CHERYL POPE cv
B. Chicago
Current: New York and Chicago
EDUCATION
2010 Masters in Design: Fashion, Body, Garment, School of the Art Institute. Merit Scholarship. Chicago
2003 Bachelors in Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
2017 CertificateTraining: Scents of Provence, Grass Institute of Perfume, Grass, France
AWARDS
2017
Public Artist Award Recipient, Franklin Works, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Artist, Year of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2016
Mellon Fellowship Recipient, Kenyon College, Ohio
USA Artist Fellow Nominee
2015
3 Arts Award Recipient, Chicago, IL
Cramum Prize, Italy
USA Artist Fellow Nominee
2014
DCASE Studio Artist Residency Recipient, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2013
Art Verona 2014 Collectors Celeste Award, Italy
2008
Full Tuition Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute. Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Solo Exhibition, Rockford Museum of Art, IL
Solo Exhibition, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Solo Project, Flux, Atlanta, Georgia
2018
Solo Exhibition, Galleria Bianconi, Milan, Italy
2017
I’VE BEEN HEARD, Fort Ganesvort, NY
2016
WATCH YOUR STEP, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
(UN)TOLD, CUAC Arts Center, Utah
COMMUNITY IS BUILT ON EMPATHY, Kenyon College, Ohio
Objects for Listening, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
SIDE by SIDE, Williams Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2015
Art of the Americas, Denver Biennial, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
From Within, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Unfolding the Folds, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
2014
Museo d’Arte Gallarate, Italy
HOLD IT AGAINST ME, Galleria Bianconi. Milan. Italy
CHAIN REACTION, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2013
Just Yell, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
(In)Voluntary Acts, Julian Navarro Projects, New York, NY
2011
Matter of Fact, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
A Silent I, On the Wall, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Hand-Eye Coordination: Sports and Art, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
THREE TIMES IN A ROW. Beverly's. New York, NY
READY? OK!. Naughton Gallery, UK.
PROTEST BANNER LENDING LIBRARY. Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
ON THE INSIDE OUT. Richmond Center for Visual Arts. MI
GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS, Loyola University Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
DECLARATION, Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Winter Formal, Circle Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL
THIS TOO SHALL PASS, SO BE IT, Elijah Wheat Showroom, NYC, NY
THE CURATOR’S EGGS, (Selected by Neville Wakefield) Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC, NY
Make Art Not War, Weinberg-Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
SOCIALLY ENGAGED, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
I HEAR IT EVERYWHERE I GO, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CN
Diamonds, Rings & Courts: Sport is More than a Game, St. Johns University, NY
FAIR MARKET, Brickell City Center, Miami, FL
2016
Illinois Council Against Hand Gun Violence, Weinberg / Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Dark Matter, Eastern Illinois University, Bloomington, IL
March Madness, Fort Ganesvoort, NYC
Messages in the Street, Public Art Project curated by Allison Glenn, Chicago, IL
Jumbo Collection, Milan, Italy
Winter Experiment, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Word, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
2015
I AM THE MANY, The White House, Washington, D.C.
CHICAGO STATEMENTS, Biennale, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Celebrate, Kunsthalle Osnabrueck, Germany
Substrate, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Temporary Autonomous Zone, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Tangency, Public Installation, Osnabrueck, Germany
Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
2014
Prizm Art Fair, Museum of Architecture and Design, Miami, FL
Public Art Commission and Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Harder Glorious, Capital Skyline Hotel, Washington D.C.
Empathy and Risk, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Between Me and You, Vanity Projects. New York, NY
2013
The American Dream: (W)holy Grail, Chicago, IL
Landmarks Public Art Program, University of Austin, Austin, TX
A Digital Tale, Galleria Bianconi, Milan, Italy
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012
Echo Park Film Festival, Los Angeles
2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville
Koffer Kunst Chicago + Detroit, Künstlerhaus Speckstrasse. Hamburg, Germany
Mind the Gap?! Cheryl Pope and Carlo Zauli. Galleria Bianconi. Milan, Italy
A Silent I, Renas Gallery, Chicago , IL
'NU' (= 'now', 'naked') and 'Identity'. Designers Open, Leipzig, Germany
'NU' (= 'now', 'naked') and 'Identity'. Redfish Factory. Antwerp, Belgium
This Side of Paradise, No Longer Empty, New York, NY
Next Generation, Contemporary Wing, Washington D.C.
Wedding Crashers, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
2011
Shift Shape, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
2010
Bubble Raft, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Stories of Relativity, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Through the Looking Glass, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL
AIADO and Fashion Design Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Storefront, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Curiouser and Curiouser, Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Conscious<Infiltration/Intervention. School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
D’Mention, Creative Lounge. Chicago, IL
A Silent I. Lindblom Math and Science Academy. Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCE & SCREENINGS
2017
FIGHT NIGHT / THE NEUTRAL CORNER, Kenyon College , OH
UP AGAINST, Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia
JUST YELL: Gwendolyn Brooks, Art Institute of Chicago
2016
ROUND ONE, The Cultivist, NYC
POETIC PENALTY, Weinberg / Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL
WITHHELD, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
SIDE by SIDE, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
ONE- OFF: A Night of Poetry, Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
TRUTH as EVIDENCE, The White House, Washington, D.C.
JUST YELL: DC Team of Poets, The White House, Washington, D.C.
JUST YELL: Chicago Team of Poets, The White House, Washington, D.C.
JUST YELL: POETRY as SELF DEFENSE, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
WALK WITH ME #3 Ft. Phoenix Military Academy, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
DISTANCE of TIME, Kunsthalle Osnabruek, Germany
STACKS, Kunsthalle Osnabruek, Germany
2014
UP AGAINST, Autobody, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
INGRAVESCO, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
SILENCE the SILENCE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
WALK WITH ME #1 ft. Phoenix Military Academy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
BRING IN THE LIGHT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
WALK WITH ME #2, Ft. Street Poets Inc. Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angelos, CA
SPECULA SPECULORUM, Galleria Bianconi. Milan. Italy
2013
UP AGAINST, (screening)Museum of Contemporary Art Kunsthalle, Detroit, MI
DRIVE by in 5 ACTS, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
JUST YELL: I am / We are Creed, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
STACKS, Chance, Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea, L’Aquila, Italy
BALANCING STACKS, Isolda Arts Foundation, LaReta Projects and Galleria Bianconi. Milan, Italy
UP AGAINST, Echo Park Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
UP AGAINST, Heavy Rotation, Franklin Arts Center, Stamford, CT
2011
BALANCING STACKS, Emerson Dorsch Gallery and Locust Projects, Miami, FL
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2018
FLUX PROJECTS, Atlanta, GE
2017
Soho House Mural Project, Chicago, IL
Department of Cultural Affairs, Year of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
Art in Ad Places, NYC, NY
I’VE BEEN HEARD, Art Production Fund, NYC
2016
United States Embassy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, CA
Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Joan Flash Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES
2018
Artist Residency, Long Road Projects, FL
Queens Space Residency, New York
2017
Artist Lecture, University of Utah, UT
Artist Lecture, Kenyon College, OH
Artist Lecture, Flux Project, Atlanta, GE
Artist Lecture, Joan Flash Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL
Artist Workshop, Soho House, Chicago, IL
DEFENDING THE SELF, School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Creative Mornings, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Little Penny Performance Space, Atlanta, GE
Artist Lecture, St Johns University, Queens, NYC
Artist Lecture, Georgia State University , Chicago, IL
Panel Discussion, Soho House, Chicago, IL
2016
Artist Lecture, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art-Port Foundation Residency , Tel Aviv, Isreal
Homan Square, Shaperio Research Residency, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Liminal States: Conversations with Artists and Klaus Ottman, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Artist talk, Stateville Penitentiary, Illinois
Artist Lecture, Kenyon College, Ohio
Artist Lecture, Ontario School of Art and Design, Toronto
Artist Workshop, Ontario School of Art and Design, Toronto
Artist Lecture, Williams College, Massachusetts
Unlacing Sneakers, Panel discussion, Soho House Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Bloomington, IL
2015
Chicago Cultural Center Studio Artist Resident, Chicago, IL
Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
Self Defense Lecture and Workshop, Soho House Chicago, IL
The Physicality of Space, Artist Lecture, Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design, Denver, CO
2014
Museum of Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy
Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Art of Boxing, Panelist, Soho House, Chicago, IL
2013
Lecture, Altos De Chavon School of Design, La Romano, Dominican Republic
2012
Panelist, Nick Cave Soundsuits, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Artist Talk, Mandragoras Art Space, New York, NY
Lecture, Northwestern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2011
Visiting Artist, Mark Bradford Residency Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Lecture, Creative Agency Teen Program, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Lecture, Marwen Arts Organization, Chicago, IL
Lecture, Pictoplasma, Nick Cave and Soundsuitshop, Berlin, Germany
2010
Re-Wind and Respond. Professional Development Workshop: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Presenter for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago at the National Arts Education Association Conference,
Baltimore, MD
Re-act, Respond, Re-Impress, School Partnership Professional Development Workshop:
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Artist in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Critiquing Critique, Professional Development Workshop. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
2009
Designer and Facilitator, Summer Teacher Institute. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
One of Many. Professional Development Workshop, Chicago Public School System
This I Am. Professional Development Workshop, Chicago Public School System, Chicago, IL
Writing Through Contemporary Art. Professional Development Workshop for New Trier High School:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPY
2018
Brody, Danny. "PRIZEFIGHTER." Quietlunch. March 23, 2018
Dluzen, Robin and Zarley, B.David. "Hand Eye Coordination Examines Sports and Society Through Art. Chicago Magazine. January 26, 2018
2017
Sussman, Anna Louie. “Why Miami’s All-Women Art Fair Doesn’t Have Anything for Sale.” Artsy. December 8, 2017
Uszerowicz, Monica. “Timely, Exciting Work by Women Artists at Miami Art Week” Hyperallergic. December 11, 2017
Ramos, Cris. “The Artists of FAIR. A Chat With Cheryl Pope. Fordistas. Dec. 12, 2017
Zara, Janelle. “An All-Female Art Fair Takes on Gender Inequality With a Show at a Miami Shopping Mall”
ARTNET. Dec. 8, 2017
Hennessy, Christina. “Stamford art show ponders the American Dream.” Connecticut Post. Nov. 26, 2017
Johnson, Sunni. “Through the grit and the gauze, “Socially Engaged” cuts through to embodied identities.”
Oct. 31, 2017
Sierzputowski, Kate. “Bold Disobedience, A show curated by Chicago Teens.” Teen VOGUE, Aug. 30, 2017
Demarest, Erica. “Public Art to ‘Every Nook and Cranny’ In Chicaago, Mayor Says.” DNA INFO, June 23, 2017
Blouin Artinfo. “The Curators’ Eggs’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery.” July 7, 2017
Chen, Elaine. “Beyond the Ivory Tower, SAIC works toward community engagement in Lawndale.” Southside weekly, January 11, 2017
Carlos, Ballesteros, “These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements With Art,” THE NATION. April 18, 2017
Evans, Dayna. “What Does It Mean To Be A Woman In Sports?” New York Magazine. March 20, 2017
“March Madness in the Gallery,” The Art Newspaper. March 16, 2017
Olivieri, Daniel. “The Neutral Corner Merges Visual and Artistic Expression.” The Kenyon Collegian. February 16, 2017
Dunne, Carey. “A Gurellia Campaign is Replacing Ads with Art Around New York City.” Hyperallergic. January 4, 2017
2016
“Cheryl Pope and the Poetics of Yelling,” ART 21 Blog. 2016
Bowen, Allison, Artwork on gun violence can’t keep up with Chicago’s shootings. Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2016
ART 50 2016, New City, Chicago, IL, September 15, 2016
Schechter, Fran. “Cheryl Pope’s Objects For Listening challenges Pride Stereotypes”. NOW, June 29, 2016
Onsgard, Kristen, “Chicago’s Billboards Will Be Overtaken By Modern Art Later This Month,” Chicagoist, Aug 19,
2016
Cummings, Faith, “Artists Brawl at the Cultivist’s Anniversary Bash,” Artnet News, May 5, 2016
Boyd, Bently, “Creative Collaboration: Along the Middle Path.” Kenyon News. April 25, 2016
Zhang, Lisa. “Pope Talks Campus Controversies,” The Williams Records. March 9, 2016
Boucher, Brian. “Hank Willis Thomas Turns Curator Mixing Politics and Sports in March Madness.”
Artnet News. March 16, 2016
Hill, Scotti. “Contemporary art gallery CUAC addresses inner-city gun violence in latest exhibition.”
Desert News. February 20, 2016
Cataldo, Angelica, “Unrest in America on Display in Tarble,” Daily Eastern News. August, 25, 2016
Barton, Britt, “Performing the Weight of Healing. A Review of Cheryl Pope at Monique Meloche Gallery.”
New City, Dec. 2016
2015
Lueddmann, Stefan.“Balancing Stacks“ in der Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrueker Zeitung. February 27, 2015
Bullman, Tom. Cheryl Pope Scherbenhaufen in Osnabrueker Kunsthalle. Osnabrueker Zeitung. March 3, 2015
2014
Callis, Violet. “Silencing Silence: JUST YELL at the MCA. FNEWS Magazine, February 17, 2014
Provocative and Sexually Explicit Content Defines Miami Performance Project, ARTNET News, December 4, 2014
Ryznik, Melena. Art Is a Splash, Grand and Tiny, in Miami, Art Basel Miami Stretches Into Little
Haiti. New York Times, Art and Design, December 6, 2014
Morgenstern, Hans. Women-Led "Auto Body" Explores Breadth of Human Emotion Through Film, Performance. Miami New Times. December 5, 2014
Steinhauer, Jillian. In a Former Auto Body Shop in Miami, Video and Performance Art by Women. HyperAllergic. December 6, 2014
2013
Foumberg, Jason. Gun Violence Wears a Cheerleading Uniform in Cheryl Pope’s New Exhibit. Chicago Magazine,
June 21, 2013
Kuennen, Joel. An Artist’s Responsibility. Artslant. June 28, 2013
Meneghetti, Paolo. Mind the Gap, Aesthetics Review, Venice Culture Web TV, Venice Italy
2012
Goukassian, Elena. “No Longer Empty and Art in Odd Places: Unconventional Public Art in New York.”
Sculpture Magazine, Sept. 2012, Vol. 31. No.7, p.20
Rojo, Jamie and Harrington, Steven. “Poorhouse for the Rich” Revitalized by the Arts. Huffington PostMarch 27, 2012
VF AGENDA, This Side of Paradise, Vanity Fair. April 24, 2012
Kennedy, Randy. Uptown Palazzo Project. Art and Design. New York Times. March 19, 2012
Ramanathan, Lavanya. Next Generation: Selections by Artists from the 30 Americans Collection,
The Washington Post, February 3, 2012
2011
Hollingsworth, Annie, Art Papers, Review, November/ December p.56-57
Aguirre, Abby. The Place, Florida, Part Five, New York Times Magazine, November 17, 2011
Art is About, Friday Night at Dorsch Gallery. Art is About. September 4, 2011
Critics Choice: Top 3, Time Out Chicago, July 28-August 3, 2011 p.2
Mason, Shana Beth, A Hybrid Trifecta, ArtLurker, September, 2011
Rabel, Eduardo Alexander, Three for the Course, ArtSlant Miami, September, 2011
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, Review: Dorsch Gallery Presents Winning Trifecta of Exhibits. Miami New Times.
September 8, 2011
Tischda, Anne, Three Strikes Your In at Dorsch, Knight Arts, September 6, 2011
2010
Jow, Tiffany. Thesis Report, Surface Magazine. December 2010, p.60
2009
Cochran, Jessica. “Rising Stars,” CS Interiors. Fall 2009, p.58
Max Otter, Douglas. “Strange Fruit”. Cleveland Scene. July 29th, 2009
La Ferla, Ruth. “Fashion Boutiques Are All Dressed Up Like Art Galleries.” New York Times. January 28, 2009 p.E1
