Cheri Gaulke
Select Solo Exhibitions
2011-12 Cheri Gaulke-Peep Totter Fly, Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Select Film Festival Screenings
2014
University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon
aGLIFF: Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, Texas
Reeling 2014: 32nd Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
OUTrageous!, Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA
Select Group Exhibitions from 2011-2015
2015 WonderWomen, curated by Frenchy Lunning, Howard Oransky and Susan Smoluchowski, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Under the Wings of Artemis: Scholars, Artists and the Places Between, curated by Lauren Dudley and Sandra Kroupa, Special Collections at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
2013 Tapping the Third Realm, curated by Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood, curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, curated by Meg Linton and Sue Maberry, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Select Fellowships, Awards, and Commissions
2013 Art is a Hammer Award, from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Celebrating the Art of Resistance, Los Angeles, CA
Oct 20, 2013 Commendation, County of Los Angeles, Art is a Hammer Award Honoree
2010 Design of Courtyard and Labyrinth, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena, California
2009 Public Art Commission, design for Veterans Memorial, West Covina, California (never built)
2007 Public Art Commission, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena, California
2006 Public Art Commission, ArtCans 2006, Silver Lake Beautification Committee
2005 Public Art Commission, design for permanent street medallions for Silver Lake, California
2005 Public Art Commission, Filipino World War II Veterans Memorial, Los Angeles, California
2004 Public Art Commission, Pillars of Community, City of Lakewood, California
COLA Artist’s Fellowship, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department
2004 COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Los Angeles, CA
Select Community-based Artwork
2014-15 Digital Media Artist-in-Residence, A Window Between Worlds, Los Angeles, CA
2013-present Project Director/Film Mentor, Digital Storytelling Adventures (for teens) Laos, Rwanda, Cuba, Cambodia
2011-present Artistic Director, The Righteous Conversations Project, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND COMMISSIONS
2013
Art is a Hammer Award, From the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Celebrating the Art of Resistance,
Professional Musicians Union, Local 47, Hollywood, California,
Oct 20, 2013
Commendation, County of Los Angeles, Art is a Hammer Award Honoree
2010
Design of Courtyard and Labyrinth, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena, California
2009
Public Art Commission, design for Veterans Memorial, West Covina, California (never built)
2007
Public Art Commission, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Pasadena, California
2006
Public Art Commission, ArtCans 2006, Silver Lake Beautification Committee
2005
Public Art Commission, design for permanent street medallions for Silver Lake, California
Public Art Commission, Filipino World War II Veterans Memorial, Los Angeles, California
2004
Public Art Commission, Pillars of Community, City of Lakewood, California
COLA Artist’s Fellowship, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department
Education
M.A. (Feminist Art/Education), 1978
Goddard College, Los Angeles, CA
Instant Theatre (Rachel Rosenthal’s theatre company), 1976-77
Los Angeles, California
Feminist Studio Workshop, 1975-77
The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
B.F.A. (Intermedia), 1975
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN