Caitlin Cherry | |
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| Born | 1987 (age 36–37) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | cargocollective |
Caitlin Cherry (born 1987) [1] is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator.
Caitlin Cherry was born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Cherry received her MFA degree from Columbia University in 2012; and her BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. [2] She also participated in the Yale University Summer School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut in 2009.
As of 2020, Cherry serves as assistant professor of Painting + Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. [3] In 2021, Cherry formed a virtual, alternative arts education program entitled Dark Study, along with artist Nicole Maloof. The program seeks to offset the hierarchical structure in universities while addressing racial and economic inequities. [4]
Cherry's work explores different topics, including the representation and visibility of black women as they relate to institutional power structures and security. [5] She uses mixed techniques to do her work, combining sculpture, installation, and painting. [6]
Cherry has presented in various group and solo exhibitions. [7] Her 2019 exhibition, Thread Ripper at Luis De Jesus gallery in Los Angeles received positive reviews in Art in America and Artillery Magazine. [8] [9] Other notable exhibitions include, Monster Energy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2017, [10] and Hero Safe at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013, which consisted of three painting-installations for the Raw/Cooked project. [11] [12] Raw/Cooked was a series of projects by Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Museum to show their first major museum exhibitions. [11] She was the ninth solo artist in the series. [11] She was inspired to build large-scale wooden weapons, based on drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, that act as supports for her paintings, such as Dual Capable Catapult Artcraft "Your Last Supper, Sucker," 2013. [11]
Her work has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI (2018); Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2018); University Museum of Contemporary Art at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2017); and at The Brooklyn Museum as part of the Raw/Cooked series curated by Eugenie Tsai (2013).
Group exhibitions include Opulence at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (2022); [13] Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm at Canada Gallery, NYC (2021); [14] A Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN (2018) at Performance Space, New York; Punch (2018) curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch, New York; Touchstone (2018) at American Medium, New York; The Sun is Gone but We Have the Light (2018) at Unclebrother/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Hancock, NY; Soul Recordings at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles; Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpturein Contemporary Art (2016) at UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; Banksy's Dismaland Bemusement Park (2015) in Weston-super-Mare, UK; This is What Sculpture Looks Like (2014) at Postmasters Gallery, New York; and Fore (2012) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. [15]
In July and August 2020, Los Angeles' Luis De Jesus gallery presented Corps Sonore, an online/virtual exhibition of Cherry's paintings and digital collages. [16]
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