As a lifelong learner and teacher, Cheri Groom has worn many hats. Art director, graphic designer, trainer, teacher, writer, and public speaker. The common thread has always been creative invention. Her visual arts training began in her youth and continued with an art degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She spent two decades immersed in a dynamic career as an award-winning art director and creative group head for several large advertising agencies. This was followed by a career pivot that found her applying her design and marketing background to help propel successful outcomes for various special events and programs. Ultimately, it was a shift in her late husband’s career that originally brought her to beautiful Hawai’i Island where she soon reignited her love for the fine arts and painting. Living on the island has expanded her deeper connection to inner worlds and to the outer world that is alive all around us. Cheri is also passionate about working experimentally in the contemporary revival of an ancient method of painting using refined beeswax and oil, commonly referred to as “oil and cold wax.”
Hawai’i Island Art Association Board of Directors-Secretary
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Hawaii Nei Juried Art Exhibition / Wailoa Center
Abstract Only International Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
2nd Place Award
Spring Invitational Art Exhibit, Wailoa Center
2023 Sauveterre-de-Béarne, France, Group Exhibit
Abstract Only! Multi-Media National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center Juror’s Award Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Recognition Award Midsummer Art Celebration 6th Annual Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
Art at the Capitol Exhibit, Hawaii Capitol Building, Honolulu, HI
2022 Women in Art Group Exhibition / Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Midsummer Art Celebration 5th Annual Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
Abstract Only! Multi-Media National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
2021 Abstract Only! Multi-Media National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
Midsummer Art Celebration 4th Annual Juried Exhibit
2020 Nā ‘Aumauka Invitational Exhibition / Volcano Art Center
Hawai’i Nei Juried Art Exhibition / Wailoa Center
Abstract Only! 10th Anniversary National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Recognition Award Purchase
36th Annual Founders Juried Art Show /Waimea Arts Council
Sacred Sites, New Beginnings Exhibit/ Waimea Arts Council
2019 Hawai’i Nei Juried Art Exhibition / Wailoa Center
Abstract Only! Multi-Media National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
“Portals” All-Hawai’i Juried Art Exhibition/ Waimea Arts Council
2018 Hawaii Contemporary Art Exhibit / East Hawai’i Cultural Center
Hawai’i Nei Juried Art Exhibition / Wailoa Center
Abstract Only! Multi-Media National Juried Exhibit / Wailoa Center
Invitational Art Exhibit on Maunakea / East Hawai’i Cultural Arts Center