Cherrie Yu is an artist born in Xi’an, China and lives in the United States. She works in choreography, moving images, writing and installation. Her practice explores the transmission of embodied knowledge, the critical functions of the archival form, and the artist as amateur. She received a BA in English from the College of William and Mary in 2017, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2019. She has produced dance films, lecture performances, and documentaries in the past few years, and she continues to form collaborative relationships with artists and non-artists alike. Recently she is thinking about questions such as moving images as a storage for collective memory, and the function of avant-garde art in relation to colonial dispossession. Besides being an artist, she is also a practitioner of table tennis.

She has been an artist in residence at McColl Center, Yaddo, Anderson Center, Kala Art Institute, and Sharpe Walentas Program. Her works have been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Maine, the Mint Museum in North Carolina, the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and the Center for Performance Research and Pageant Space in New York.