Bio / CV
Cherisse Alcantara (b. Philippines) is a painter whose paintings and works on paper explore her relationship and connection to place, home and the everyday through the transitional spaces within reimagined architectures, landscapes and objects. Utilizing color and space, detailed observation and areas of abstraction, her art is rooted in a desire to see something beyond the ordinary within the familiar.
Alcantara received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2021) and her B.A. Art Practice from the University of California-Berkeley (2013). She has exhibited both regionally and nationally, including at Vessel Gallery (Oakland, CA), the Berkeley Art Center, Worth Ryder Gallery (Berkeley, CA), Arc Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Pence Gallery (Davis, CA), the Piedmont Center for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum. She is the recipient of the Sussman Prize in Painting from UC Berkeley and the Jentel Artist Residency. Her most recent awards include the PAFA Fine Arts Venture Fund 2021, The Hopper Prize 2021 finalist, and the Murray Dessner Memorial Travel Award upon her MFA graduation.
She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Alcantara received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2021) and her B.A. Art Practice from the University of California-Berkeley (2013). She has exhibited both regionally and nationally, including at Vessel Gallery (Oakland, CA), the Berkeley Art Center, Worth Ryder Gallery (Berkeley, CA), Arc Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Pence Gallery (Davis, CA), the Piedmont Center for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum. She is the recipient of the Sussman Prize in Painting from UC Berkeley and the Jentel Artist Residency. Her most recent awards include the PAFA Fine Arts Venture Fund 2021, The Hopper Prize 2021 finalist, and the Murray Dessner Memorial Travel Award upon her MFA graduation.
She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
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