Caitlin Cherry

Caitlin Cherry (b. in Chicago, 1987) is an African-American painter, sculptor, and educator.
Cherry has presented in various group and solo exhibitions. Her 2019 exhibition "Thread Ripper" at Luis De Jesus in Los Angeles received positive reviews in Art in America and Artillery Magazine. 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. Raw/Cooked was a series of projects by Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Museum to show their first major museum exhibitions. She was the ninth solo artist in the series. 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.
Her work explores different topics, including the representation and visibility of black women as they relate to institutional power structures and security. She uses mixed techniques to do her work, combining sculpture, installation, and painting.
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UH School of Art
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