Anthony Cudahy (born Florida, 1989) is an American painter. Cudahy's approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs, movie stills, queer archival images and ephemera, and art history. Cudahy lives and works in

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Early life and education

Cudahy was born in Florida in 198

Cudahy graduated from the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

, Brooklyn, New York in 2011 and will receive his MFA from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

, New York, NY in 2020 (''anticipated).''

Work

Cudahy's paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites. Cudahy explains this in an interview, "The transformation and degradation an image is subjected to through reproduction creates a language itself with codes and signifiers. This can be the pixelation of an image repeating itself online or a cast shadow of a photographic flash placed in a painting. When I appropriate an image and translate it into painting, it is both an iteration and an interpretation. The painting is another chain in this lineage. Another layer in an image's history. The translation is my brain working through the image; the painting is a record of thoughts."

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions * ''Night Paintings'' 1969 Gallery, New York, NY, 2018 * ''The Gathering,'' The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2018 * ''NARSOLIPS,'' Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 * ''EatF_3,'' Mumbo's Outfit, within Geary Contemporary, New York, NY, 2016 * ''The Fourth Part of the Day,'' Farewell Books, Austin, TX, 2015 * ''Recent Work,'' Artha Project Space, Long Island City, NY, 2015 * ''Heaven Inside,'' Uprise Art Outpost, Chelsea, NY, 2014 Selected two-person and group exhibitions * ''Moments of Intimacy, with Kyle Coniglio &

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,'' 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2018 * ''Metaxis Uber Pool,'' Hilde TX, Houston, TX, 2018 * ''CAPITA,'' Danese/Corey, NY, NY, 2018 * ''Rude Assembly,'' Sydney, Australia, 2018 * ''Queering Space,'' Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2018 * ''Backyard Biennial,'' curated by Patrice Helmar, Ridgewood, Queens, 2017 * ''Visible Scene,'' Practice, NY, NY, 2017 * ''LOST IN THE WORLD,'' Mulherin, NY, NY, 2017 * ''CUDAHY/FRATINO/GLANTZ,'' Harpy Gallery, Rutherford, NJ, 2017 * ''Everything Real,'' Hap Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016 * ''WILL YOU,'' Pratt Institute's Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 * ''Plus ça change,'' St. Josephs College, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 * ''Bindle,'' curated by Sorry Archive, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 * ''Public/Private/Portrait,'' Mossless 4 release, Deli Gallery, L.I.C., NY, 2016 * ''CORPUS,'' Reverse, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 * ''Anthony Cudahy and Nick Van Zanten,'' the Dawn Hunter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015 * ''Decoding Campground Symbols,'' Cudayh, L.A., CA, 2015 * ''BLOOMSDAY,'' The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, 2015 * ''Say It With Flowers,'' Kimberly-Klark Gallery, Ridgewood, NY, 2015 * ''A Faintly Lit Light,'' The Perfect Nothing Catalog, Brooklyn, NY, 2014 * ''And the Villagers Never Liked You Anyways,'' Sorry Archive at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, 2014 * ''Still Wearing Each Other When Alone,'' Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, 2014

References

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