Nalini Cheriel


Nalini "Deedee" Cheriel is a visual artist, musician and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California.
WWW deedeecheriel.com

Career

From the age of 19, Cheriel started out creating record covers and T-shirts for the Oregon music scene. She was a member of the band Adickdid, which was distributed by several labels including Yoyo Records and Kill Rock Stars. She also played in the bands Juned, Teen Angels, and The Hindi Guns.
In 2001, Cheriel, along with friends Kurt Voss and Zoe Poledouris, created the film Down and Out With the Dolls. This film is loosely based on Cheriel's life as a musician and the stories she would tell Voss about this time of her life. After this film was released, Cheriel started a band with Voss The Hindi Guns in Los Angeles, California where she lives still.
In Los Angeles, Cheriel continued work as a visual artist, showing at Several Galleries Including New Image Art, erry Karnowski Gallery, and Subliminal Projects. She has created several paintings which continue on the themes she explored in her music, as well as exploring new ones. The main theme of her art, according to Cheriel, would be the attempts of people to connect to the world around them and to each other. Cheriel's interest in the relationship between man and our natural surroundings is apparent from the abundance of animals in her paintings. Cheriel is an environmentalist and political activist using animals to depict human emotions.

Exhibition record

2025

Visual Language: / Subliminal Projects February 2025
Fire Relief Show / Gross Gallery/ January 2025

2024

Into Action 2024 Chicago, IL August, 2024
Moon & Stars: Los Angeles Asian American Women in Art/ BG Gallery May 2024
Artshare: LA Legacy / LA ART SHARE April 2024

2023

Artists For ERA / Virginia Museum of History and Culture February, 2023
California Dreamin / Dorado 806 Projects February, 2023

2022

Modern Folk/ Stephanie Chefas Gallery January, 2022
Cat Art Show/ China Town Arts October, 2022
Art For Peace in Ukraine with Yoko Ono and Cindy Sherman April, 2022
25 Year Anniversary Show/ KP Projects August, 2022
Neutra / Neutra Museum October, 2022

2021

Chauvet Arts August 2021

2020

Witch Women February 2020
Dialect to the Eye Andenken/ Holdout Gallery September 2020
Curves at Battalion Gallery
Geese Are Never Swans by Eva Clark, illustration for book published by Kobe Bryant

2019

Chroma KP Projects 2019

2018

  • Cosmic Connections World Merry Karnowsky Gallery July 2018
We Rise LA October 2018

2017

TWENTY-ONE / Subliminal Projects June 2017
Women of the New Contemporary / Artst Republic May 2017

2016

Deedee Cheriel and Umar Rashid -Frowhawk - Campfire Gallery 2016
Monniker Art Fair London 2018
BLOOM Art Fair/ Battalion Cologne Germany 2016
Art Market Artist Republic 2016

2015

  • Natural Resource Merry Karnowsky Gallery July 2015
Platinum Blend Modern Eden Project 2015
The Provocateurs Art Alliance 2015

2014

  • More Than Another Shiny Object Merry Karnowsky Gallery July 2014
Spaces // Squared White Walls Gallery May 2014
Wider Than a Postcard Breeze Block Gallery 2014
Affordable Art Fair Coates and Scarry 2014

2013

  • Episodes in the Abundant Oasis Merry Karnowsky Gallery July 2013
  • McCaig Welles Gallery June 2013
  • Moniker Art Fair October 2013
  • Little Spirit and Infinite Longing, Pure Evil Gallery March 2010

2012

  • AIko, Tara McPherson & Deedee Cheriel: Merry Karnowsky Gallery February 2012
  • Just Passing Through September 2012
  • Busy Being March 2012
  • University Of Milwaukee February 2012
  • Street Art Show LA ARTS April 2012
  • Unnatural History July 2012
  • Unnatural History April 2012

2011

  • Modern Fabulist View Gallery April 2011
  • FemkeHiemstra, Audrey Kawasaki & Deedee Cheriel: Merry Karnowsky Gallery July 2011

2010

  • Abracaabra Merry Karnowsky Gallery October 2010
  • Art Basel Art Fair McCaig Welles Gallery December 2010
  • SUBject/ SubJECT Subliminal Projects May 2010
  • Amsterdam Art Fair: Mauger Modern March 2010

2009

  • True Self: Jonathan LeVine Gallery October 2009
  • Beyond Eden: Subliminal Projects September 2009
  • Lovable Like Orphaned Kitties and Bastard Children: Green Gallery May 2009
  • Together We Are: Barracuda July 2009
  • Sunset Junction: LA ART August 2009
  • Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children: Green Gallery
  • Print Heavy: NOMAD Gallery
  • Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children: LACE Gallery
  • Harmonious Glory: Mei Xue Gallery

2008

  • Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet: Subliminal Projects May 2008
  • TBD White Walls Gallery December 2008
  • Cologne Art Fair: McCaig-Welles Gallery October 2008
  • Look!: Jail Gallery August 2008
  • *Deedee Cheriel Recent Works : Stitch Gallery December 2008
  • New Works: Welles-Rosenthal Gallery June 2008

2007

  • Bridge Art Fair: Art Basel
  • Into the Stars and Always Up: McCaig Welles Gallery
  • Tiger in a Tropical Storm: Riviera Gallery
  • Tall Totem Pole: Gallery 1269
  • Fountain Art Fair: McCaig Welles Gallery
  • Bridge Art Fair: Mc Caig Welles
  • The Girls Room: Jen Bekman Gallery
  • Jail Weddings: Jail Gallery

2005-2006

  • Pop, Bang, Slide: Autopsy Gallery
  • 5ives: Receiver Gallery
  • Market Show: Stall 54
  • Free words: Free Biennial
  • The Group Show: David Allen Gallery
  • 2 Artists: FLUXCO Gallery
  • Sunset and St. Marks: Capla-Kesting Fine Art
  • Sunset and St. Marks: Capla-Kesting Fine Art
  • Bridge Art Fair: Art Basel
  • 1st and Hope: Brian Lotti Space

2000-2004

  • Street / School Girls: New Image Art Gallery
  • Hollywood Bowl: Track 16 Gallery
  • ArtPolitix: ArtSpace
  • Street notes: Blue Box
  • Salon Du Petit: Gallery 825
  • Small Creatures: Dirt Gallery
  • Ms. Understood: Planet 24 Gallery