Sherry Dobbin

Sherry Dobbin is a cultural strategist and producer with significant arts experience within the public realm.

Her over thirty years of work across the US and UK includes establishing strategic business plans for arts institutions and leadership of cultural programs and organizations. She has recently completed cultural strategies and delivery frameworks for London Bridge, Wembley Park and Exhibition Road Cultural Group in London. She was Creative Director for the Times Square Alliance and Founding Director of Times Square Arts, Νew York City, where she developed a dedicated arts program within one of the world’s largest and most successful Business Improvement Districts. In addition to developing the strategy and business plan, she curated for Times Square’s electronic billboards, public plazas, theatres and cinemas, as well as online platforms. Her internationally-recognized digital moving image series, “Midnight Moment,” is the largest and longest running digital art exhibition — globally synchronizing artist video is shown nightly across seven blocks of privately-owned electronic billboards. Prior to that, she was Director of Robert Wilson’s experimental performance center, The Watermill Center, and Project Director of arts-led regeneration initiatives throughout London and England. Other companies she worked with include Los Angeles Opera, Huntingdon Theatre Company, Boston Ballet, and partnership initiatives with Arts Council England East.

She holds a BFA in Theater Studies from Boston University, an MA in Art History in cross-disciplinary practice from University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts London for her work in arts-led regeneration.

Sherry Dobbin is a participant of the Onassis AiR (Inter)National Residency program for 2018-19.

As part of the Onassis AiR Pilot Artistic & Curatorial Research Residencies (2018), Sherry Dobbin conducted research to develop a proposal for a multi-disciplinary public art project. The concept activated the performing and moving image sectors with architects and citizens to create a city-wide engagement taking place throughout diverse neighbourhoods of Athens’ public gathering and transient spaces.