2005	Distinguished Artist of 2005, Mc Knight Foundation
2001	Minnesota Crafts Council Lifetime Achievement Award
2000	Rochester Art Center Lifetime Achievement Award
1999	Bush Artist Fellowship, 1998-1999
1995	McKnight Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts, 1994-1995
1994	Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Fellowship Grant, 1993-1994
1993	Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
1983	YMCA Women of Achievement Award, Rochester, MN
1978	Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant

2008	SOFA, Sculpture Object and Functional Art, Chicago, IL, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Featured Sofa Artist 2008
2006	Folk Nouveau, Metro State University, St. Paul, MN
2006	The Art of Whimsy, Olmsted County Historical Society, Rochester, MN
2006	Evermore, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2006	Tooth and Claw: Creatures Imaginary and Real, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2006	Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2006	Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004	A View From America, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Australia, Helen Drutt
2004	Play Ball! Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
2004	Art Form, West Palm Beach, FL, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003	Greatest Show on Earth, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2003	Women On The Edge, Duane Reed Gallery St Louis, MO
2002	Of and About Clay, Gallery Hertz, Louisville, KY
2002	Northern Clay Center, Two Person Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2001	Minnesota with a Twist, Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1999	The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
1999	A Bountiful Beginning, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1999	Woman in the Weisman, Collection: Spirit of Seneca Falls , Frederick R. Weisman Art  Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1999	Brooching it Diplomatically, a Tribute to Madeline Albright, International Traveling  Exhibition
1999	Attitude and Action North American Figurative Jewelry Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, England
1999	The Jewelry Gallery at DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland
1999	Beadz! New Work by Contemporary Artists, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1999	Bright Bold & Beaded, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1999	Pure Vision, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1999	Pure Vision, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
1999	Pure Vision, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
1999	Pure Vision, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
1999	Pure Vision, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1998	Narratives International Jewellery Art Exhibition,   Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki Finland
1998	Joyce Scott & Friends, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1998	Pure Vision, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
1998	Passionate Obsessions, Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
1998	Pure Vision, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1997	In Pure Vision, Union Art Gallery, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1997	Pure Vision, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
1997	Pure Vision , Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1997	Myths and Magical Fantasies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1997	American Art Today/The Garden, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
1997	Birds, Thom Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1997	Embellished, The National Surface Design Conference, The Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KA
1997	Essentially Beads, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona
1997	Pure Vision , Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1997	Full Bloom, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1996	Schmuckszene 1996, Handwerkmesse, Munchen Germany
1995	McKnight Artists, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1995	Brilliant Stories, Arts America Program of the United States Information Agency, Touring Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Pakistan, Egypt 1992-1995
1995	Holiday Exhibition, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1995	Boxes, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
1993	International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University Art Gallery, University of Hawaii
1992	Day of the Dead, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992	Language of Jewelry, Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Rohskka Museum of Arts and Design, Goteborg, Sweden
1992	Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland, Taideteollisuusmuseo
1992	2nd Oregon Clay Invitational, Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
1991	Collage/Assemblage, Gallery I/O, New Orleans, LA
1991	Slippery When Wet, Invitational, Olson-Larson Galleries, Des Moines, lA
1991	Artist's Choice, Objects Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991	Objects, Olson-Larson Galleries, West Des Moines, IA
1990	American Dreams/American Extremes, Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1990	Provinciaal Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
1990	Two Person Exhibition, Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990	Art for the Holidays, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO