Cheryle St. Onge was born in Worcester, MA and grew up on college campuses as the only child of a physics professor and a painter. She received an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. St. Onge's work focuses on the crossover of art and science and photography's ability to distill our sense of time and curiosity. She makes pictures predominantly with an 8x10 view camera and considers her work a collaborative process.
Her photographs have been widely exhibited, most notably at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Princeton University, the American Institute of Architects traveling exhibition. She has received numerous awards and residences, among them a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Critical Mass Finalist Exhibition Award, Polaroid Materials Artist Support Grant, and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Fellowship. Her photographs are in many private and public collections, including the University of New Mexico Art Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cassilhaus Collection, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
