NICKI CHERRY
b. 1992, Lafayette, IN, USA. Currently lives and works in Queens, NY, USA.
EDUCATION
2019
MFA in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2014
BA in Visual Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Boundary, Capsule, Shanghai, China
2025
Quadraphonic Crush, MAMA Projects, New York, NY, USA
2024
I can be a woman for you, Slow Dance, Chicago, IL, USA (catalog)
2023
Doctrine of Signatures, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalog)
2021
Speaking with Lions, The Border Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Capsule Filling, Capsule, Hong Kong, China
2024
Pathways, MAMA Projects, New York, NY, USA
Liquidation Totale, Pal Project, Paris, France (curated by Andy Rankin, Oblivion Collective)
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY, USA
2023
An Adventure of Being, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA, USA (catalog)
Body Memory, GHOSTMACHINE, New York, NY, USA
2022
Sift, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Passing Through: Artists from DoVA 2012-2021, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL, USA
The Third Body, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Traces, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Terrarium, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY, USA
2021
Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, USA
Group Exhibition, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019
Too Full To Cry: Part 2, Shin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Ripe at Dawn: Yale Sculpture MFA Exhibition, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
2018
Words Cannot Express, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
2017
You Can Get In and Not Do Anything, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
2016
OPEN, Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, IL, USA
Alumni Weekend Art Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2015
riding color waves, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, IL, USA
2014
If They Mated, The Honey Hole, Chicago, IL, USA
11:11, Kitchen Space, Chicago, IL, USA
Hot Box, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA, USA
33% more free: University of Chicago BA Thesis Exhibition, Reva and David Logan Center, Chicago, IL, USA
ART FAIRS
2025
NADA New York, MAMA Projects, New York, NY, USA
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2022
Café Royal Cultural Foundation Visual Grant, New York, NY, USA
Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Queens, NY, USA
AIM Fellowship, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY, USA
2021
New York City Artist Corps Grant, New York, NY, USA
Finalist: Monira Foundation Fellowship, Jersey City, NY, USA
2020
Nominee: Colene Brown Art Prize, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019-2021
UrbanGlass Workshop Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2018
Karacabey Levni Sinanoglu Scholarship recipient, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
RESIDENCIES
2025
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI, USA
2023
Surf Point Foundation, York, ME, USA
2022
NARS Foundation International Residency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2014
Tyler School of Art Summer Painting and Sculpture Intensive, Philadelphia, PA, USA
LECTURES & PANELS
2024
An afternoon with Nicki Cherry, Capsule Venice, Vience, Italy (lecture)
2023
Doctrine of Signatures: A conversation with Nicki Cherry and Dominika Tylcz, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, USA (lecture)
Undergraduate Junior Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (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, USA (lecture)
2021
Artist talk with Claire Chamberless, Matthew Garrison, Joseph Morris, and Nicki Cherry, Flux Factory, Queens, NY, USA (lecture)
2019
Too Full To Cry: A discussion moderated by Park McArthur, Shin Gallery, New York, USA
2016
Leadership in the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (panelist)
Careers in the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (panelist)
