Sheridan is an artist-naturalist with BFAs in Illustration and Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She focuses her work on animals – in life and death – and how they interact with the environment, other animals, and humans. She maintains her own taxidermy practice and has worked extensively at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard where she improved her knowledge of natural history. In 2013 Sheridan served as the youngest participant aboard the Antigua during a summer residency voyage for artists and scientists to Svalbard with the Arctic Circle Program.