Cheri Smith

Cheri Smith is a painter whose layered, surreal worlds blend animals, humans, and nature. Her work channels strangeness and specificity, and has been shown in London, New York, and Beijing.
  • Alumni
  • Tutor
  • 2018
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Tutor, Drawing Year Alumni, 2018

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Biography

Cheri Smith’s painted world is alive with animals, humans, plants and the elements, and imbued with an atmosphere of particularity and strangeness. Cheri studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts in 2013, and went on to complete the Drawing Year in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally including with James Freeman Gallery (London), Fortnight Institute (New York) and Tabula Rasa (Beijing). Her debut solo show Swallowing Figments was held at Fortnight Institute in March 2024.

Artwork

It feeds the carpets

It feeds the carpets

Cheri Smith

The Itch

The Itch

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Fig 4

Fig 4

Cheri Smith

Self portrait with mouth open

Self portrait with mouth open

Cheri Smith

The Quick and the dead

The Quick and the dead

Cheri Smith