Michael Cherney

Michael Cherney (b. 1969, New York, USA) graduated from Binghamton University, State University of New York, with a degree in Chinese and East Asian History, and advanced his Chinese studies at Beijing Language and Culture University in 1991. Over thirty years later, Cherney still resides in Beijing, traveling extensively across the Chinese landscape through photography. His significant solo exhibitions include The Heart-Mind Learns From the Eyes: The Art of Michael Cherney (Three Shadows Photography Art Center / +3 Gallery, Beijing, 2018); Among Stone and Mist: Chinese Landscape Photography by Michael Cherney (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2014); and Reframing (798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, 2006). Selected group exhibitions include Whisper of Peaks and Streams – A Grand View of AnHui's Culture and Art (Minsheng Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, 2025); and Go With the Flow (Fotografiska, Shanghai, 2024).