Artist Bio

Cheri Tanamal (b.1999) is a Filipino-American artist based in Chicago. She likes to focus on intrapersonal relationships and culture.

As many of her friends and family are located far away, she explores how to communicate relationships that are separated by distance and time through memory. Memory is frozen in time, altered, and unreliable. Looking back at the past  and creating from pieces that still remain helps her find peace through storytelling. 

Although she practices in various mediums, she is drawn to cartoons whose comics present daily life in addition to Asian-American identity. Creating cartoons that include culture reaffirm her identity.

Shows:

SINAG: RAY OF LIGHT

FIArts Showcase 2024

Art a la Cache: Art in Nature, Romeoville Art Society Exhibition 2023

FIArts Showcase 2023

Undergrad Artist Gallery, Fifth Floor Gallery 

Art a la Cache: Art in Nature, Romeoville Art Society Exhibition 2022

FIArts Showcase 2022 

Blue Period International Art Exhibition 

Joliet Junior College Juried Students’ Exhibition 2021 

ICCJE (Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition) 2020

NIU Community College Student Juried Exhibition 2020