artist statement  |  resume  |  biography  |  awards & clients

biography, michael sheridan

Michael Sheridan is a filmmaker whose videosonic art and documentary work addresses issues of social development and the tipping point between order and chaos. Michael’s interest in these issues arises from his personal experience of families falling apart and reuniting, and societies teetering on the verge of collapse or recovering from conflict and disaster.

Michael’s artwork has been exhibited at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Digitas New Media Show and the G-A-S-P gallery in Boston. His work on documentaries has appeared on PBS, The Learning Channel, The Discovery Network and National Geographic TV. He has received numerous awards including those from the National Education Media Network, the Columbia International Film and Video Festival, the United Nations Association Film Festival, and EarthVision.

All of Michael’s work is influenced by his extensive travels throughout Europe, South Asia, Africa and the Americas. At twenty he set off to bicycle around the world. Seven years later he returned to the United States to work as an organizer on international issues of social and economic development. In the 90s he started traveling the world producing documentaries on issues of hunger, poverty and community development. His experiences traveling into some of the world’s most difficult situations influences his art-making.

Michael is currently teaching and producing new work in Indonesia as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. He has an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art.