Cynthia Hartling

After many years in New York, Cynthia now lives in New Mexico, inspired by its slower pace, light, high desert plains, temperate weather, mountains and indigenous cultures. Recent exhibitions and projects include SITE Santa Fe, silver linings, AXLE CONTEMPORARY, Be Counted-Vote, Santa Fe, NM; Jason McCoy Gallery, Drawing Challenge IX and PIEROGI, POWER Ts 2020, New York, NY; and Parlor, Postcards from the Edge, COVID-19 project, Los Angeles, CA.

Cynthia’s work is in numerous private collections and has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including the Brattleboro Museum, Wave Hill, Brooklyn Museum, Berkshire Museum, PIEROGI, N3 Project Space, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Centotto, Sideshow, and Beverley Knowles Fine Art. She is the recipient of a Milton and Sally Michel Avery endowed residency for visual arts at Yaddo; a Carlo Cego Residency Fellowship at BAU Institute; a Barbara White endowed painting award at Vermont Studio Center; and visual art residencies at Fundación Valparaiso; Jentel; Art Farm; Brush Creek Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Reviews of her work have appeared in billboard, Delicious Line Inc., After Vasari, The Brooklyn Rail, artcritical.com, and NY Arts Magazine. She received a BFA from Cooper Union and also studied at the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Urbino, Italy and SUNY, New Paltz.