I am a photographer and video installation artist. Fundamentally, my photography and video installations explore the concept of connection to the environment, oneself, others, and all living beings.  I believe we humans are not separate entities from nature but are an integral part of it. My work reveals the potent energies at play on our planet, usually invisible to the naked eye but internally sensed during moments of profound wonder.

I was born in New Jersey and in my twenties moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where I studied at the Zurich University of the Arts.  After eight years in Switzerland, I returned to the United States and opened my studio in San Francisco.  My photography work was the inspiration for the Dove Campaign on Real Women, Real Beauty which transformed the way women are viewed in the global media today. 

In 2005, I relocated my studio to the Miami area and immersed myself into filmmaking and fine art photography.  Investigations into video and large-scale installations have expanded my visual world.  My installations are on many topics, including climate change and the environment, and have been exhibited in United States, South America & Europe.

• Permanent Collection Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Coral Springs Museum of Art & Elliott Museum

• The Louvre Museum, Paris, Group Exhibition

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy, Miami New Media Film Festival, Public Art Platform, Art & Technology, Curated Thesis on Water, Climate Change & Communities Traveling Group Exhibition (Bogota, Caracas, Valencia, Miami, Santo Domingo, San Nicolas & Rome)

• Solo Retrospective Coral Springs Museum of Art

• Delta Air Lines, Permanent Collection, Exhibition of Video Installations at Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Los Angeles and JFK/New York Airports

• Aspen Ideas: Climate, Aspen Institute in collaboration with the City of Miami Beach & Miami-Dade County, Dept. of Cultural Affairs

• Montefiore Medical Center, Radiation & Oncology Dept., Permanent Collection, New York

• Solo Exhibition Miami International Airport Sept. 2016-2017

• PBS featured Cheryl Maeder as Project Filmmaker, presenting her film on PBS nationally funded by National Endowment for the Arts

• Submerge, Public Art Video Installation, City of West Palm Beach, FL

• Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York

Coral Springs Museum of Art, Solo Retrospective, Super Natural