A native of Vienna, Austria, Sherman lived in Paris until its occupation during World War II.
She left France for the United States in 1941 with a brief stay in a Trinidad concentration camp. She lived in Boston, where she learned English, before moving to New York where she studied painting with Norman Lewis. She is currently living in Los Angeles.

Her work is shown in galleries and is in private and public collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. Her history of adapting to different cultures, of surviving the dangers of war and her hope for peace and understanding played a strong part in shaping the project: Words and Images - A Portrait of Languages.

"Through language, the universal human expression, we can celebrate the unity of the human family. In the diversity of languages we can celebrate the beauty of our diversity." - Shawn Waggoner, from "Glass Art" magazine.