Cynthia Ona Innis (born 1969) is an American painter and visual artist raised in

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and based out of

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, California. Her work has been described as "paintings one doesn't look at so much as immerse oneself in", as well as "sensual" and "organic".Stretcher.org "Amy Globus and Cynthia Ona Innis" by Veronica Kavass
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Biography

Innis graduated with a B.A. degree from the

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and earned her post-graduate M.F.A. degree from

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in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has received the

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Award in printmaking, a

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Fellowship and Residency award and a Sustainable Arts Foundation award, among other awards and recognition. Innis has been a visiting art professor and/or faculty member at several prominent universities and arts institutes. Among the institutions where Innis has taught, are the

, the

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and

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in Boise, Idaho. Her work is represented in the collections of the

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, Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive,

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and the

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Art Collection. Innis is represented by the

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in Los Angeles, California.

Personal life

Innis is the daughter of architect

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and his wife Virginia, a teacher and floral designer. Cynthia Ona Innis is married to Sascha Weiss, Research Chef at Perfect Day. Innis has a daughter with Sascha Weiss and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her sister is film editor

Chris Innis Christina Jean "Chris" Innis is an American film editor and filmmaker. She was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and ACE awards for "Best Film Editing" on the film ''The Hurt Locker'' shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski. She is an elected ...

.Chris Innis IMDB credits
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References

. *Rodriguez, Juan, “Cynthia Innis at the Braunstein/Quay Gallery,” Artweek, Vol. 33, Issue 1, February 2002. *Rubin, Sylvia.“Big Easy,” San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Cover and pages 1, 14-18, February 27, 2005. *Shnoor, Chris, “Satin Underground: Boise Exposed in Pink,” Boise Weekly, Vol. 11, June 2003. *Taft, Catherine. "Cynthia Ona Innis at the Walter Maciel Gallery." ArtReview, August 2006. *Tapley, Brendan. "Open Studio-Painter Cynthia Ona Innis," Artweek, Vol. 34, No. 1, Summer 2005. *Van Proyen, Mark. "'Close Calls: 2006' at Headlands Center for the Arts," Artweek, Vol. 37, Issue 3, April 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Innis, Cynthia Ona 1969 births American contemporary painters Living people Artists from San Diego Rutgers University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American women painters

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