Cheryle St. Onge

Cheryle St. Onge works primarily with an 8” x 10” view camera, approaching portraiture as a deeply collaborative and contemplative process. She embraces the deliberate pace and precision of large-format photography, valuing the quiet mutual observation and shared presence that unfold during the making of a portrait.

St. Onge earned her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has served on the faculty at Clark University, Maine College of Art, and the University of New Hampshire. She has received numerous honors, including a Polaroid Artist Support Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Critical Mass Exhibition Award, and a New Hampshire Charitable Arts Grant.

Her work is widely collected both privately and publicly, with notable holdings at the Polaroid Corporation, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

In addition to her fine art practice, St. Onge is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her editorial photography has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, TIME, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.