EDUCATION
2015 MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, (CIIS) San Francisco, CA
2002 Certificate, Ceramics & Sculpture, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
1989 MRP, Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY
1987 BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, Urban Affairs, NYC, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (*Virtual)
2022 *Not Grandma’s Glass: June,” Habatat Detroit Fine Art, Royal Oak, MI
2021 *Cash Crops” re.riddle, San Francisco, CA
2016 Ghosts/Ships, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Fragile Vessels, (with Nate Lewis) Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola Univ., Baltimore, MD
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2020 Public Art Video Show, Multiple Locations, San Francisco, CA (as part of Collective Genus)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2022 HeartsOfGlass.net Pulse: Ein international Kunstprojekt, KV67, Galleries des Kunstvereins Schorndorf, Germany
Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, Related Tactics at the Center for Craft, Asheville, NC Symbiocene, L'Eté des
Serpents, Arles, France
2020 The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Art is Essential, Vessel Gallery On-Line, Oakland, CA
Unbroken Legacies: Northern California Art Glass, The Museum of No. CA Art, Chico, CA
Migration, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA
SFMOMA Presents: Black Contemporary Artists, 2020, TPG, San Francisco, CA
2019 Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA
2018 Silence Out Loud: Contemporary African American Portraits, MONCA, Chico, CA Let Me Be A Witness, Root Division,
San Francisco, CA
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 Guest Lecturer, San Jose State University Art Galleries, San Jose, CA
2022 Workshop Presenter, The Studio at Corning
Guest Lecturer, 3.9 Art Collective, YBCA, San Francisco, CA
Guest Lecturer, Women Painters of Washington, Seattle, WA
2021 Guest Lecturer, In the Artist’s Studio, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Artist, What do you want to say? Koret Education Center, SFMOMA, CA
Guest Lecturer, Cheryl Derricotte & Ramekon O’Arwisters in Conversation, San Francisco Public Library, San
Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, POLI 381 Politics of Memory, undergrad senior seminar, Vassar College,
Visiting Artist, ART 6000-Readings in Contemporary Environmental Art, ECU, Greenville, NC
Visiting Artist, Art440/640 Forum, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA
2020 Panelist, Real Talk: Speaking to Soul of a Nation FOG Design + Art, San Francisco, CA
2020 Panelist, After Hope: Artists in Conversation Co-Sponsored by the Asian Art Museum, Museum of the African
Diaspora (both San Francisco, CA) & The Cantor Museum (Stanford, CA)
Co-Curator, Collective Genus in Conversation with Jeff Gunderson, San Francisco Public Library
Workshop Presenter, How to Get Grants, Residencies & Shows, MFA Program, California Institute of Integral Studies,
San Francisco, CA
HONORS & AWARDS
2022 Individual Artist Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
Finalist, Transbay Block 3 Park and Alley, San Francisco, CA
2021 Grant, Osceola Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2020 YBCA100 Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Individual Artist Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
Semi-Finalist, Maya Angelou Public Art, San Francisco Public Library
2018 Local Artist Honoree, Contemporary Vision Award Committee, SFMOMA
2017 Artist Fellowship, Hemera Foundation Tending Space Grant, Joshua Tree, CA
2017 Val & Rick Beck Glass Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, NC
2015 Emerging Artist, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYC, NY
Finalist, 19th Street BART Public Art, Oakland, CA
2015 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Visionary Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, NC
2014 Creative Capacity Fund Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles/San Francisco, CA
Best Documentary, CIIS Secret Spaces (with JK Parsons), Fast Film Festival, California Institute of Integral Studies
(CIIS), San Francisco, CA
2007 Scholarship, Pittsburgh Glass Center, PA
2005 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities/NEA
2004 Small Projects Grant, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities/NEA
Christy Wright Scholarship in Glass, Penland School of Crafts, NC
SELECT ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
2021 Inaugural BIPOC Residency, The Studio at the Corning Museum, Corning, NY
2021 Residency, Black[space] Residency, San Francisco, CA
2020 Windgate Craft Artist Fellowship/Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Residency, This Will Take Time, Oakland, CA
Micro-Residency, HATCH Series, Villa Albertine, French Consulate, San Francisco, CA
2019 Residency, Antenna Paper Machine, New Orleans, LA
COMMISSIONS
2021 Public Art Commission, Freedom’s Threshold, Harriet Tubman Memorial, free-standing, 12 ft glass and aluminum
sculptural tribute. Republic Urban Properties, Gateway at Millbrae Station.
2020 Public Art Commission, Along the Fence-Line, a billboard combining my photograph with text highlighting
environmental racism in the US. SaveArtSpace, Los Angeles, CA
Public Health Commission, Sound the Alarm, a culturally-appropriate facemask targeted to Black residents living in
Bayview. San Francisco Emergency Command Center, CA
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (*Reviews)
2023 Tony Bravo, “San Francisco Artists’ Space Floods in Storms with ‘losses they’ll never get back’” Datebook, San
Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 2023
2022 Between Amitabha and Tubman: Black Buddhist Thought, The Arrow: A Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture and
Politics, Vol 9, Issue 2, Fall 2022. Artwork by Star Barker, Cheryl Derricotte, and authors.
*Abigail Peterson, “New Museum Exhibit Celebrates Black Artist Collectives.” SONOMA Magazine, July/Aug 2022.
Lastgaspism, Anthony Romero, Daniel Tucker and Dan S. Wang, editors, Soberscove Press, Chicago, IL. March 2022
2021 *Tony Bravo, “San Francisco Artist Cheryl Derricotte Selected for Harriet Tubman Monument.” Datebook, San
Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 2021
*Jill Cowan, “A Pandemic Silver Lining for a San Francisco Institution.” California Today, New York Times,
February 19, 2021
COLLECTIONS
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Historic New Orleans Collection
National Association of Homebuilders, Washington, DC
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Public Library