Cherrie Yu is an artist born in Xi’an, China and lives in the United States. She works in choreography, moving images, writing and installation. Her practice explores the transmission of embodied knowledge, the critical functions of the archival form, and the idea of the artist as amateur. She received a BA in English from the College of William and Mary in 2017, and a MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute in 2019. She has produced dance films, lecture performances, and documentaries in the past few years, and she continues to form collaborative relationships with artists and non-artists alike. Recently she is thinking about questions such as moving images as a storage for collective memory, and the function of avant-garde art in relation to the forces of colonial dispossession. Besides being a professional artist, she is also a practitioner of table tennis.
She has been an artist in residence at McColl Center, Yaddo, Anderson Center, Kala Art Institute and Sharpe Walentas Program. Her works in choreography, moving image and installation have been exhibited at ICA in Maine, Mint Museum in North Carolina, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA, Gallery 400 and Museum of Contemporary photography in Chicago, IL, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research and Pageant Space in New York.
