Cheryl Sourkes

Cheryl Sourkes (born 1945) is a Canadian photographer, video and new media artist.

Early life Cheryl Sourkes was born and grew up in Montreal. She had an early interest in photography and had her own darkroom by the time she was eighteen. She studied biology and psychology at McGill University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science. She then moved to Vancouver in 1967 to undertake graduate studies at Simon Fraser University in psychology, and focused on the subject of consciousness, but decided to be an artist.

Career Sourkes' work is inspired by her experience of the world around her, selected and edited, and raises questions about socio-political and ideological issues. In 2017, Cheryl Sourkes Networks was shown at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects in Toronto.

She lives in Toronto

Collections Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Concordia University Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum and elsewhere.