Mary Sherman is an artist, writer and the director of the internationally acclaimed artists-run TransCultural Exchange, which she founded in Chicago in 1988. Her artistic practice explores the intersection of technology, fine arts, scientific inquiry and aesthetic research, taking the form of multi-modal installations, performances and writings. In 2016, Leonardo Electronic Almanac/MIT Press published Mary Sherman, What if You Could Hear a Painting, focusing on her trajectory from purely visual to multi-sensory works. She has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, four Creative Capital’s On our Radar recognitions and four Fulbright Specialist Grants, among others. She also has served as an artist-in-residence at such institutions as MIT, the Taipei Artist Village and the Cité Internationale des arts, and lectured at a variety of institutions including at Freie Universität (Berlin), Goldsmith, Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Northwestern University, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, MACRO-ASILO (Rome), and the Université du Québec à Montréal, among others.  Her works have been shown at numerous institutions, including Taipei’s Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing’s Central Conservatory, Vienna’s WUK Kunsthalle, Trondheim’s Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Science and Technology, Montreal’s International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN)/Oboro, Seoul’s Kwanghoon Gallery and New York’s Trans Hudson Gallery. Her over two decades of writing include catalog texts, scholarly essays and more than 400 interviews, art reviews and think pieces for national and international magazines, journals and newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe and ArtNews). Most recently she published a think piece on the artist Camille Claudel for Hyperallergic, Additionally, she teaches at Boston College and, in 2010, served as the interim Associate Director of MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology.