Art Practice is delighted and proud to announce that AP faculty alumna Katherine Sherwood and current Assistant Professor Cathy Lu have been awarded California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in the Visual Arts field.
Sherwood, who retired as a Professor of Painting in 2016, is the recipient of a $50,000 Legacy Artist Tier award. Sherwood’s solo exhibition Aggressive Women 1977-2025 is currently on view at George Adams Gallery (NYC) through November 1, 2026. Sherwood has exhibited internationally and has been the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Artist Fellowship in 1989, a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 1998, a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2005, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2006. She continues to be an activist for disability rights and social justice, founding and teaching the course Art, Medicine and Disability at UC Berkeley for over a decade, as well as playing an active role at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA, which supports art created by adults that have physical or intellectual disabilities.
Lu, who is in her second year of teaching in Art Practice, and directing our legacy ceramics program, is the recipient of a $10,000 Established Artist award. In spring 2027, Lu will be featured in the Further Triennial, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento with an installation entitled Cathy Lu: A Body Across Time. Her work has been exhibited widely in the Bay Area, CA and at The Armory Show, New York, NY; Art Basel Hong Kong; Chengdu Biennial; Aldrich Art Museum, CT; Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MCA Denver; Prospect 6 New Orleans; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow, and was a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner. Lu’s work has recently been included in the collection of the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Kadist, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Arts Commission Portsmouth Square public sculpture, SFMOMA, and private collections.
image caption: Cathy Lu, Passages, (detail) 2024. Stoneware, glaze and gold luster, 4 x 18 x 12 feet. Installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 New Orleans (May 23, 2025–August 24, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist.
image caption: Katherine Sherwood
You Will Find Me Forceful, 1978
Acrylic on panel
28 x 34 inches