Cheeroth received his BFA and MFA in Painting from Shantiniketan and was the recipient of the Kerala State Lalit Kala Akademi Award (1998). He also held a Junior National Research Fellowship from 1997-1999. Cheeroth looks to development, re-construction and infrastructure as subject matter for his bold visual language. His work often engages with the notion of an urban identity as he examines the ever-changing interstices of local and global identities

Selected exhibitions include ‘Habitus’ at Sumukha Art Gallery, Chennai (2010); ‘Mise-En-Scène’ at Viart Gallery, New Delhi (2007); ‘Connective Delineations’ at FSCA, Mumbai (2009); ‘The Art of India – 20 Years of Contemporary Indian Art’ in Munich, Germany (2009); ‘A Look to the Future’ at the PAC Gallery, Cincinnati (2010); SH Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai (2008); The Chicago Art Fair (2009); ‘Spectrum’ at the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (2009); and ‘Passage to India-Part Two: New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen Collection” in Wolverhampton, U.K. (2010).