Sherry Wiggins was born in 1955 in Bloomington, Indiana. Wiggins received her BFA in Sculpture in 1988 and her MFA in Sculpture in 2005 – both from the University of Colorado. Wiggins works from her home state of Colorado as a new media artist, sculptor, public artist and cultural organizer.

Wiggins’ work is reflective and participatory, centered around explorations of environmental, political and women’s issues. Wiggins examines our relationship to the landscape and the environment in installations which invoke intimacy and physical connection to specific surroundings. In digital and video pieces, Wiggins often places herself in relationship to various female figures such as: Simone de Beauvoir, Ava Gardner and Nancy Drew – inviting observers to examine themselves in these roles. The work also prompts the viewer to question the self/other relationship, as the artist inserts herself and her participants in open-ended narratives and situations. In recent work Wiggins interviewed participants in both the U.S. and the Middle East – transporting questions back and forth and creating a form of dialogue and thoughtful observation.

Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in Denver, Colorado, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah (Occupied Territories of Palestine), the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado, the Universidad Nacional in Leticia (Columbia), the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (Mexico). Wiggins has major outdoor works at the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, in Cherry Creek in Denver, Colorado as well as in private collections. She has received awards from the Colorado Council of the Arts and Humanities and the American Institute of Architects for her work.