Cheryl Walker has been actively exhibiting her work in Los Angeles and nationally for three decades and her work is held in private collections internationally. She has created live visual effects in collaborative performance at REDCAT and MOCA. Walker has performed with Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement, Rachel Rosenthal’s TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble, Simone Forti, and many others. Walker was recently commissioned to create a nine-venue participatory public art project in Minneapolis, MN and, she has created numerous public art installations in the greater Los Angeles region.
Walker completed an MFA in Drawing and Painting at California State University, Long Beach as well as graduate studies in Design at UCLA and English at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches at Long Beach City College and Santa Monica Emeritus College. Through her long affiliation with the MOCA education department, Walker has also facilitated numerous educational partnerships and collaborations with LA Master Chorale, LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, UCLA Live, LAUSD Teachers, LA County Museum of Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Japanese American National Museum, Torrance Art Museum, CityLife, Armory Center for the Arts, LA Municipal Art Gallery, and the National Council of Jewish Women.
