Gerald Sheffield 

Gerald Euhon Sheffield II is an artist and educator living and working in Massachusetts and New York. His studio discipline is based in critical and site-specific research, developing a collaborative archive of material artifacts, and fluid dialogues between art, design, and public discourse. Sheffield’s professional background consists of a diversity of institutions and collaborations across borders. He served in the United States Army for eight years as a Visual Communications and Military Intelligence Public Affairs specialist in Paraguay, Guatemala, Brazil, and Kuwait. He deployed to Iraq from 2007-2008, working alongside Iraqi civilians and community leaders during the Iraqi Reconstruction campaign.

Sheffield received a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the United States Armed Forces Meritorious Service Medal, the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, and JUNCTURE Human Rights Research and Travel Fellowship in South Africa. He recently completed a Fulbright Research Grant in Samarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan - researching the Islamic architecture of the Silk Road and its influence on the tolerance and diversity of Central Asian Muslim society.

Sheffield currently teaches Foundation Drawing at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and Structural Drawing at The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is working on a long-term book collaboration with Uzbek-American Poet Zahra Saed regarding Harlem Renaissance poet - Langston Hughes - travels to Soviet Central Asia.