Ethan Cherry is a visual artist who specializes in painting and drawing.
He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018,
and his MFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2026.
(b. 1996)
instagram: ethernet1000
email: ethancherry@me.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Here to Serve at CU Art Museum; Boulder, CO - 4/2026
MFA Thesis Exhibition
One Day at CU Visual Arts Complex; Boulder, CO - 10/2024
Twelve word-based works on paper made in egg tempera, india ink, and watercolor.
Selected Works on Paper at CU Goldstein Gallery; Boulder, CO - 11/2023
Selected recent watercolors and ink drawings.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Time and Attention at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Jeanne Quinn and Julie Poitras Santos
King Award Exhibition at CU Visual Arts Complex; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Kealey Boyd and Stacey Steers
Archive Fever Dream at Space Space; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe
Aspects of Touch at East Window; Boulder, CO - 4/2025
Curated by Marina Kassianidou
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
RESIDENCIES
Hazel Barnes Flat - 2026
London, United Kingdom
Weeping Willow Farm - 2025, 2024, 2022
Taos, New Mexico
Neem Karoli Baba Ashram - 2023, 2022, 2018, 2016
Taos, New Mexico
Koyama Provides: Sponsored Mentorship - 2021
Remote
Green Trails Fellowship with India Hikes - 2019
Uttarakhand, India
RISD in Rome: European Honors Program - 2017
Rome, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Ethanopolis Urban Planning Compendium - 4/2025
(self-published artist book)
Dazy Walk - 04/2023
(self-published graphic novella)
Where I Sit - 1/2015
(self-published zine)
PRESS
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
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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