Cherry Rahn Sculptor and Painter



Cherry Rahn lives in Upstate New York. She received studio
art training at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She benefited
from various terms spent in London, Paris, Washington D.C.,
and at Lowell House, Harvard University. A background in dance
has also contributed to her work.

Organizations: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Rochester Contemporary; Ontario County
Arts Council.

Selected Exhibitions and Commissions:
2011"Abstractions"
Woman Made Gallery
Chicago, IL
2010"Being Here"
Paintings by Cherry Rahn
Finger Lakes Institute
Geneva, NY

"Post Decade"
Community School of Music and the Arts
Ithaca, NY

Set design for "Rabbit Hole"
Red Barn Theater
Keuka College
Keuka Park, NY

Musselman Arts Triathlon
Artistic Director for Painting
Smith Opera House
Geneva, NY

Rochester Contemporary Members' Show
Rochester, NY

2009April-June
Bank on Art
Canandaigua National Bank
Geneva, NY

July 17
Musselman Arts Triathlon
Artistic Director for Painting
Smith Opera House
Geneva, NY

October-December
Exhibition at Billsboro Winery
Geneva, NY

October
Set design for "Kimberly Akimbo" by David Lidsay-Abaire
Red Barn Theater, Keuka College
Keuka Park, NY

December
Rochester Contemporary Members' Show
Rochester, NY

2008"Annual Member's Show"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

"Color Streams 2008"
Community School of Music and Arts
Ithaca, NY

"Suits"
Bank on Art
Geneva Arts Development Council
Geneva, NY

2006"Object-ivity"
Rochester Contemporary
Rochester, NY

"Suits"
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY

"9th International Open"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

"Art in the Heart of the City"
Ithaca, NY

"Annual Members' Show"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

2005"Art in the Heart of the City"
Ithaca, New York

"Appendix"
Rochester Contemporary
Rochester NY
(Honorable Mention)

2004"Admiral"
private commission, Annapolis, MD
2003"Businessman in Touch with Nature"
commission, Ithaca, New York
2002"Art in the Heart of the City"
Ithaca, New York
2001"Transtec"
Charybdis Gallery, Chicago

"Amelia Bloomer"
commission
F.J. Ludovico Sculpture Trail, Seneca Falls, New York

Set pieces, costume decoration, poster
"Wind Dancers Circus"
Forms in Motion, Chicago

2000"Matilda Joslyn Gage"
Gage Foundation, Fayetteville, New york

"Members Show"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

1999"Rochester - Finger Lakes Exhibition"
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
1998"Signs and Symbols"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

"Members Show"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

"Relics and Remembrance"
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI

1997Invited Slide Presentation
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

"Boxes, Books and Alters"
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

"Ancient Fragments in a New Light"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

"Tools of the Trade: Anti-tech at the End of the 20th Century"
Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, New York

"Members Show"
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

1996"Small Objects"
Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA

"Cherry Rahn: Transtec"
Lightner Gallery, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York

1995commissions, four portraits in bronze, including
"Masters of Lowell House"
Cambridge, MA

"Work in Progress: Preliminary Findings"
Arts First Lowell House Exhibition
Harvard University

1993"Excerpt from the Sea of Souls"
Installation
Appleseed Collection, storefront location, Geneva, New york
1992Arnot Art Museum Regional Exhibition
Elmira, New York

Rochester - Finger Lakes Exhibition
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York

1989"Cherry Rahn: Sculpture"
Houghton House Gallery, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York


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