Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Cheryl Gross is an illustrator, painter, writer, motiongraphic artist, living and working in the New York area. She is a professor at Pratt Institute and Bloomfield College.

Cheryl received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, publications, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections including: O Bheal Poetry Film Competition Winner, 2015, Cork Ireland, Cyclop Video Poetry Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014, Tarp Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014, Video Bardo, Argentina, 2014, Poesiefestival, Berlin, Germany, 2014, ReVersed Poetry Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014, The Body Electric, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2013, Filmpoem, Scotland, 2012, International Short Film Festival, Berlin, 2012, The Zebra International Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, 2012, 2014 & 2016, 35th International San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, 100 New York Painters, Schiffler Publishing, Riverside Museum, Riverside, Ca., USA, The Museum of The City of New York, Mississippi Museum of Art, The New York Times, Comedynet.com, Associatedcontent.com, Current TV, Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany, Kommanndantenhaus Dilsberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, 2018.

Her illustration credits include; Jimmy Stewart and His Poems, Crown Publishing, Circe, Lowbrow Press, Becoming Judas, Red Hen Press, In The Circus Of You, Rose Metal Press, and The Z Factor, which she has written and illustrated, IUniverse Press, Business Bear Press.

When asked about her work:
“I equate my work with creating and building an environment, transforming my inner thoughts into reality. Beginning with the physical process, I work in layers. I am involved in solving visual and verbal complexities such as design and narrative. My urban influence has indeed added an ‘edge’ to my work.”

Cheryl has often been compared to Dr. Seuss on crack.