American artist and educator Cheryl Goldsleger (born 1951) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her formal education in art in 1969 at the Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania. In 1971 she attended Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Rome. She received her Bachelor's in Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College Art in 1973 and Master's of Fine Art from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1975. Goldsleger employs isometric drawing, painting, and encaustic to create layered, architectural spaces to explore time, perception, and the process of comprehension. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows both in the United States and internationally including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the American Academy in New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Brooklyn Museum, the Islip Art Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Virginia Museum, the New Orleans Museum, the Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv Museum. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships, a Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Fellowship, a residency at the La Napoule Foundation in southern France and a US/France exchange fellowship at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her career as an artist and educator includes professorships at Western Carolina University (1975–1977), Georgia Piedmont College (1988–2001), and Georgia State University (2001–present). Goldsleger lives in Athens, Georgia, where she has resided since 1977.