Cheryl Wheat is a New York based contemporary artist, whose subject matter is the figure. Her large-scale drawings and sculptures maintain a mythic view of human experience.

Wheat grew up in New York, and at a young age studied at the Art Students League and later at the National Academy of Design. She studied stone carving with Noguchi’s carver.
In Rome, Wheat attended the Academia dell Belli Arti. She has been a recipient of a Skowhegan Scholarship, a National Sculpture Society Scholarship from the National Academy of Design, a Brooklyn College Graduate Fellowship, and a National Endowment
for the Arts grant. Cheryl has lived in Rome and Florence for a number of years and has traveled widely throughout Italy. Cheryl Wheat has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. While in Florence, she lived and worked in the church of San Raffaello Archangelo, formerly the sculptor Bartolini’s studio. She was part of a group of artists who formed a new graduate school in the 1980’s, the New York Academy of Art, supported by the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard’s Fogg Museum, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her name appears in Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who of American Women.

Cheryl Wheat has created commissioned sculptures for several designers and worked with the architect Michael Graves. Her work has been included in many publications, museum exhibitions, and private collections. Cheryl Wheat works in New York and lives with her husband, the painter Edward Schmidt and their daughter.