Caitlin Cherry

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

Caitlin Cherry
Born1987
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materArt Institute of Chicago, Columbia University
Known forPainting

Education

Caitlin Cherry received her MFA from Columbia University in 2012 and her BFA 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, CT in 2009. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.[3]

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

Career

Cherry has presented in various group and solo exhibitions.[4] Her 2019 exhibition "Thread Ripper" at Luis De Jesus in Los Angeles received positive reviews in Art in America and Artillery Magazine. [5][6] Other notable exhibitions include "Monster Energy" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2017, and "Hero Safe" at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013, which consisted of three painting-installations for the Raw/Cooked project.[7][8] Raw/Cooked was a series of projects by Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Museum to show their first major museum exhibitions.[7] She was the ninth solo artist in the series.[7] 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.[7]

Her work explores different topics, including the representation and visibility of black women as they relate to institutional power structures and security.[9] She uses mixed techniques to do her work, combining sculpture, installation, and painting.[10]

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 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.

In July and August of 2020, Los Angeles' Luis De Jesus gallery presented Corps Sonore, an online/virtual exhibition of Cherry's paintings and digital collages.[11]

Awards and fellowships
  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency (2016).[12]
  • Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2015).[13]
  • Lotos Foundation Fellowship (2012).[14]
  • Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University (2009).

References
  1. "CV - caitlincherry.com". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  2. https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/caitlin-cherry2
  3. "Caitlin Cherry". VCUarts Department of Painting + Printmaking. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  4. "Cherry, Caitlin". 216.197.120.164. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  5. https://www.artillerymag.com/caitlin-cherry-zackary-drucker/
  6. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/caitlin-cherry-62639/
  7. "Brooklyn Museum: Raw/Cooked: Caitlin Cherry". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  8. Kennedy, Randy (2013-05-31). "She's Rearming Leonardo's Ideas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  9. Kuennen, Joel (2019-03-01). "Caitlin Cherry". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  10. Pundyk, Anne Sherwood (2014-07-15). "This is what sculpture looks like". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  11. "Caitlin Cherry on digital abstraction and Black femininity". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  12. "Residency". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  13. "Artist Caitlin Cherry Wins Annenberg Fellowship". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  14. "Prize Recipients". The Lotos Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
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