Sonia Landy Sheridan

Sonia Landy Sheridan
Sonia Sheridan at her studio in Chicago
Born	(1925-04-10)10 April 1925 Newark, Ohio
Nationality	American
Education	Hunter College Columbia University University of Illinois
Known for	Generative art
Website	http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/59339?search_no=1&index=3

Sonia Landy Sheridan (Newark, Ohio, April 10, 1925), is an American artist, founder of a generative art department called Generative Systems, professor emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and editor of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology.

Sonia Landy Sheridan was born on April 10, 1925, in Newark, Ohio. She made her studies in visual arts at the Hunter College in New York City between 1941 and 1945. Between 1946 and 1947, she attended Columbia University and, between 1948 and 1949, she finished her postgraduate studies at the University of Illinois. Also, she studied at the San Jose City College in 1952.

In 1957, she moved with her husband, James E. Sheridan, to Taiwan and, during their stay, she attended the National Taiwan Normal University. In 1961, back in the United States, she finished her studies in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts

In the 1960s, she began to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded in 1970 a new department called Generative Systems, which focused on the investigation of artistic use of new technologies emerging in that period, for example the world's first color , the 3M Color in Color Machine. In the meantime, she continued with her artwork, and in 1974 she made an exhibition at the MoMA of New York together with Keith Smith.