Caitlin Cherry

Caitlin Cherry is a New York-based American painter known for her richly layered figurative works that explore themes of race, gender, representation, and desire through a lens informed by digital culture, fashion, and advertising imagery. Her large-scale paintings often depict Black femme figures rendered in bold, luminous colors, drawing on the aesthetics of fantasy, gaming, and mass media to interrogate how Black women are seen and commodified. Cherry has exhibited widely and is recognized as an important voice in contemporary figurative painting.