About Cheryl
Cheryl Newman is a London based artist and curator working with photography. Her practice explores the emotional landscape of love, desire, and family history. Her work mixes archive with storytelling through intervention to describe and examine the photographic representation of memory as both object and illusion.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a winner of A Portrait of Britain, 2023, where her work was exhibited on screens throughout the UK with The British Journal of Photography, JCDecaux and publication with Hoxton Mini Press. Images from her series, SICK IN BED was included in The Eyes #13 / (After)care launched at LA Bal, Paris, during Paris Photo 2022.
Winner of A Portrait of Britain, 2023, work was exhibited in 60 cites though out the UK with The British Journal of Photography, JCDecaux and publication with Hoxton Mini Press. Sick in Bed, The Eyes #13 / (After)care launched at LA Bal, Paris, during Paris Photo 2022.
Shared Grounds, Gallery West, London, 2024
Safelight magazine winner and exhibition, Berlin 2025
Shortlist PH Museum Womens Grant, 2024
Sick in Bed, Der Grief, 2023
Home, Sweet Home, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, USA, 2024.
Between the Lines, The House of Smalls, Chipping Campden, UK 2024
Temporalities’, The Borough Road Gallery, London, 2023.
Three Dialogues, Apocalypse Gallery Nicosia, 2023
Collective 22 group show, Format, Derby 2022.
Head On, Sydney, Australia, 2021
On Looking, The National Museum Gdansk, Gdansk Gallery of Photography, 2019 100 Heroines, London, 2019
NOSTOS: The Old Powerhouse Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus. European Capitol of Culture, 2017
Pingyao Photography Festival China, 2018,
Not the Final Major Project, Brighton Photo Fringe, Hastings, 2018,
Probable Lies, Ambika P3 gallery, London, 2018,
IAMMF, Seoul, Korea, 2018
Santa Fe Centre for photography, New Mexico USA, mentor program, 2022.
Development grant a-n Artist, 2022, the East Meets West Masterclass 2021-2022
Four Corners, London Creative Network artist development programme, 2019.
Genesis Imaging Prize, 2018 for my post graduate exhibition.
Curatorially, she has been worked with the Gaia Foundation to commission and curate We Feed the World, a global photographic project documenting the lives of family and peasant farmers. She curated 209 Women, one of the highest profile exhibitions of 2018 in which all the female MPs in the UK Parliament were photographed by women photographers to celebrate 100 years of suffrage and is now part of the Parliamentary Art collection and has co-curated a show of feminist photography for PHOTO WIENS 2022.
For more than fifteen years she was the Photography Director of the award-winning Telegraph Magazine where she raised the profile of the magazine and commissioned intelligent and inventive photography worldwide. She is a nominator for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize Foundation and has served on juries globally, was the chair of the RPS Photography Awards 2017-2019.
Cheryl has an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at UAL, and Southbank University, London.