Cherrie Yu, born in Xi’an, China in 1995, relocated to the U.S.A. in 2013. Her films and performances have shown at Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Roman Susan Gallery and Arts Club of Chicago, Wassaic Project in New York, and Chengdu Times Museum in China, the David Ireland House in San Francisco, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, and the Contemporary Calgary Museum in Canada.
She has been an artist in residence at ACRE Residency, Contemporary Calgary Museum, Monson Arts, Yaddo, McColl Center, Sharpe Walentas Studio program, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She was an awardee of the Kala Art Institute Media Award Fellowship in 2022, visiting artist at Emory University’s anthropology department, and a visiting teaching artist at the Visual Art department at UNC Charlotte. Starting the fall of 2025, she’ll be a Performance AIRspace Resident at the Abrons Art Center on the Lower east side, working on her evening length performance Daily Diversions.
At MacDowell, Yu worked on her upcoming video installation Verb List to be exhibited in her debut solo exhibition in Brooklyn in 2025. She experimented with various printmaking and papermaking techniques, trying out cyanotype as well as foraging local vegetation on the MacDowell property for screen fabrication for the installation.
