Cherrie Yu was born in Xi’an, China in 1995. She relocated to the US in 2013.  

Her films and performances have shown at Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Roman Susan Gallery and Arts Club of Chicago, Trestle Gallery,  Wassaic Project in New York, and Chengdu Times Museum in China, the David Ireland House in SF, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA, Contemporary Calgary Museum in Calgary Canada, 


She has been an artist in residence at ACRE Residency, Contemporary Calgary Museum, Monson Arts, Yaddo, and McColl Center.  She was an awardee of the Kala Art Institute Media Award Fellowship in 2022.  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 is currently a resident of the Sharpe Walentas Studio program in Dumbo, Brooklyn.