Caitlin Cherry facts for kids

Caitlin Cherry (born 1987) is an African-American artist. She is known for her paintings and sculptures. She also works as an educator.

Early Life and Education

Caitlin Cherry was born in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. She studied art at several well-known schools. In 2010, she earned her first degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She then received her master's degree from Columbia University in 2012. Before that, she also attended the Yale University Summer School of Art in 2009.

Art and Career

Caitlin Cherry is a professor of Painting and Printmaking. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2021, she helped create an online art education program. It is called Dark Study. This program aims to make art education more fair and accessible. It helps address issues of fairness in universities.

Cherry's art explores important ideas. She often looks at how black women are shown in art. She also examines how power structures work. Her artwork uses different methods. She combines sculpture, installations, and painting.

Exhibitions and Art Shows

Caitlin Cherry has shown her art in many places. She has had both solo shows and group shows. A solo show means only her art is displayed. A group show features art from many artists.

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Her 2019 show, Thread Ripper, was at the Luis De Jesus gallery in Los Angeles. It received good reviews from art magazines. Other important solo shows include Monster Energy in 2017. This show was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

In 2013, she had a show called Hero Safe at the Brooklyn Museum. This show was part of a special project. It was called Raw/Cooked. The project invited Brooklyn artists to have their first big museum shows. Cherry was the ninth artist in this series. For her show, she made large wooden structures. These were inspired by drawings from Leonardo da Vinci. They held up her paintings. One example is her work Dual Capable Catapult Artcraft "Your Last Supper, Sucker," from 2013.

Her art has also been shown at:

• Providence College Galleries in Providence, Rhode Island (2018)
• Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia (2018)
• University Museum of Contemporary Art at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (2017)
• The Brooklyn Museum as part of the Raw/Cooked series (2013)

Group Exhibitions

Cherry's work has been part of many group shows. These include:

• Opulence at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (2022)
• Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm at Canada Gallery, New York City (2021)
• A Wild ... Beyond: ApocalypseRN at Performance Space, New York (2018)
• Punch curated by Nina Chanel Abney at Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2018)
• Touchstone at American Medium, New York (2018)
• The Sun is Gone but We Have the Light at Unclebrother/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Hancock, NY (2018)
• Soul Recordings at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
• Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art at UMOCA, Salt Lake City, Utah (2016)
• Banksy's Dismaland Bemusement Park in Weston-super-Mare, UK (2015)
• This is What Sculpture Looks Like at Postmasters Gallery, New York (2014)
• Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2012)

In 2019, her work was part of a traveling exhibition. It was called Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.

In July and August 2020, the Luis De Jesus gallery in Los Angeles held an online show. It was called Corps Sonore. This show featured Cherry's paintings and digital collages.

Awards and Fellowships

Caitlin Cherry has received several important awards and fellowships. These honors help artists continue their work.

• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency (2016)
• Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2015)
• Lotos Foundation Fellowship (2012)
• Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University (2009)

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