CHERY HOLMES

CHERY HOLMES

Chery Holmes is a Montreal-based artist with a passion for creating collage and mixed media works connected to the intricate world of the theatre. She attended the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and studied as well with the distinguished Canadian artist, Marion Wagschal, and the American portrait artist, Daniel E. Greene. She began her career as a founding member of Powerhouse Gallery, the first feminist art gallery in Canada, she has curated several artists’ exhibitions and has displayed her mixed media artwork in group shows and solo exhibitions across North America. Her Coca-Cola series drew strong media attention when the artist made use of painted and adorned three-dimensional figures sipping soda to poke holes in the shady business of mass marketing. Chery was chosen twice to participate in Les Femmeuses, sponsored by Pratt & Whitney, Canada. Her set of paintings which depict marginalized people were chosen as cover art for eight novels, published by Oberon Press. She is a two-time winner of the Hallmark Canada Greeting Card Competition and her interpretive portrait of the playwright, Tennessee Williams, has graced the cover of the Boston published, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. Her collage interpretation of Sherlock Holmes has been used as the cover art for The Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #28.

Chery has won a Special Merit Award from the LightSpaceTime Gallery in the 555 Special Art Exhibition 2018 for her mixed media collage, “The Costume Designer” and in 2021, a Special Recognition award for "The Prop Master".  She has also received ‘honorable mention’ in the 2018 Art Room Contemporary Gallery Competition titled, “City” for her mixed media work, “NYC Coffee Shop.” Also, in 2024, "Beckett" received an honorable mention award for the Teravarna Internationsl Juried Art Competition. Her artwork can be seen in the Canada Council Art Bank collection, the Musee d’Art Contemporain body of purchased works and internationally in both private and corporate collections. 

Chery teaches Master classes in contemporary collage techniques and offers workshops in the art and practice of creating multifaceted works using mixed media and collage.  

chery@ca.inter.net