David A. Cherry - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	14-December-1949
Place of Birth	Lawton (Comanche County, Oklahoma, Area code 580)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	David Alan Cherry, David Cherry
David A. Cherry is an American artist, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He has been nominated eleven times for Hugo Awards, and 18 times for Chesley Awards, and he is a past president of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Cherry is the brother of the science fiction writer C. J. Cherryh, and has painted cover art for some of her books as well as books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sean Dalton, Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey and Piers Anthony. Cherry graduated from high school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where his sister, noted above, was his Latin teacher. He also took art classes in high school. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. then earned his law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma. He began working for a law firm that specialized in regulations affecting the trucking industry. When this industry was deregulated by the U.S. government, he found his law skills less marketable. Cherry had sold his first professional work in 1980 and by 1982 was working as a lawyer part-time. In 1984, he made the decision to try to make a living doing work he really enjoyed, drawing and painting and left his law practice.

Awards by David A. Cherry

Check all the awards nominated and won by David A. Cherry.

2003

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1998

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1994

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1993

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1992

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1991

Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction	Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Related Work	Imagination: The Art & Technique of David A. Cherry
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

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