SHERRY CORDOVA California, usa
SELECT JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Put a Pin in It!, SAND & DUST Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2026 Things Unsaid, Precious Collective & Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry at Munich Jewelry Week, Germany
2024 – 2026 Alegría, jewels, Touring exhibition curated by Luis Acosta, 9 Countries in Europe
2025 Encoded Bodies, Code & Craft, London, UK
2025 I Don’t Shine, I have something to say, Venice Design Week, Venice, Italy
2025 USA Jewelry Tour, NYC Jewelry Week, representative for California, Online
2025 Bridging the Bay: Expanding Connections, MAG SF @ the ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2025, 2024 & 2022 The Earring Show, Craft Council British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2024 Mineral Minded, SNAG @ Tucson, AZ, USA
2023 The Flame Within: Metal Artistry Unleashed, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2021 Forge the Future, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2012 Political Show Contemporary Jewelry, A Jeweler’s Art, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
2009 Urban Renaissance: New Visions of Jewelry and Sculpture, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
2008 Metals in Motion: the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
2007 Imaginations in Metal, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2020 Biennial Member Exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
2013 Mind, Heart & Hand: From the Metal Artist’s Studio: A Juried Exhibition of Work by the Members of the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
DUO EXHBITION
Augt – Nov 2009, Sherry Cordova “New Jewelry” & Fran Grinels “Splash of Gold”, Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry & Art, Oakland, CA, USA
PUBLICATIONS
500 Knives, Lark Books, “Khanjar” Letter Opener.
500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books, “Eye of the Hurricane” Pendant..
The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry: A Complete Guide to Essential Techniques by Joanna Gollberg “Fraternal Triplets” Filigree Pendants
Jewelry Zine, January 2009, three articles: Inspiration; Creation, Accessible Patinas, Starting an Arts Group
EDUCATION
Metalsmithing: Self-directed studies
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
B.S. Applied Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
RECOGNITION
MAG / Maxwell | Hanrahan Foundation Grant, May 2026
Finalist, 2007 Saul Bell International Design Award Competition, Silver Category
2nd in Wearable Art in ENDANGERED: Art for Apes, Art & Photography 2016, Art Basel Miami, FL, USA
PRESS
Artist Spotlight Interview, Obanj Digital Atelier online magazine, 2020
Metal Art Guild, San Francisco, Artist of the Month Profile, Dec 2018
Metal Art Guild, San Francisco, Artist Profile, Summer 2011
“Soul’s Medal of Honor”, Oakland Magazine Sep/Oct 2009
Show Offs: Local Artists Open Their Studio Doors, The Sunnyvale Sun, April 2008
AFFILIATIONS
Elevate Our Art team member, 2026 – present
Metal Arts Guild, San Francisco, CA member 2007 – present
MBMAG aka Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild. Digital Content Director 2021 – 2025
MBMAG, member 2007 – present
Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley (defunct) Co-Founder & President 2007-2008
Society of North American Goldsmiths 2004 – present
Precious Collective 2025 – present
American Craft Council 2009 – 2015, 2023 – present
Art Jewelry Forum 2025 – present
GALLERY INSTALLATIONS
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FORMER GALLERY INSTALLATIONS
Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art, Oakland, CA, USA
Pacific Art League Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Personal FX, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Mendocino Art Center Gallery, Mendocino, CA, USA
Jody Royee Gallery, Carmel, CA, USA
Grand Avenue Artworks!, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Solo Gallery, Los Gatos, CA, USA
Eriksen Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
EXHIBITION COORDINATION
Exhibition organizer, “Metals in Motion: the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild” at the Collector’s Gallery of the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; March – April 2008
Exhibition organizer, “MAASV Artists at the Collectors Gallery: Yehuda Tassa, Yemenite Filigree Artist” at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; May – Aug 2008
Exhibition team – digital content and logistics, MBMAG, 2021-2025