Cheyenne Raduha is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago.
My practice is grounded in material honesty and quiet risk. I work primarily with minimally processed materials; clay, wood, metal, stone, grasses, beads, and basketry. I’m drawn to craft traditions and hand manipulation as a form of physical, emotive meditation, allowing materials to guide the work rather than forcing a fixed medium or outcome.
Balance, change, and near-failure recur throughout my work. Vessels balance on found stones, objects hold the possibility of falling, and materials visibly shift with time and use. These works depend on placement, patience, and attention. Failure is not an endpoint but a condition; one that mirrors how we navigate our bodies, relationships, and environments.
Femininity is embedded in the work not as image but as structure. I am interested in unseen systems of care, intuition, repetition, labor, and endurance. Vessels become bodies. Stones become anchors. Materials mark time through erosion, burning, softening, and breakage.
Ritual and homage guide my process. Small gestures, hidden forms, subtle shifts in weight, and acts of balancing become private systems within the work. Not everything is intended to reveal itself. I am interested in objects that can be encountered without being completely known; allowing the work to hold what I do not speak openly.
The work is meant to be encountered slowly. It is something to be found rather than announced: a quiet offering where instability, care, restraint, and resilience coexist.
BIO
Cheyenne Raduha is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Raised on a farm in northern Illinois, she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a background in craft, fabrication, and teaching. Her practice moves between sculpture, ceramics, drawing, installation, and object-making.
