David Benjamin Sherry

b. 1981
United States

“The longer you look, the longer you reflect on the land in this place and the motive force of color. There’s a kind of poetic distillation that happens from the experience of seeing a photograph.”

– David Benjamin Sherry

Available Works
Sleeping Deliverance (Iceberg, Antartica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Sleeping Deliverance (Iceberg, Antartica), 2025

C-type print
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Requiem, (Iceberg, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Requiem, (Iceberg, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
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Liberation, (Brash Ice, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Liberation, (Brash Ice, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
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Kingdom Come, (Glacier, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Kingdom Come, (Glacier, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
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Rising, (Glacier, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Rising, (Glacier, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
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Transformer (Iceberg, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Transformer (Iceberg, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
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Future, (Iceberg, Antarctica)

David Benjamin Sherry

Future, (Iceberg, Antarctica), 2025

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Winter Morning Fog Bridalveil Falls Yosemite California

David Benjamin Sherry

Winter Morning Fog Bridalveil Falls Yosemite California, 2013

C-type print
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Winter Morning Fog Bridalveil Falls Yosemite California

David Benjamin Sherry

Winter Morning Fog Bridalveil Falls Yosemite California, 2013

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Joshua Tree, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada

David Benjamin Sherry

Joshua Tree, Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada, 2017

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse
Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

David Benjamin Sherry

Sunset on the Sierra Del Carmen Mountains along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 2020

C-type print
Signed and numbered on label fixed to reverse

Biography

David Benjamin Sherry’s work challenges the established traditions of the American landscape genre, in particular exploring depictions of the American West.

His large-scale photographs, rendered in vibrant monochromatic colour, offer an alternative to the hetero-male tradition. Sherry’s work exists at the boundary between the contemporary and the traditional. Using a traditional 8 x 10 inch camera his work expresses a concern for the rapidly changing landscape and the contemporary condition. 

Sherry (born 1981) studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Visual Art before graduating with an MFA in photography from Yale University in 2007. His work has been the subject of the monographs, It’s Time (2010); Quantum Light (2013); Earth Changes (2015); American Monuments (2015) and most recently Pink Genesis (2022). His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, PS1 MoMA, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, and the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona. His work is held in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, The Saatchi Collection, London, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Florida, and The Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, CA. He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Film: David Benjamin Sherry on Colour Photography and Antarctica

Journal

The Waves: David Benjamin Sherry Introduces His Exhibition

In Film

The Waves: David Benjamin Sherry Introduces His Exhibition

Exhibitions

The Waves

September 18 – October 18, 2025

The Waves

Mother

September 21 – October 21, 2023

Mother