Cindy Wright is an artist who was born in Herentals, Belgium on November 29, 1972. She earned a Master in the Visual Arts (painting) from the

Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, ...

in 1996 and a laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp in 2006. She currently lives and works in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. She is best known for her large-scale paintings with a macabre twist, often described as

photorealism Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...

. ''Untitled (Self-portrait)'' from 2008, in the collection of the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single col ...

, demonstrates the artist's gritty, non-idealized style. The

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Modern and contemporary artwork in the Frederick R. Weisman collection are displayed i ...

(Los Angeles), the Het Museum van Elsene (Brussels, Belgium), the

, the Las Vegas Art Museum, the

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and co ...

(Madison, Wisconsin), the

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (or MCASD), in San Diego, California, US, is an art museum focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the present. Mission The stated mission of ...

(California), and the

are among the public collections holding work by Cindy Wright.The artist’s website
/ref>

Bibliography

* Lumpkin, Libby, ''Cindy Wright, Paintings 2004-2006'', Las Vegas Art Museum, 2006. * Mark Moore Gallery, ''Cindy Wright'', Antwerp, Mark Moore Gallery, 2009.

Footnotes

External links

*
Cindy Wright in AskArt.com
1972 births American women painters Photorealist artists People from Herentals Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century Belgian painters 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American painters 21st-century Belgian painters 21st-century American women artists Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni {{US-painter-stub