Cherry Hood is an Australian artist, best known for her oversized paintings of children's faces.
13 Facts About Cherry Hood
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Cherry Alexandra Hood was born in Sydney in 1950, and is the great granddaughter of Australian photographer, Sam Hood.
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Cherry Hood attained a Master of Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 2000.
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Cherry Hood's thesis investigated gender politics in art and culture, cultural mores and taboos surrounding the representation of the male body.
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Cherry Hood's works have been collected by most major institutions in Australia and many corporate and private collections.
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Cherry Hood has had solo shows in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver.
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Cherry Hood prefers to work in watercolour, which she allows to bleed and drip, to produce her oversized paintings.
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Cherry Hood has become well known for her haunting, large-scale images of young boy's faces.
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Cherry Hood won the 2002 Archibald Prize for her portrait Simon Tedeschi Unplugged.
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In 2003 Cherry Hood won the Kedumba Drawing Award for her graphite, coloured pencil, watercolour drawing named Joshua.
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Cherry Hood went to one of his concerts, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and then asked him to sit for her.
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Cherry Hood saw my work and he understood what I was doing.
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Cherry Hood illustrated JT LeRoy's 2004 novel Harold's End with a series of her distinctive portraits as well as pictures of Harold, the pet snail whose name gives the book its title.