Cherry Nin is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video with a practice that includes performance, writing, and sound.

Often employing cut up techniques, green screen effects, playful editing, and spiraling interwoven dialogue, Nin’s work points to reality as being unreliable—at times agreed upon, though more often forced onto one group by another. Situating humor and absurdity up against the mundanity of the everyday, there is a sense throughout Nin’s work that something fantastic, darker, and convoluted lies just below the surface. Utilizing what she has available—friends as actors, bedroom as set, Nin draws a circle around her world then zooms out to reveal a teetering, a holding together of something that threatens to fall apart. Alternative realities begin to break through, propelled into existence by artist and audience together.

Alongside her art practice, Cherry is an organizer. She is the founder of Krissy Talking Pictures, a video art label that makes space for queer artists without access to institutions.

Cherry is a 2020 recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change Grant, and a past artist in residence at Outpost Artist Resources in Queens, NY.