Biography
Nalini ‘Deedee’ Cheriel is a visual artist who started out creating record covers and T-shirts in the early ‘90s music scene. Born in the hippie town of Eugene, Oregon, she started a record label at the age of 19. Influenced by the popular DIY culture of that time, she played in several all-girl bands (Juned, Adickdid, The Teenangels, The Hindi Guns) and co-created the semi-autobiographical movie, Down and Out with the Dolls. The artist has lived and studied abroad: Honduras, Chile, England, Portugal, Spain and her native India. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA.
Now residing in Los Angeles, Cheriel’s work explores roles of race, gender, class, environment and power in tales that channel the visual lexicons of girl rock bands, ancient and modern pop culture, East Indian temple imagery, revolutionary movements, and her Pacific Northwest natural environment through narratives.
Her images are indications of how we try to connect ourselves to others and how these satirical and heroic efforts are episodes of compassion and discomfort. Bold elements drawn from landscapes -both urban and natural- and pop culture suggest the ability to find commonalities and relationships between ourselves and our surroundings that inevitably confirm our greater humanity and quest towards love.
Exhibition Record
*solo shows marked by asterisk
2024
Into Action: (Chicago IL) August 2024
Slice of Summer (Los Angeles CA) August 2024
Moon & Stars: Loa Angeles Asian American Women in Art/ BG Gallery (Los Angeles) May 2024
Artshare: LA Legacy / LA ART SHARE (Los Angeles, CA) April 2024
2023
Artists For ERA / Virginia Museum of History and Culture (Richmond,Virginia) February, 2023
California Dreamin / Dorado 806 Projects (Los Angeles, CA) February, 2023
2022
Modern Folk/ Stephanie Chefas Gallery (Portland, OR) January, 2022
Cat Art Show/ China Town Arts (Los Angeles CA) October, 2022
Art For Peace in Ukraine with Yoko Ono and Cindy Sherman (Venice, CA) April, 2022
25 Year Anniversary Show/ KP Projects (Los Angeles, CA) August, 2022
Neutra / Neutra Museum (Los Angeles, CA) October, 2022
2021
Chauvet Arts (Nashville, TN) August 2021
Nature Diaries (New York, NY) 2021
2020
Witch Women (Venice, CA) February 2020
Dialect to the Eye Andenken/ Holdout Gallery (Portual) September 2020
Curves at Battalion Gallery (Portugal)
Geese Are Never Swans by Eva Clark, illustration for book published by Kobe Bryant
2019
Chroma KP Projects (Los Angeles CA) 2019
2018
*Cosmic Connections World Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2018
We Rise LA (Los Angeles) October 2018
2017
TWENTY-ONE / Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) June 2017
*When Brown Chicks Take Over the World Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2017
Women of the New Contemporary / Artst Republic May 2017
2016
Deedee Cheriel and Umar Rashid -Frowhawk - Campfire Gallery (SanFrancisco) 2016
*Deedee Cheriel Pure Evil Gallery (London UK) July 2016
Monniker Art Fair London 2018
BLOOM Art Fair/ Battalion Cologne Germany 2016
Art Market Artist Republic (Santa Monica) 2016
2015
*Natural Resource Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2015
Platinum Blend (San Francisco) Modern Eden Project 2015
The Provocateurs Art Alliance (Chicago IL) 2015
2014
*More Than Another Shiny Object Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2014
Spaces // Squared (San Francisco) White Walls Gallery May 2014
Wider Than a Postcard (Portland, Or) Breeze Block Gallery 2014
Affordable Art Fair (London, UK) Coates and Scarry 2014
2013
*Episodes in the Abundant Oasis Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2013
McCaig Welles Gallery (New York) June 2013
Monniker Art Fair (London) October 2013
*Little Spirit and Infinite Longing, Pure Evil Gallery (London, UK) March 2010
2012
*AIko, Tara McPherson & Deedee Cheriel: Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) February 2012
*Just Passing Through (Amsterdam, ND) September 2012
Busy Being (Austin, TX) March 2012
University Of Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI) February 2012
Street Art Show LA ARTS (Los Angeles) April 2012
Unnatural History (Bristol UK) July 2012
Unnatural History (Melbourne, AU) April 2012
2011
Modern Fabulist View Gallery (Bristol, UK) April 2011
FemkeHiemstra, Audrey Kawasaki & Deedee Cheriel: Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) July 2011
2010
*Abracadabra Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) October 2010
Art Basel Art Fair McCaig Welles Gallery (Miami) December 2010
SUBject/ SubJECT Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) May 2010
Amsterdam Art Fair: Mauger Modern (London) March 2010
2009
True Self: Jonathan Levine Gallery (New York) October 2009
Beyond Eden: Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) September 2009
Lovable Like Orphaned Kitties and Bastard Children: Green Gallery (Milwaukee, WI) May 2009
Together We Are: Barracuda (Los Angeles) July 2009
Sunset Junction: LA ART (Los Angeles) August 2009
Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children: Green Gallery (Milwaukee,WI)
Print Heavy: NOMAD Gallery (Los Angeles)
Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children: LACE Gallery (Los Angeles)
Harmonious Glory: Mei Xue Gallery (Los Angeles/ Beijing)
2008
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet: Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles) May 2008
TBD White Walls Gallery(San Francisco) December 2008
Cologne Art Fair: McCaig-Welles Gallery October 2008
Look!: Jail Gallery (Los Angeles) August 2008
*Deedee Cheriel Recent Works : Stitch Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) December 2008
New Works: Welles-Rosenthal Gallery (Redwood City) June 2008
2007
Bridge Art Fair: Art Basel (Miami)
*Into the Stars and Always Up: McCaig Welles Gallery (Brooklyn)
Tiger in a Tropical Storm: Riviera Gallery (Brooklyn)
Tall Totem Pole: Gallery 1269 (Los Angeles)
Fountain Art Fair: McCaig Welles Gallery (New York)
Bridge Art Fair: Mc Caig Welles (Chicago)
The Girls Room: Jen Bekman Gallery (New York)
Jail Weddings: Jail Gallery (Los Angeles)
2005-2006
Pop, Bang, Slide: Autopsy Gallery (Melbourne, Australia)
5ives: Receiver Gallery (San Francisco)
Market Show: Stall 54 (London)
Free words: Free Biennial (New York)
The Group Show: David Allen Gallery (New York)
* 2 Artists: FLUXCO Gallery (Los Angeles)
Sunset and St. Marks: Capla-Kesting Fine Art (New York)
Sunset and St. Marks: Capla-Kesting Fine Art (Los Angeles)
Bridge Art Fair: Art Basel (Miami)
1st and Hope: Brian Lotti Space (Los Angeles)
2000-2004
Street / School Girls: New Image Art Gallery (Los Angeles)
Hollywood Bowl: Track 16 Gallery (Los Angeles – with Kenny Scharf and Ed Moses)
* ArtPolitix: ArtSpace (Los Angeles)
Street notes: Blue Box (London, UK)
Salon Du Petit: Gallery 825 (Los Angeles)
Small Creatures: Dirt Gallery (Los Angeles)
*Ms. Understood: Planet 24 Gallery (Portland, Or)
Publications
Acting with Energy Cover for Book 2024
Book of Disbelieving by David Lawrence Morse 11 /2022
Mother Wild Illustration 5/2022.
North American Review Feature 7/2022.
Travel and Design Magazine 3/2022
Stuttgarter Zeitung 2/11/2022
Geese are Never Swans by Eva Clark (Published by Kobe Bryants Granity Books) illustration, 2021
Chattahoochee Review, cover, feature, spring 2020
Spirituality and Health July 2019 12 pages, interview
Jet Fuel Magazine Cover/ Feature 2021
Juxtapoz WILD, 2016
Indiana Review, Volume 37/Number 2, 2016 (cover art)
"Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent" Poems by David Wojciechowski, 2017 (cover art)
Epoch, Volume 65/Number 3, 2016 (cover art)
LA WEEKLY 9/2019
Zinc: Arts, Lettres et Culture, 2016 (cover art)
The Independant UK Feature 2016
BL!SSS Magazine #39, 2010
Kult, Issue #9 "Earth"
BlackBook Magazine, 2015
Outside the Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Creative Masterminds, 2015
Queremos! "5 Anos de Shows em 67 Posters, 2015
Taschen, Illustration Now! 5, 2015
"For Another Writing Back" by Elaine Bleakney, 2014 (cover art)
TV/ FILM
Casper Mattresses Bedroom 2024
BARRY - Living Room Set - 2023
CHEETOS- SUPERBOWL commercial with Ashton Kushner/ Mila Kunis -Living Room and Bathroom Set 2/2022
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty- Ben Stiller 2013
Greys Anatomy- Bedroom, Living Room sets 2014