Nicki Cherry, b. 1992, Lafayette, IN
Lives & works in Queens, NY & Chicago, IL
2019
MFA, Sculpture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2014
BA, Visual Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2024
I can be a woman for you, Slow Dance, Chicago, IL
2023
Doctrine of Signatures, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
2021
Speaking With Lions, the Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy
2023
An Adventure of Being, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Body Memory, GHOSTMACHINE, New York, NY
2022
Passing Through: Artists from DoVA 2012-2021, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL
Sift, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
he Third Body, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Hold Me, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Traces, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Terrarium, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY
2021
Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Group Exhibition, The Boiler at ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Too Full To Cry, Shin Gallery, New York, NY
Ripe at Dawn, Yale Sculpture MFA Exhibition, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2018
Words Cannot Express, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017
You Can Get In and Not Do Anything, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016
OPEN, Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL
Alumni Weekend Art Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL
2015
riding color waves, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, IL
F.A.M., Autotelic Studios, Chicago, IL
2014
If They Mated, The Honey Hole, Chicago, IL
11:11, Kitchen Space, Chicago, IL
Hot Box, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
33% more free, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL
2023
Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2022
NARS Foundation International Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Summer Painting and Sculpture Intensive, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2022
AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Visual Arts Grant, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2021
City Artist Corps Grant, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
Finalist: Monira Foundation Fellowship, Jersey City, NY
2019-2021
UrbanGlass Workshop Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Karacabey Levni Sinanoglu Scholarship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Doctrine of Signatures, exhibition catalog with texts by Tung Chau and Dominika Tyclz, New York, NY
2023
Doctrine of Signatures: A conversation with Nicki Cherry and Dominika Tylcz, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (lecture)
Undergraduate Junior Seminar, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (lecture and visiting artist)
2022
Belonging, Vulnerability, and the Tenacity of Nature with Nicki Cherry, Allison Panzironi, and Lillian Shtereva, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY (lecture)
2021
Artist talk with Claire Chamberless, Matthew Garrison, Joseph Morris, and Nicki Cherry, Flux Factory, Queens, NY (lecture)
2019
Too Full To Cry: Panel Discussion moderated by Park McArthur, Shin Gallery, New York
2016
Leadership in the Arts, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (panelist)
Careers in the Arts, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (panelist)