Sherry Brody

Sherry Brody ( – ) was an American artist and pioneering member of the feminist art movement. Brody is known for her work on the Womanhouse project. Her sculpture, The Dollhouse, is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art collection. She died January 30, 2015.

Career In 1971 Brody was invited by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro to participate in Womanhouse. Brody collaborated with Schapiro to create The Dollhouse. This included a room within Womanhouse and a sculptural object in the form of an actual dollhouse featuring belongings gathered from women around the world in six different rooms: a parlor, a kitchen, a Hollywood star’s bedroom, a “harem” room, a nursery, and, an artist’s studio. Dollhouse was one of the works in Womanhouse, the installation and performance space organized by Shapiro and Chicago and sponsored by CalArts in 1972.

Brody appears in the 1974 documentary by Johanna Demeriakas, Womanhouse.

In 2019 the Womanhouse project of which Brody made a significant contribution, was included in The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age by the New York Times.

The 2020 MOCA exhibition With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 included Brody and Schapiro's Dollhouse sculpture.

Significant works The Dollhouse Room – by Sherry Brody, Miriam Schapiro. According to Schapiro, The Dollhouse Room juxtaposes themes of "supposed safety and comfort in the home" with "terrors existing within its walls".