Cynthia Carlson (born 1942) is an American visual artist, living and working in New York.

Personal life and education

Carlson was born in 1942 in

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. She graduated from

Kelvyn Park High School Kelvyn Park High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Hermosa neighborhood on north-west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1933, Kelvyn Park is operated by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district. In addition ...

in Chicago and then attended the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

. She received her BFA in 1965. She moved to New York City and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, graduating with her MFA in 1967. She is married to Robert Gino Bertoletti.

Career

In the 1960s, Carlson's art was influenced by the work of

The Hairy Who The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, Surrealism and complete i ...

and

Chicago Imagists The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, Surrealism and complete ind ...

artists in Chicago. During the 1970s, she was a pioneer of the "

Pattern and Decoration Pattern and Decoration was a United States art movement from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The movement has sometimes been referred to as "P&D" or as The New Decorativeness. The movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The ...

" group in New York City, in which the

Feminist movement The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement, or feminism) refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality between men and women. Such ...

played an important role. Mainly a painter, her work has evolved within a number of different stylistic concerns including installation, sculpture, and public art commissions. Carlson's career has included nine solo museum exhibitions: ''Homage to the Academy Building'',

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(1979),

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, PA; ''Insideout Oberlin'', Allen Memorial Museum (1980), Oberlin, OH; ''Eastlake Then and Now'',

Hudson River Museum The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948. While often considered an art museum by th ...

(1981), Yorkers, NY; ''Four False Facades'',

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is a multimedia contemporary art gallery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. SECCA has no permanent collection but offers exhibitions of works by artists with regional, national, and international ...

(1981),

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, NC; ''Currents'',

Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. Location and Visit Located on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the largest art museu ...

(1982),

Milwaukee Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee ...

, WI; ''Picture That In Miami'',

Lowe Art Museum Lowe Art Museum is the art museum of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The museum is located on the campus of the University of Miami and is accessible by Miami Metrorail at University Station. Lowe Art Museum's comprehensive co ...

(1982), Coral Gables, FL; ''The Monument Series'',

Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...

, Buffalo, NY;

Queens Museum The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum was founded in 1972, and has among its pe ...

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, NY; and T''he Dog Show'',

Neuberger Museum of Art Neuberger Museum of Art is located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system. It is the nation's tenth-largest university museum. The museum is one of 14 sites o ...

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, SUNY, NY and forty-seven one person gallery exhibitions in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, includin
Hundred Acres Gallery
(1975), New York, NY; ''The Gingerbread House'', Graduate Center (1977), CUNY, NY; Pam Adler Gallery (1979, 1981, 1983), New York, NY; ''Vietman: Sorry About That'', University Art Galleries, Wright State University (1988), Dayton, OH; an
Freedman Gallery
(1989), Albright College, Reading, PA; ''Over Time'', Essex Flowers Gallery (2018), New York, NY. Her work was included in numerous group exhibitions and biennials in museums and galleries in North America and

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, including ''Twenty-Six Contemporary Women Artists'',

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Aldrich has no permanent collection and is the only museum in Connecticut that is dedicated solely to the exhibition of contemporary art. The museum presents the first ...

(1971), Ridgefield, CN, curated by

Lucy Lippard Lucy Rowland Lippard (born April 14, 1937) is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator. Lippard was among the first writers to argue for the " dematerialization" at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. S ...

; ''Extraordinary Realities'', Whitney Museum of American Art (1973), New York, NY, curated by Robert M. Doty; ''Pattern Painting'', P.S.1 (1977), Long Island City, NY; ''Contemporary Women: Consciousness & Content'', Brooklyn Museum (1977), NY, curated by

Joan Semmel Joan Semmel (born October 19, 1932) is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer. She is best known for her large scale realistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down. Education and political involvement Semme ...

; ''Rooms'', Hayden Gallery (1981),

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, MA. Three rooms exhibit with

Richard Haas Richard John Haas (born August 29, 1936) is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the ''trompe-l'œil'' style. Haas has a 1959 B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and a 1964 M.F.A. from the U ...

and

Richard Artschwager Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism. Early life and art Richard Artschwager was born to Euro ...

; ''War and Memory: In the Aftermath of Vietnam'', Washington Project for the Arts (1987),

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; ''Pattern & Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985'',

(2007),

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, curated b
Anne Swartz
''That Was Then, This Is Now''
CUE Art Foundation
(2010), New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr &

Irving Sandler Irving Sandler (July 22, 1925 – June 2, 2018) was an American art critic, art historian, and educator. He provided numerous first hand accounts of American art, beginning with abstract expressionism in the 1950s. He also managed the Tanager Ga ...

; and ''Pattern, Crime & Decoration'', Museum of Contemporary Art (2018-2019),

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, Switzerland, and Le Consortium,

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, curated b
Franck Gautherot
and Seungduk Kim. Her public commissions include, ''LA: City of Angels'' (1993), Los Angeles Metro Rail System through the Los Angeles County Transportation Art for the Rail Transit Program, Los Angeles, CA and ''Gingerbread House'' (1977),

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, in Lewiston, NY, a 13-feet high life size sculpture. She taught for 40 years at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and at the Queens College, CUNY, where she is

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. She served on the Artist Advisory Committee of th
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
and on the Advisory Committee of the

Ree Morton Ree Morton (August 3, 1936 – April 30, 1977) was an American visual artist who was closely associated with the postminimalist and feminist art movements of the 1970s. Life and career Ree Morton was born on August 3, 1936, in Ossining, New Yo ...

Estate. She has lived in

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for a year at a time on several occasions, as well as traveling extensively in Europe and elsewhere. In the early 1970s, for several years, she traveled throughout the United States documenting Environmental

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lectured extensively on the material. In 2012, she donated the entire collection of visuals and documents to the L'Art Brut Museum in

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, Switzerland.

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, New York, NY *

Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...

, New York, NY *

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...

, New York, NY * Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY *

, Buffalo, NY * Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA *

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

, Philadelphia, PA *

Allentown Art Museum The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is an art museum located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by noted Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Walter Emerson Baum. With its collection of over 19,000 ...

, Allentown, PA * Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL *

The Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park (Chicago), Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and list of largest art museums, largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visit ...

, Chicago, IL *

Allen Memorial Art Museum The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) is an art museum located in Oberlin, Ohio, and it is run by Oberlin College. Founded in 1917, the collection contains over 15,000 works of art. Overview The AMAM is primarily a teaching museum and is aimed at ...

, Oberlin, OH * University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO *

, Milwaukee, WI *

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (colloquially MSU Broad), is a contemporary art museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. It opened on November 10, 2012. History On June 1, 2007, Michigan State received a $28 millio ...

, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI * Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL *

San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The museum spans 5,000 years of global culture. The museum is housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewery (1886) on the Museum Reach of the San Antonio ...

, San Antonio, TX

Awards

* 2020

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressio ...

Award * 1993 Foundation Award, Residency for Study And Conference Center
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center
Bellagio, Italy * 1975, 1978, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

Fellowship * 1977 Natural Heritage Trust Artist-in-Residence Grant,

, Lewiston, NY * 1976 The

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowel ...

Fellowship

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlson, Cynthia 1942 births Living people American women painters Artists from Chicago School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Pratt Institute alumni 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists

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