Cherrie Yu was born in Xi’an, China in 1995. She has been living and working in the US since 2013. 

Her films and performances have shown at Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Roman Susan Gallery, Gallery 400, Stove Works, Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Essex Flowers Gallery,  Wassaic Project, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Pageant Space, ICA Maine, the David Ireland House , Kala Art Institute , Contemporary Calgary Museum, Mint Museum, etc. 


She has been an artist in residence at Fine Arts Work Center, Anderson Center at Tower view, ACRE, Contemporary Calgary Museum, Monson Arts, Yaddo, McColl Center, and Sharpe Walentas Studio Program.  She was an awardee of the Kala Art Institute Media Award Fellowship in 2022, and a 2024 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow. She has been a visiting artist at Emory Universit’s anthropology department, and a visiting teaching  artist at the Visual Art department at UNC Charlotte. She will be an artist in residence at Macdowell in August 2025.