Nalini Deedee Cheriel | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Nalini Cheriel |
Also known as | Deedee Cheriel |
Born | Eugene, Oregon |
Genres | Punk rock, folk rock, Punk art Contemporary Art Street Art Riot Girrl |
Occupation(s) | Musician, Artist, Filmmaker |
Website | deedeecheriel |
Nalini "Deedee" Cheriel is a visual artist, musician and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California.
From the age of 19, Cheriel started out creating record covers and T-shirts for the Oregon music scene. She was a member of the band Adickdid, which was distributed by several labels including Yoyo Records and Kill Rock Stars. She also played in the bands Juned, [1] Teen Angels, and The Hindi Guns.
In 2001, Cheriel, along with friends Kurt Voss and Zoe Poledouris, created the film Down and Out With the Dolls. This film is loosely based on Cheriel's life as a musician and the stories she would tell Voss about this time of her life. After this film was released, Cheriel started a band with Voss The Hindi Guns in Los Angeles, California where she lives still. [2]
In Los Angeles, Cheriel continued work as a visual artist, showing at Several Galleries Including New Image Art, erry Karnowski Gallery, and Subliminal Projects. She has created several paintings which continue on the themes she explored in her music, as well as exploring new ones. [3] The main theme of her art, according to Cheriel, would be the attempts of people to connect to the world around them and to each other. Cheriel's interest in the relationship between man and our natural surroundings is apparent from the abundance of animals in her paintings. Cheriel is an environmentalist and political activist using animals to depict human emotions. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Into Action 2024 Chicago, IL August, 2024 Moon & Stars: Los Angeles Asian American Women in Art/ BG Gallery (Los Angeles) May 2024 Artshare: LA Legacy / LA ART SHARE (Los Angeles, CA) April 2024
Artists For ERA / Virginia Museum of History and Culture (Richmond,Virginia) February, 2023 California Dreamin / Dorado 806 Projects (Los Angeles, CA) February, 2023
Modern Folk/ Stephanie Chefas Gallery (Portland, OR) January, 2022 Cat Art Show/ China Town Arts (Los Angeles CA) October, 2022 Art For Peace in Ukraine with Yoko Ono and Cindy Sherman (Venice, CA) April, 2022 25 Year Anniversary Show/ KP Projects (Los Angeles, CA) August, 2022 Neutra / Neutra Museum (Los Angeles, CA) October, 2022
Chauvet Arts (Nashville, TN) August 2021 [9]
Witch Women (Venice, CA) February 2020 Dialect to the Eye Andenken/ Holdout Gallery (Portugal) September 2020 Curves at Battalion Gallery (Portugal) Geese Are Never Swans by Eva Clark, illustration for book published by Kobe Bryant [10]
Chroma KP Projects (Los Angeles CA) 2019
We Rise LA (Los Angeles) October 2018
TWENTY-ONE / Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) June 2017
Women of the New Contemporary / Artst Republic May 2017
Deedee Cheriel and Umar Rashid -Frowhawk - Campfire Gallery (SanFrancisco) 2016
Monniker Art Fair London 2018 BLOOM Art Fair/ Battalion Cologne Germany 2016 Art Market Artist Republic (Santa Monica) 2016
Platinum Blend (San Francisco) Modern Eden Project 2015 The Provocateurs Art Alliance (Chicago IL) 2015
Spaces // Squared (San Francisco) White Walls Gallery May 2014 Wider Than a Postcard (Portland, Or) Breeze Block Gallery 2014 Affordable Art Fair (London, UK) Coates and Scarry 2014