BIO
Lives and works in San Francisco
EDUCATION
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Contested (1BR) Space, Dan and Cheryl, ATA Window Gallery, San Francisco
2013 OCCUPY
THE DREAM HOUSE, “Silicon
Valley Dream House,” Menlo Park, CA
2012 Occupy Docents Occupy the Dream House, enacted at Occupy Bay Area at
2011 CAPITALISM IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT, Right Window, San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2010 More Depleted, Gallery 1055, Diocesan House, San Francisco
2008 Depleted Selves, Mission 17, San Francisco
2000 Taking Stock, m&ms and sustenance in the hyper economy, Refusalon,
San Francisco
1996 Urban Provincial, Gallery 16, San Francisco
1995 New work, Refusalon, San Francisco
1995 Recent small paintings, Triton Hotel Mezzanine Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Recent oil paintings and mixed media sculpture, Refusalon, San Francisco
GROUP EXHBITIONS
2021 California Girls 2, Gallery: Online, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 Society of Independent Artists Works On Paper, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco
2014 Magic Car Pit, by Dan and Cheryl, 100 Performances for The Hole, SOMARTS,
San Francisco
2014 Magic Car Pit, by Dan and Cheryl, 100 Performances for The Hole, SOMARTS,
San Francisco
2011 Profound Ambivalence, by Dan and Cheryl, Third Strike: 100 Performances
for the Hole, SOMARTS, San Francisco
2011 Occupy the Streets of San Francisco, by Dan and Cheryl, Micromanagement,
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
2011 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It, The Waffle Shop billboard, Pittsburgh
2010 Shadowshop, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (a project of Stephanie Syjuco)
2010 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It - at the Luggage Store gallery, San Francisco
2010 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It, San Francisco
2010 A Space Odyssey, annual auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2009 All Good Things, Mission 17, San Francisco
2008 Politique Poetique, Gallery Theater, Skyline College, San Bruno
2008 These Are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, Gallery 16 15th
Anniversary Group Show, San Francisco
2005 Past Lives and Personal Exorcisms, Blackbird Space, San Franciscoo
2005 Bay Area Now 4, Stretcher, "The Green Room" Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco
2004 The Way We Work, Southern Exposure Gallery, Stretcher, "The Green Room"
2004 A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2004 Smorgasboard, Mighty, San Francisco
2003 MARK: Contemporary Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2003 18th Annual Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2002 Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16 prints, multiples, Gallery 16, San
Francisco
2002 highlight, Goldstrom Maybeck House, CultureLounge & refusalon, Oakland
for the Hole, SOMARTS, San Francisco
2011 Occupy the Streets of San Francisco, by Dan and Cheryl, Micromanagement,
Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
2011 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It, The Waffle Shop billboard, Pittsburgh
2010 Shadowshop, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (a project of Stephanie Syjuco)
2010 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It - at the Luggage Store gallery, San Francisco
2010 Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It, San Francisco
2010 A Space Odyssey, annual auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2009 All Good Things, Mission 17, San Francisco
2008 Politique Poetique, Gallery Theater, Skyline College, San Bruno
2008 These Are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, Gallery 16 15th
Anniversary Group Show, San Francisco
2005 Past Lives and Personal Exorcisms, Blackbird Space, San Franciscoo
2005 Bay Area Now 4, Stretcher, "The Green Room" Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco
2004 The Way We Work, Southern Exposure Gallery, Stretcher, "The Green Room"
2004 A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2004 Smorgasboard, Mighty, San Francisco
2003 MARK: Contemporary Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2003 18th Annual Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2002 Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16 prints, multiples, Gallery 16, San
Francisco
2002 highlight, Goldstrom Maybeck House, CultureLounge & refusalon, Oakland
2000 FREE 1 hour personal shopping assistance, L7 intervention, San Francisco
2000 Light and Video Show, Refusalon, San Francisco
1999 Work from San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Los Angeles, Refusalon, San Francisco
1999 What is Art for? Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1998 Four Walls, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas
1997 Gallery 16, Iris prints and mixed media, group limited box sets, San Francisco
1997 ICA Monotype Marathon, Collaboration with Robert Ortbal, San Jose, CA
1997 Made in San Francisco, Coin, London, UK
1997 Whatever, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1996 Nothing Matters, Refusalon, San Francisco
1995 Art: the Great American Pastime, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Studio Visit, Edition One Books, Linda Geary
2013 Occupy the Dreamhouse Press Conference/Art Intervention/Institutional Critique, CBS
News Channel 5 News Television News segment, Menlo Park, CA
2013 Fair Housing Advocates Argue Against Gambling on Dream Houses, Rutherford
Grindle, Jan 10th, 2013, IndyBay
2013 Art Practical Event Pick, Occupy the Dream House Press Conference/Action/Art
Intervention, Art Practical
2012 Black Blob, Pictures of the day Telegraph UK
2012 The Black Blob, Occupy Wallstreet West. YouTube moosedog00
2012 Amorphous Black Blob Occupies Wall Street West, Occupy Everything,
San Francisco Financial District
2011 Shop Talk 3 Respondent, Helena Keefe, OpenSpace, SFMOMA
2011 1001 Chairs for Ai WeiWei, KQED Arts, Christian Frock
2010 Cover image, These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16 Books
2010 Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2010
2010 Joseph del Pesco interviews David Lawrence and Cheryl Meeker about
Stretcher
2010 Featured Gallery event on SF Arts.org by Christian L. Frock
2010 Artist’s Response, Portraits and Self-Portraits, by Terri Cohn, Blurb
2008 The Eyes Have It, Traci Vogel, SF Weekly
2006 Anti/Social at Mission 17, Sarah Lockhart, Shotgun Review
2006 Alan W. Moore’s blog review of Considering Curatorial Objectivity, NYFA Current
2004 Double Exposure, Adrienne Gagnon, SF Weekly
2004 The Way We Work, Clark Buckner, SF Bay Guardian
2004 Diamonds and rust, Glen Helfand, San Francisco Bay Guardian
2003 Artweek, Laura Richard Janku, Four Painters, Four Friends
2000 Artists who Transcend Pop, David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner
2000 Critic’s Choice: Didi Dunphy and Cheryl Meeker, Glen Helfand, SFBG
1998 Scope, Gregory Crosby, Four Walls at CAC
1997 The Bay Area Reporter, Stephen Jenkins, Whatever at Southern Exposure
1996 Art Papers, Donna Schumacher, Charles Linder and Cheryl Meeker at Gallery
16
1996 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Harry Roche, Urban Provincial
1996 Artweek, Terri Cohn, Cheryl Meeker at Refusalon
1996 SF Weekly, Melts in your Mind
1996 Bay Times, Artemisia Reiter, Formal Foods at Refusalon and Belcher Studios
1995 SF Weekly, Johnny Ray Huston, Art: The Great American Pastime
COLLABORATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2012 Black Blob Occupies Wall Street West, San Francisco Financial District
2011 I Choose for You: Meg Chooses for Cheryl (Part 3), SFMoMa Open Space
2011 member, Right Window, San Francisco
2010 Capitalism Is Over If You Want It, The Summer of Tough Love, curator, team
member, artist, San Francisco
2008 Contributor, Skank Bloc Bologna number 1, TART, San Francisco
2007 Contibutor, Good Times: Bad Trips, by Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker,
Gallery 16 Editions
2000 Founding member and co-publisher of Stretcher, a San Francisco based visual
art and culture website @ www.stretcher.org
2003 Collaboration with Dan Spencer for Stretcher,"Dan and Cheryl at Home…"
2006 Participated in project by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, corporate board
member for a life as corporation project “Death & Taxes.”
1998 CALF, Coalition of Artists and Life Forms
WRITING AND ONLINE PROJECTS
2012 Keyword: Horizontal, Occupy as Form, ARC Muses blog, UC Berkeley
2011 Frame Capitalism, Not the Earth Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It
2011 I Choose for You: Meg Chooses for Cheryl (Part 3), SFMOMA OPEN SPACE
2010 Will Sit/Lie Stand? Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It
2008-11 Depleted Selves, an online interactive website, with Neil Mackintosh and David
Lawrence, web and technical, http://www.depletedselves.com/
2006 Considering death and thinking about taxes, Third Quarterly Report of Death
& Taxes, a project by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert,
2006 Considering Curatorial Objectivity, NYFA Current
2005 Green Room Now, Documentation of Stretcher events at Bay Area Now,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003 Designing Flesh and Machine, on the work of Robert Ortbal, Marjoriewood
2002 The Ambiguous World of Wayne Smith, review of Aero-Mic'd, by Wayne Smith,
Stretcher.org
2001 High Concept Hand Work, Stretcher.org, Jack Hanley Gallery, Pond, AOV
2001 The Loft Project, in collaboration with the Stretcher editors, Stretcher
2000 Drive By: Snapshots from the Cultural Landscape, Art Papers, Traywick Gallery
1997 Beer Drinking Sonata is the Highest Form of Art, Art Papers, February 1996
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2015 Time and Place, panel discussion, Art Department, California State University
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
2011 Shop Talk: Part Three, OPENSPACE event, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2011 member, Right Window, San Francisco
2010 curatorial, Capitalism Is Over If You Want It, The Summer of Tough Love, San
Francisco
2009 The Orchard Projects, Residency, Ventura, CA
2009 SFAI Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, jury member for exhibitions
program
2008 KPFA radio interview, Morning Show host Aimee Allison interviews Cheryl
Meeker (from 1:38:30 through 1:45:00) http://kpfa.org/archive/id/46126
2008 CCA Extension, Bay Area Art on Location; taught a class exploring emerging art
venues by neighborhood
2007 JFK University, Berkeley, CA, MFA class critique for Mary Webster
2006 Anti/Social, Mission 17’s 3rd Annual juried exhibition, jury member with Clark
Buckner, Michael Zheng, and Elaine Santos
2006 Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, artist lecture for “Art/Theory/Praxis”
2005 UCB Extension, San Francisco, CA, two classes in collaboration with Dan
Spencer for Stretcher taught “Art in the Bay Area”
2004 SFAI, San Francisco, CA, visiting artist discussion of collaborative art groups
for Stretcher for Amy Ellingson
2001 CCA, San Francisco, CA, MFA Independent Study instructor
2000 CCA, San Francisco, CA, visiting artist for Sono Osato
2000 Light and Video Show, Refusalon, San Francisco
1999 Work from San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Los Angeles, Refusalon, San Francisco
1999 What is Art for? Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1998 Four Walls, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas
1997 Gallery 16, Iris prints and mixed media, group limited box sets, San Francisco
1997 ICA Monotype Marathon, Collaboration with Robert Ortbal, San Jose, CA
1997 Made in San Francisco, Coin, London, UK
1997 Whatever, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1996 Nothing Matters, Refusalon, San Francisco
1995 Art: the Great American Pastime, George Krevsky Fine Art, San Francisco
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Studio Visit, Edition One Books, Linda Geary
2013 Occupy the Dreamhouse Press Conference/Art Intervention/Institutional Critique, CBS
News Channel 5 News Television News segment, Menlo Park, CA
2013 Fair Housing Advocates Argue Against Gambling on Dream Houses, Rutherford
Grindle, Jan 10th, 2013, IndyBay
2013 Art Practical Event Pick, Occupy the Dream House Press Conference/Action/Art
Intervention, Art Practical
2013 Protesters
Say "Dream House" Raffle a Distraction from Real Housing Woes,
Rutherford
Grindle, IndyBay
2012 Occupy
Moves Its Cause Indoors, Coburn Palmer, SF Weekly 2012 Black Blob, Pictures of the day Telegraph UK
2012 The Black Blob, Occupy Wallstreet West. YouTube moosedog00
2012 Amorphous Black Blob Occupies Wall Street West, Occupy Everything,
San Francisco Financial District
2011 Shop Talk 3 Respondent, Helena Keefe, OpenSpace, SFMOMA
2011 1001 Chairs for Ai WeiWei, KQED Arts, Christian Frock
2010 Cover image, These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16 Books
2010 Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2010
2010 Joseph del Pesco interviews David Lawrence and Cheryl Meeker about
Stretcher
2010 Featured Gallery event on SF Arts.org by Christian L. Frock
2010 Artist’s Response, Portraits and Self-Portraits, by Terri Cohn, Blurb
2008 The Eyes Have It, Traci Vogel, SF Weekly
2006 Anti/Social at Mission 17, Sarah Lockhart, Shotgun Review
2006 Alan W. Moore’s blog review of Considering Curatorial Objectivity, NYFA Current
2004 Double Exposure, Adrienne Gagnon, SF Weekly
2004 The Way We Work, Clark Buckner, SF Bay Guardian
2004 Diamonds and rust, Glen Helfand, San Francisco Bay Guardian
2003 Artweek, Laura Richard Janku, Four Painters, Four Friends
2000 Artists who Transcend Pop, David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner
2000 Critic’s Choice: Didi Dunphy and Cheryl Meeker, Glen Helfand, SFBG
1998 Scope, Gregory Crosby, Four Walls at CAC
1997 The Bay Area Reporter, Stephen Jenkins, Whatever at Southern Exposure
1996 Art Papers, Donna Schumacher, Charles Linder and Cheryl Meeker at Gallery
16
1996 San Francisco Bay Guardian, Harry Roche, Urban Provincial
1996 Artweek, Terri Cohn, Cheryl Meeker at Refusalon
1996 SF Weekly, Melts in your Mind
1996 Bay Times, Artemisia Reiter, Formal Foods at Refusalon and Belcher Studios
1995 SF Weekly, Johnny Ray Huston, Art: The Great American Pastime
COLLABORATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2012 Black Blob Occupies Wall Street West, San Francisco Financial District
2011 I Choose for You: Meg Chooses for Cheryl (Part 3), SFMoMa Open Space
2011 member, Right Window, San Francisco
2010 Capitalism Is Over If You Want It, The Summer of Tough Love, curator, team
member, artist, San Francisco
2008 Contributor, Skank Bloc Bologna number 1, TART, San Francisco
2007 Contibutor, Good Times: Bad Trips, by Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker,
Gallery 16 Editions
2000 Founding member and co-publisher of Stretcher, a San Francisco based visual
art and culture website @ www.stretcher.org
2003 Collaboration with Dan Spencer for Stretcher,"Dan and Cheryl at Home…"
2006 Participated in project by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, corporate board
member for a life as corporation project “Death & Taxes.”
1998 CALF, Coalition of Artists and Life Forms
WRITING AND ONLINE PROJECTS
2012 Keyword: Horizontal, Occupy as Form, ARC Muses blog, UC Berkeley
2011 Frame Capitalism, Not the Earth Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It
2011 I Choose for You: Meg Chooses for Cheryl (Part 3), SFMOMA OPEN SPACE
2010 Will Sit/Lie Stand? Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It
2008-11 Depleted Selves, an online interactive website, with Neil Mackintosh and David
Lawrence, web and technical, http://www.depletedselves.com/
2006 Considering death and thinking about taxes, Third Quarterly Report of Death
& Taxes, a project by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert,
2006 Considering Curatorial Objectivity, NYFA Current
2005 Green Room Now, Documentation of Stretcher events at Bay Area Now,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003 Designing Flesh and Machine, on the work of Robert Ortbal, Marjoriewood
2002 The Ambiguous World of Wayne Smith, review of Aero-Mic'd, by Wayne Smith,
Stretcher.org
2001 High Concept Hand Work, Stretcher.org, Jack Hanley Gallery, Pond, AOV
2001 The Loft Project, in collaboration with the Stretcher editors, Stretcher
2000 Drive By: Snapshots from the Cultural Landscape, Art Papers, Traywick Gallery
1997 Beer Drinking Sonata is the Highest Form of Art, Art Papers, February 1996
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2015 Time and Place, panel discussion, Art Department, California State University
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
2011 Shop Talk: Part Three, OPENSPACE event, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2011 member, Right Window, San Francisco
2010 curatorial, Capitalism Is Over If You Want It, The Summer of Tough Love, San
Francisco
2009 The Orchard Projects, Residency, Ventura, CA
2009 SFAI Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, jury member for exhibitions
program
2008 KPFA radio interview, Morning Show host Aimee Allison interviews Cheryl
Meeker (from 1:38:30 through 1:45:00) http://kpfa.org/archive/id/46126
2008 CCA Extension, Bay Area Art on Location; taught a class exploring emerging art
venues by neighborhood
2007 JFK University, Berkeley, CA, MFA class critique for Mary Webster
2006 Anti/Social, Mission 17’s 3rd Annual juried exhibition, jury member with Clark
Buckner, Michael Zheng, and Elaine Santos
2006 Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, artist lecture for “Art/Theory/Praxis”
2005 UCB Extension, San Francisco, CA, two classes in collaboration with Dan
Spencer for Stretcher taught “Art in the Bay Area”
2004 SFAI, San Francisco, CA, visiting artist discussion of collaborative art groups
for Stretcher for Amy Ellingson
2001 CCA, San Francisco, CA, MFA Independent Study instructor
2000 CCA, San Francisco, CA, visiting artist for Sono Osato