Born in 1978, Baltimore, MD. Lives and works in Baltimore, MD.
EDUCATION
2001
B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Lemon, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Light Atlas, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
2022
Xanadu, The Sunday Painter, London, United Kingdom
This Land is My Land/Your Land, Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2021
As I Lay Dying, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Light Atlas, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2020
Vape Smoke, The Sunday Painter, London, United Kingdom
2019
Elegy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Picture Lake, Sunday Painter, London, United Kingdom
There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Light Atlas, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Pure Products of America go Crazy., CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
2016
There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Light Atlas, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
Home. This must be the place., Rowhouse Project, Baltimore, MD
2014
Das Tauschregal, Six Decades, New York, NY
I love you more than one more day, Fort Worth Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2013
Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
2012
CCTV, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
2011
Gallery and Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York, NY
2007
Cynthia Daignault, Plane Space, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, curated by Anna Katz with Paula Kroll, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020, curated by Jamillah James with Jack Schneider, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Therein the Beauty, Marinaro, New York, NY
Echoes of Paradise, curated by Alejandro Jassan, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY
When the Sky Changes Tone, I’ll be absolutely Tender, curated by R.H. Lossin, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2023
Visible World, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2022
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Greener Grass, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2021
New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, NY
How Do We Know the World?, The Baltimore Museum of Art, contemporary wing, Baltimore, MD
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2020
Landscape Art and Virtual Travel: Highlights from the Collections of the HRM and Art Bridges, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Majeure Force, Part One & Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Four x Five, Dallas Art Fair Projects, Dallas, TX
Multiple Views on the Collection, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2019
A Photograph by Jack Pierson and Paintings by Cynthia Daignault and Chason Matthams, Tyler Wood Gallery, New York, NY
Ancient History of the Distant Future, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA
The Land That I Live In, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LandEscape: New Visions of the Landscape, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2.7 degrees, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
CONDO, The Sunday Painter, London, United Kingdom
2018
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
Blue State, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bentonville, AR; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and New Britain Museum of
American Art, New Britain, CT
Art & Power: Reading The Collection Through Civic Engagement,” Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Flower Petal Tongues, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
Lure of the Dark, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Home this must be the place, MKG127, Toronto, Canada
Paint School, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Figure in a Landscape, Foxy Productions, New York, NY
Recognize you when she sees you, September Gallery, New York, NY
Sky Above Clouds, Darrow Contemporary, Aspen, CO
2017
Taking Pictures, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
True Lies, curated by Simon Cole, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cynthia Daignault, Dan Fischer, Ellen Lesperance, Derek Eller, New York, NY
American Genre, ICA at MECA, Portland, MA
Melancholic Love, Mass Moca, North Adams, MA
Post-Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016
Ekphrastic, Yours, Mine and Ours, New York, NY
Walk Artisanal, organized by Peter Harkawik and Miles Huston, Los Angeles, CA
Postcard from New York, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Unstructured Merriment, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2015
Social Ecologies, curated by Greg Lindquist, Rail Curatorial Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Rural Violence, curated by Brandon Stosuy, Woodside Church, Troy, NY
Wayfarers, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Thief Among Thieves, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
Touch the Spindle, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
I love you more than one more day, Fort Worth Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2014
50 years of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks, New York, NY
spectral haze event horizon, Blackston Gallery, New York, NY
Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Don’t Look Now, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Help Is on the Way, Wasserman Projects, Birmingham, MI
2013
Expósito, Frank. “Critics’ Picks: Cynthia Daignault.” Artforum.com, October 20, 2013.
Expósito, Frank. “The Lookout: Cynthia Daignault.” Art in America, September 27, 2013.
Expósito, Frank. “Goings on About Town: Cynthia Daignault.” The New Yorker, September 30, 2013, pp. 8.
Expósito, Frank. “The Approval Matrix.” New York Magazine, September 30, 2013, pp.108.
Halle, Howard. “Five Paintings Exhibits to See.” Time Out New York. 12–18 September 2013, pp. 38.
Peña, Arthur. “Cynthia Daignault interviewed by Arthur Peña,” ArtHaps.com, September 6, 2013.
Darwin, Liza. “Artist in Residence: Cynthia Daignault,” Nylon, September 5, 2013.
Valli, Marc. “Showcase: Cynthia Daignault,” Elephant, Issue #15, Summer, p. 18–23.
2012
The Fifth Season of the Artist’s Institute, The Artist’s Institute, New York, NY
Can’t Stop Rock Lobster, a Merkx & Gwynne project, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Today, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
2011
Masters of Reality, Brooklyn Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Six Decades Books, New York, NY
2008
Group Show, Glen Horowitz, East Hampton, NY
Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY
2007
Group Show, Glen Horowitz, East Hampton, New York, NY
2005
New Batch a.k.a loudiamondphillips, Plane Space, New York, NY
2004
Painting, Plane Space, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Porterfield, Carlie, “Slimmer Frieze Los Angeles fair has simmering start on first VIP day,” The Art Newspaper, February 29.
2023
Turner, Kenneth. "5 Artists You Need To See at the Dallas Art Fair," Cultured, April 21, 2023.
McDonnell, Brandy. “A Baltimore Artist’s Painting of the Oklahoma City Bombing Comes Home to Downtown OKC,” The Oklahoman, April 19, 2023.
“OKCMOA opens single-painting exhibition to remember Oklahoma City Bombing,”Oklahoma’s News 4 (KFOR), March 23, 2023.
Lesser, Casey. “Inside Felix Art Fair’s Bustling Fifth Edition,” Artsy, February 16, 2023.
2022
Benson, Louise. “Cynthia Daignault: I Learned from Felix Gonzalez-Torres That Less Can Be More,” Elephant Magazine, January 6, 2022.
2021
“Top Artists to Join Their Rosters,” Artnet News, December 1, 2021.
Cassady, Daniel. “‘The pandemic isn’t going anywhere, but the world keeps spinning’: galleries make hay while they can at Art Basel in Miami Beach,” The Art Newspaper, December 2, 2021.
Ludel, Wallace. “Cynthia Daignault,” Artforum, December 7, 2021.
Davis, Ben. “The New Museum’s Muted 2021 Triennial Reflects Culture’s Inward Turn, and
Perhaps Its Exhaustion,” Artnet News, November 9, 2021.
Cotter, Holland. “New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power,” The New York Times, November 4, 2021.
“Cynthia Daignault,” Frieze, vol. 222, October, 2021.
Abdessamad, Farah. “10 Artists to Discover at the 2021 New Museum Triennial,” Artsy,
October 28, 2021. Davis, Ben. “’In Pictures’ See Highlights of the New Museum’s Very
Subtle New Triennial,” Artnet News, October 28, 2021.
Cassady, Daniel. “’It is like spring in the art world’: A more civilized, ‘humane’ Frieze New
York bodes well for the market,” The Art Newspaper, May 6, 2021.
Kelly, Brian P. “Frieze New York Review: The tArt Fair Is Back,” The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2021.
“Frieze New York,” The Canvas, May 6, 2021.
2020
Sayej, Nadja. “Greta, crude oil, and animal farming: behind a climate-conscious Armory Show,” The Guardian, March 5, 2020.
Cohen, Alina. “The 10 Best Booths at the Armory Show 2020,” Artsy, March 5, 2020.
McGrath, Katherine. “Highlights from the Armory Show,” Architectural Digest, March 6, 2020.
Osberg, Annabel. “Cynthia Daignault at Night Gallery,” Artillery, January 7,2020.
2019
Zappas, Lindsay Preston. “Cynthia Daignault at Night Gallery,” KCRW Art Insider, September 24, 2019.
Cooper, Ashton. “Critic’s Pick: Cynthia Daignault, Elegy at Night Gallery,” Artforum,November, 2019.
Dunne, Susan. “37 Georgia O’Keeffe Works Hang Next to Contemporary Artists at NBMAA,” Hartford Courant, February 26, 2019.
Jen, Alex. “The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 14, 2019.
Funderburk, Amy. “How Georgia O’Keeffe’s Themes and Style Have Flowered in Contemporary Art,” Hyperallergic, January 18, 2019.
2018
Heinrich, Will. “The Don’t Misses at Independent and NADA,” The New York Times, March 8, 2018.
Menconi, David. “At the NC Museum of Art, Georgia O’Keeffe’s influence goes beyond flowers,” The Art & Observer, October 11, 2018.
“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City,” ArtNews, September 17, 2018.
Martin, Philip. “Georgia on my mind: O’Keefe’s Influence on art world is subject of Crystal Bridges Exhibit,” Northwest Arkansas Democratic Gazette, June 17, 2018.
Neiswanger, Robbie. “Georgia O’Keefe omnipresent in ‘The Beyond’ exhibition at Crystal Bridges,” The Arkansas Gazette, May 25, 2018.
Remenchik, Jennifer. “The Many Shades and Meanings of the color Blue,” Hyperallergic, April 9, 2018.
Seven, John. “Fourteen Artists pierce the darkness in a new show at MASS MoCA,”Berkshire Eagle, March 15, 2018.
Sayej, Nadia. “Art Imitating Life: How this year’s Armory Show got Political,” March 13, 2018.
“Contemporary Painters ponder the Lure of the Dark,” Art & Object, March 2, 2018.
Younker, Emily. “New Crystal Bridges Exhibition pairs O’Keeffe with contemporary artists,” The Joplin Globe, May 25, 2018.
2017
Berfanger, Rebecca. “Two Art Exhibitions Worth a Closer Look at Herron,” Nuvo, October 6, 2017.
Smith, Roberta,. “An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words,” The New York Times, July 6, 2017.
Dodson, Ted. “Cynthia Daignault’s There I Nothing I Could Say That I Haven’t Thought Before,” Bomb Magazine, May 11, 2017.
Boas, Natasha, "Cynthia Daignault: The Pure Products of America Go Crazy at CAPITAL,” Daily Serving, April 13, 2017.
Indrisek, Scott, “Cynthia Daignault: There I Nothing I Could Say That I Haven’t Thought Before,”. Art Review, April, 13, 2017.
Sargent, Antwaun, “Gucci Mane Logic,” Vice, February, 2017.
Heinrich, Will, “Cynthia Daignault, The New Yorker, January, 2017.
Isreal, Matthew, “10 must see shows in 2017,” Artsy. January, 2017.
2016
Duncan, David, “Reviews: Cynthia Daignault, Light Atlas,” Art in America, March
Stosuy, Brandon, “Cynthia Daignault,” The Creative Independent, October 20
2015
Munzenrieder, Kyle, “Cynthia Daignault killed her own painting,” W Magainze, December 7, 2015.
Cavalli, Lauren, “Critics’ Picks: Cynthia Daignault,” Artforum, November 20, 2015.
Small, Rachel, “Cynthia Daignault: An Artist Painting America in a New Light,” Interview, November 5, 2015.
Felsenthal, Julia, “On the Road With Cynthia Daignault at Lisa Cooley Gallery,” Vogue, November 2, 2015.
Olber, Bibiana, “Reviews: Cynthia Daignault,” Artforum, November 2015: p. 309
Halle, Howard, “The top five New York art shows this week: Cynthia Daignault, ‘Light Atlas,’” Time Out New York, October 21, 2015.
2014
Daignault, Cynthia, “Cynthia Daignault,” Poetry Project, No, 241, December/January, 6-8, 25
Johnson, Ken, “The Artist Next Door: ‘Crossing Brooklyn,’ Local Talent at Brooklyn Museum,” The New York Times, October 3, 2014 C24.
Johnson, Ken. “The Artist Next Door: ‘Crossing Brooklyn,’ Local Talent at Brooklyn Museum,” The New York Times, October 3, 2014 C24.
Zuras, Matthew. “Power Grid: 29 Artists You Need to Know,” Refinery 29, July 23, 2014.
Kramer, Lola. “Eye On: Cynthia Daignault,” mb! by Mercedes-Benz, February 27, 2014.
Kramer, Lola. “Artist of the Week: Cynthia Daignault,” LVL3, January 20, 2014.
2013
Expósito, Frank, “Critics’ Picks: Cynthia Daignault,” Artforum, October 20
“The Lookout: Cynthia Daignault,” Art in America, September 27
“Goings on About Town: Cynthia Daignault,” The New Yorker, September 30, p. 8
“The Approval Matrix,” New York Magazine, September 30, p. 108
Halle, Howard, “Five Paintings Exhibits to See,” Time Out New York, September 12–18, p. 38
Peña, Arthur, “Cynthia Daignault interviewed by Arthur Peña,” ArtHaps.com, September 6
Darwin, Liza, “Artist in Residence: Cynthia Daignault,” Nylon, September 5
Valli, Marc, “Showcase: Cynthia Daignault,” Elephant, Issue #15, Summer, p. 18–23
2012
Stosuy, Brandon. “Frieze London 2012 Takes A Look Outside,” Art Critiqued, October 14, 2012.
Nelson, Karin. “The Artist is Present: Cynthia Daignault,” W Magazine, October 2012.
Nelson, Karin. “Quick Sketches: The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Selects Visual Arts Grantees,” American Artist, February 2012, p. 18–19.
2011
Wilson, Michael, Exhibition Review, Artforum, September 2011.
Landers, Sean, “Artist’s Favourites,” Spike Magazine, Fall, 2011.
2009
Loiacono, Mark, Ed. Cynthia Daignault, “Haters and the Lost Arc,” Last Exit Magazine, November 4, 2009.
Daignault, Cynthia, “Portrait of the Artist as a Building,” Last Exit Magazine, October 2, 2009.
Daignault, Cynthia, “Urban Methodology,” Last Exit Magazine, July 29, 2009.
Daignault, Cynthia, “You are not Alone,” Last Exit Magazine, July 1, 2009.
Daignault, Cynthia, “Time is on my Side,” Last Exit Magazine, May 20, 2009.
Daignault, Cynthia, “Meet the New Boss,” Last Exit Magazine, April 15, 2009.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024
Katz, Anna, et al. Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968. MOCA and DelMonico Books, 2024.
2019
Campany, David, Alexander Nemerov, and Cynthia Daignault. Light Atlas. New York: Gregory Miller and Co., 2019. Artist Monograph.
Schwabsky, Barry, Landscape Painting Now, ed. Todd Bradway. New York: D.A.P., 2019.
2017
Daignault, Cynthia, and Curran Hatleberg. Somewhere Someone. New York: Hassla Books, 2017.
Daignault. Cynthia. A-Z Volume 4. 2017. Limited Edition Artist Book
2016
Daignault, Cynthia, A-Z Volume 3, Limited edition artist book
2015
Daignault, Cynthia, A-Z,Volume 2, Limited edition Artist Book
2014
Dessanay, Marguerita and Marc Valli. A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today. London: Laurence King, 2014.
2013
Daignault, Cynthia, I love you more than one more day, Limited edition artist book
Daignault, Cynthia, A-Z Volume 1, Limited edition artist book
2012
Daignault, Cynthia, CCTV, Limited edition artist book
Slanted c/o MAGMA Brand Design, ed. Bright! Typography between Illustration and Art. Cologne: Daab Media, 2012, pp. 141, 404.
2011
Daignault, Cynthia; eds. Paul Ha, Michelle Reyes, and Cynthia Daignault. Sean Landers: Improbable History,. Zurich: JRP | Ringier, 2011.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aishti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Art Bridges at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
AWARDS
2021 Maryland State Arts Council Grant
2019 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2018 Shifting Foundation Grant
2016 Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant
2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Winner
2010 MacDowell Colony Fellow