Caitlin Cherry (born 1987)[1] is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator.
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 |
Early life and education
editCaitlin 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.
Art and career
editAs 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
editCherry 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Caitlin Cherry: Monster Energy". University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst. 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ "Caitlin Cherry - Artists - Luis de Jesus Los Angeles".
- ^ "Caitlin Cherry". VCUarts Department of Painting + Printmaking. Retrieved 2020-02-14.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The New Alternatives: Online Art Education Now". 14 June 2021.
- ^ Kuennen, Joel (2019-03-01). "Caitlin Cherry". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ Pundyk, Anne Sherwood (2014-07-15). "This is what sculpture looks like". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Cherry, Caitlin". 216.197.120.164. Archived from the original on 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ Osberg, Annabel (2019-01-23). "Caitlin Cherry; Zackary Drucker". Artillery Magazine. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ Kuennen, Joel (2019-03-01). "Caitlin Cherry". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d "Brooklyn Museum: Raw/Cooked: Caitlin Cherry". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ Kennedy, Randy (2013-05-31). "She's Rearming Leonardo's Ideas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "'Opulence'". 5 December 2022.
- ^ Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Caitlin Cherry on digital abstraction and Black femininity". www.artforum.com. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- ^ "Residency". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Archived from the original on 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Artist Caitlin Cherry Wins Annenberg Fellowship". www.artforum.com. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Prize Recipients". The Lotos Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.