MYREL CHERNICK is an artist and writer living in New York. Beginning in the late 1970s/early 80s she created text-based multimedia installations and videotapes that have been shown nationally and internationally, at venues such as Artists Space, PS I, and the Whitney Museum at Equitable Center in New York, the List Gallery at MIT, Plug-In and Videopool galleries in Winnipeg, Canada and the International Cultural Center in Antwerp, Belgium. She developed and curated the exhibit Maternal Metaphors, presented at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in 2004. An expanded version, co-curated with Jennie Klein, was shown at Ohio University in 2006. Their comprehensive anthology The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art was published in 2011 by Demeter Press. Chernick has been the recipient of National Endowment and New York State Artist Fellowships and has lectured widely on her work as both artist and curator. She is currently developing a site-specific multimedia installation as well as writing and illustrating a hybrid novel set in Paris in the 1980s.

Tanya / Sam 17, Digital Video, 2013; image courtesy of the artist.