SET SAIL AGAIN exhibition artist | CHERRIE YU

Bolero Study is a reprise of Torvill and Dean’s ice dancing routine from the 1984 Olympic Sarajevo Olympics. Artist Cherrie Yu and collaborator Jade Manns rechoreographed the duet on their hands.

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, Wassaic Project in New York, 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 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, 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 University’s anthropology department, and a visiting teaching artist at the Visual Art department at UNC Charlotte.