Ethan Cherry is a studio artist who specializes in painting and drawing.
He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018,
and is currently pursuing an MFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder.​
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(b. 1996)
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email: ethancherry@me.com
instagram: ethernet1000
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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One Day at The Fourth Floor Corridor; Boulder, CO - 10/2024
Twelve word-based works on paper made in egg tempera, india ink, and watercolor.
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Selected Works on Paper at Goldstein Gallery; Boulder, CO - 11/2023
Selected recent watercolors and ink drawings.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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Time and Attention at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Jeanne Quinn and Julie Poitras Santos​
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King Award Exhibition at The Visual Arts Complex; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Kealey Boyd and Stacey Steers
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Archive Fever Dream at Space Space; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe
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Aspects of Touch at East Window; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Marina Kassianidou
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Co-Op Group Show at 905 W Eastman; Chicago, IL - 4/2021
Selected recent watercolors and a woodblock print in a group show with four other featured artists of a local environmental co-op
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Monthly Featured Artist Exhibition at Y.N.K. Gallery; Naperville, IL - 2/2019
Selected recent works in oil paint and watercolor in a group show with two other featured artists
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Happy Mother's Day at Waterman Gallery; Providence, RI - 5/2018
Several oil paintings from Faerie Magyk series in a group show with Emma Soucek, Maddy Parrasch, Max Hertz, and Yunyao Gu
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Faerie Magyk at Memorial Hall; Providence, RI - 5/2018
Several oil paintings from Faerie Magyk series in a group show with Emma Soucek, Maddy Parrasch, Kalina Winters, and Zoo Somaini
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You're Invited! at Gelman Gallery, RISD Musuem; Providence, RI - 5-6/2018
Three small watercolors in a group show curated by Mary Kwan, Madison Billings and Mehdie Whittington
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RISD Painting, Senior Exhibition at Woods Gerry; Providence, RI - 4/2018
Several small watercolors, one oil painting, and two sculptures in the RISD Painting senior exhibitions
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EHP Winter Exhibition at Piazza Cenci; Roma, Italy - 12/2017
Ten small watercolors installed in the Beatrice Room of Piazza Cenci in Rome, Italy for a small group show curated by Jeffrey Egner and Maddy Parrasch
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RISD + Castelvecchio at Castelvecchio Calvisio; L'Aquila, Italy - 9/2017
Two drawings installed in the piazza of a small mountain town in Northern Italy for an exhibition of the European Honors Program (EHP)
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re|ACT at Brown University's Granoff Center; Providence, RI - 3/2017
Two large oil paintings in the student portion of a month-long interdisciplinary symposium on arts and environmental issues
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RISD Painting, Junior Exhibition at Memorial Hall; Providence, RI — 1/2017
One large oil painting in an exhibition of RISD students curated by the RISD Painting Department faculty
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Pettie Zoo at Exposé; Providence, RI - 11/2016
Several collages and three sculptures in a group show called "Pettie Zoo" curated by Tess Wagman and Jian Yu
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RISD Painting, Sophomore Exhibition at Woods Gerry; Providence, RI — 8/2016
One large oil painting in an exhibition of RISD students curated by the RISD Painting Department faculty
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Open House at Trade Pop-Up; Providence, RI — 5/2016
One large oil painting in a small group show called "Open House" curated by Stavely Kuzmanov and Molly O'Naire
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RESIDENCIES
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Weeping Willow Farm - 2025, 2024, 2022
Taos, New Mexico
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Neem Karoli Baba Ashram - 2023, 2022, 2018, 2016
Taos, New Mexico
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Koyama Provides: Sponsored Mentorship - 2021
Remote
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Green Trails Fellowship with India Hikes - 2019
Uttarakhand, India
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RISD in Rome: European Honors Program - 2017
Rome, Italy
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PUBLICATIONS
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Ethanopolis Urban Planning Compendium - 4/2025
(self-published artist book)
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Dazy Walk - 04/2023
(self-published graphic novella)
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India Hikes Fellowship Spotlight (online article) - 8/2019
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The European Honors Program at RISD (program catalogue) - 11/2017
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Crush (magazine) - 5/2016
One poem published in Crush, a feminist magazine curated by Tess Wagman
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College Hill Independent (newspaper) - 4/2016
A Two-page color comic published in the full-page center spread of Brown University newspaper's retrospective issue
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Where I Sit - 1/2015
(self-published zine)
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