Caitlin Cherry

Caitlin Cherry (born 1987)[1] is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator.

Caitlin Cherry
Born1987 (age 35–36)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Columbia University
Known forPainting
Websitecargocollective.com/caitlincherry

Early life and education

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.

Caitlin Cherry: Sapiosexual Leviathan, 2018, oil on canvas, 72½ inches square

Art and career

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]

Exhibitions

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 Sculpture in 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]

Awards and fellowships
  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency (2016).[17]
  • Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2015).[18]
  • Lotos Foundation Fellowship (2012).[19]
  • Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University (2009).

References
  1. "Caitlin Cherry: Monster Energy". University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst. 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. "Caitlin Cherry - Artists - Luis de Jesus Los Angeles".
  3. "Caitlin Cherry". VCUarts Department of Painting + Printmaking. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  4. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/artist-run-online-education-1234595631/
  5. Kuennen, Joel (2019-03-01). "Caitlin Cherry". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  6. Pundyk, Anne Sherwood (2014-07-15). "This is what sculpture looks like". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  7. "Cherry, Caitlin". 216.197.120.164. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  8. Osberg, Annabel (2019-01-23). "Caitlin Cherry; Zackary Drucker". Artillery Magazine. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  9. Kuennen, Joel (2019-03-01). "Caitlin Cherry". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  10. Pfarrer, Steve (April 12, 2017). "'Monster Energy': UMCA features exhibits by Brooklyn artist Caitlin Cherry and acclaimed printmaker Kara Walker". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Archived from the original on 2017-04-16.
  11. "Brooklyn Museum: Raw/Cooked: Caitlin Cherry". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  12. Kennedy, Randy (2013-05-31). "She's Rearming Leonardo's Ideas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  13. https://thereader.com/2022/12/05/opulence/
  14. Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm
  15. Sargent, Antwaun (2020). Young, gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. New York, NY: D.A.P. pp. 73–75. ISBN 9781942884590.
  16. "Caitlin Cherry on digital abstraction and Black femininity". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  17. "Residency". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  18. "Artist Caitlin Cherry Wins Annenberg Fellowship". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  19. "Prize Recipients". The Lotos Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
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