 Mother’s Day Report, cover and interior, Older Women’s League, Washington, DC, May 2010 | |
| The Hastings Center Report; covers, March 2003, December 2005, November 2008, Special Report 2018, and Spring 2024 | |
| American Journal of Nursing, cover & interiors, May 2002 through November 2003 | |
| Journal of the American Medical Association, interior, November 2000 | |
| Threads of Experience, book cover and interior images by Deidre Scherer, Papier-Mache, 1996 | |
| Frontline…Geriatric Disorders, cover, Yamada Medical Service, Japan, 1992 | |
| When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, book cover & poster, Papier-Mache, 1987 | |
| EDUCATION | B.F.A. 1967, Rhode Island School of Design DOB: December 1944 |