Draft:Myrel Chernick

Chernick participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1975–1976^[3]

Beginning in the late 1970s, Chernick developed feminist text-based multimedia installations. In the 1990s she focused on text-based work specifically exploring themes of maternal ambivalence.^[2]

In 2004 she curated Maternal Metaphors at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center,^[4][5] and an expanded version co-curated with Jennie Klein was shown at Ohio University in 2006.^[6] She and Klein have contributed chapters to anthologies from Routledge.^[7]

• National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship (1989–90)^[8]
• National Endowment for the Arts United States/Canada Creative Artists’ Residency (1995)^[9]
• Multiple Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grants^[1]

• Myrel Chernick and Katy Martin, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France (2025).^[10][11]
• Accouchement/Birthing, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France (2025).^[12]
• Maternal Metaphors, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY (2004)^[4][13]
• New Work, New York/Outside New York, The New Museum, New York, NY (1984).^[14][15]
• Film as Installation, The Clocktower (MoMA PS1), New York, NY (1983).^[16]
• Mediums of Language, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA (1982).^[17][18]
• Don’t Make Waves, Artists Space, New York (1981)^[19]
• 4 Installations, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY (1979).^[20]
• Special Project, MoMA PS1, Queens, New York, NY (1977).^[16]

• The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein. Demeter Press, 2011.^{[21][22][23][24]}
• “Reflections on Art, Motherhood and Maternal Ambivalence,” in Reconciling Art and Mothering, edited by Rachel Epp Buller. Routledge, 2012.^[25]
• “The Studio Visit” and “Time Passes,” in The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, 2011.^[21]

• "Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene" colloquium participant, University of Alberta, Edmonton (May 2016).^[26][27]

• Cliff Eyland, "Transition and Trajectory: The Art of Myrel Chernick". First published 1998, revised 2002.
• Loveless, Natalie (2013). "Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein Eds, The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art". Studies in the Maternal. 5 (1): 1–6. doi:10.16995/sim.33.
• "Resource Library". Artist Parent Index. Retrieved 2026-03-13.

• Official website
• Myrel Chernick – MoMA Artist Page
• Myrel Chernick présentation « She Was/She Wasn't »
• First Friday: Art, Motherhood and Ambivalence in the Anthropocene by Myrel Chernick
• Myrel Chernick lecture « Lumières et ombres de Paris »
• Myrel Chernick – A Year of Positive Thinking