Cheri Christensen was born in 1961, in Enumclaw, Washington, a small rural town of horse and cattle ranches and dairies at the foot of Mt. Rainier. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated from the University of Washington.

Cheri studied oil painting intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protégé of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian Impressionists. In her studies, Cheri concentrated on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light on forms.

The first painting she submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious exhibition at the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Her first painting of animals received the Beatrice Jackson Memorial award for the Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of America show in 1995. She has since gone on to be both represented and awarded in numerous regional, national, and international shows.

Cheri is a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society as well as the American Academy of Women Artists and a member of the Oil Painters of America. She lives in northern New Mexico with her husband Ron.

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