Caitlin Cherry
Caitlin Cherry | |
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Born | 1987 Chicago, Illinois |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University |
Known for | Painting |
Caitlin Cherry (b. in Chicago, 1987) is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator.[1]
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]
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.
She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.[11]
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.[12]
Awards and fellowships[]
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency (2016).[13]
- Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2015).[14]
- Lotos Foundation Fellowship (2012).[15]
- Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University (2009).
References[]
- ^ "CV - caitlincherry.com". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ https://www.luisdejesus.com/artists/caitlin-cherry2
- ^ "Caitlin Cherry". VCUarts Department of Painting + Printmaking. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Cherry, Caitlin". 216.197.120.164. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ https://www.artillerymag.com/caitlin-cherry-zackary-drucker/
- ^ https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/caitlin-cherry-62639/
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
- ^ "Residency". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Artist Caitlin Cherry Wins Annenberg Fellowship". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Prize Recipients". The Lotos Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
External links[]
- Living people
- African-American women artists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- Virginia Commonwealth University faculty
- 1987 births
- American women academics