Howie Cherman

Howie Cherman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film from California State University at Long Beach, where he made numerous experimental films while studying film production, history, theory and criticism. Upon graduation he worked in film production and post-production in Los Angeles while continuing to make independent films and videos, as well as taking workshops in performance art, improvisation, and voice over. Desiring a more intensive and interdisciplinary course of study in a fine art context, he enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in New Genres. It was there that he began to develop a large body of conceptually based videos, performances, and installations. He has received an ArtCouncil Individual Artist Grant, a Murphy/Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship and was a member of the Artists Committee of the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Los Angeles in 2001. He began showing at local and national venues while in graduate school, including Pacific Film Archives, Bay Area Video Coalition, Artist Television Access, and The Knitting Factory in New York. Since graduation he has continued showing nationally and internationally at venues including the Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA, four walls projects, The LAB, Southern Exposure and gallery3 in San Francisco, 911 Media Center in Seattle, Luka Gallery in Pula, Croatia, Filmmakers Coop in Vienna, Victoria Arena in Gothenburg, Sweden, and The Collective Unconscious in New York. He has donated and sold work in the annual fundraisers for Headlands Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, Southern Exposure, New Langton Art, TILT, and VisualAid. Howie had a solo show at Southern Exposure in San Francisco in March of 2001 and had his first Los Angeles solo show, “wall to wall,” at South La Brea Gallery in April 2002. His single channel videotapes are archived and distributed by Video Pool in Winnipeg, Canada.

Title: Projection
Show: Chinatown