Cynthia Atwood (born 11-19-1952)
EDUCATION
B.F.A. Printmaking and Painting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1976
M.F.A., Visual Arts/Sculpture, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Artist in Residence/Spring Semester Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA
2009-2022 Vermont College of Fine Art MFA Program Artist Mentor
2014-2019 New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA Program Artist Mentor / Research Advisor
AWARDS
2000 The Cambridge Art Assoc., National Prize Show, Sculpture Prize selected by Carl Belz
1998 Levin/Lutz Merit Prize, Vermont College of Norwich
1997 New England Foundation For The Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
RESIDENCIES
2016 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2013 IS 183 Berkshire Artists Residency , Interlaken, MA
2005 Maryland institute College of Art - Klots Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
1996 Art OMI, International Artist’s Residency, Ghent, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Traveling Circus 2022 Kimball - Jackson Gallery at Simon's Rock College of Bard, Gt. Barrington, MA
An Alphabet of Weapons Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA 2017
An Alphabet of Weapons No 6 Depot St. Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA 2016
Notebook Pages The Little Gallery, Front St., Housatonic, MA 2012
Listening Devices, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008
Transparent Couture and Other Pleasures, The Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, 2007
Cynthia Atwood: Stitch, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, 2005
Cynthia Atwood, Columbia Green Community College, Hudson, NY, 2005
Cynthia Atwood - Sculpture, Segreto Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2001
Body Couture, William Blizzard Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, 2000
Accessories, Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA, 2000
Sculpture, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA, 1995
Cynthia Atwood, Butler Sculpture Park, Sheffield, MA, 1994
Entryways, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willamantic, CT, 1993
Hunter - Gatherer, Atwood Gallery, Worcester, MA, 1990
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
TEXT Joyce Goldstein Gallery, 19 Central Square, Chatham, NY 2023
4 For Art Gallery, 53 Church St., Lenox , MA. 2019
2 Women 4 Hands with Julia Baier Columbia Green Community College, Hudson , New York 2017
Panorama 6 Depot Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA 2015
Six From Spazi Lauren Clark Fine Art, Gt. Barrington, MA 01230
Mythologies Landmark Gallery of Fine Art, Landmark College, Putney, VT 2015
With A Grain of Salt, Citizen’s Residency with Beck Balken at IS 183,Art School of the Berkshires, Interlaken, MA 2013
Rites of Passage, Whiney Arts Center, Wendell St., Pittsfield , MA 2013
Friends, Columbia Green Community College, Hudson, NY, 2010
Merhaba,Baghdad Qasim Sabti Gallery, Baghdad, Iraq 2008
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Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to The Scarlet Letter,
Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, 2008
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 2004
“Metamorphosis” A Journey of Dolls, The Drawing Room, Portland, ME, July 2007
Obsession II, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA, 2005
Painting & Sculpture, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA, 2004
Dinnerware Biennial Exhibition, Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2003
unfoldingobject:critical selections. 1, Miranda Fine Arts & Henaine Fine Art, Port Chester, NY, 2003
Terrors and Wonders, Monsters In Contemporary Art, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2001-2002
Women, Art, and Ideas: 360, B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH, 2001
MFA Thesis Exhibition, T. Wood Gallery, Vermont College of Norwich, Montpelier, VT, 1999
No England No Amsterdam III, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 1998
New England Foundation for The Arts 1997 Sculpture Fellowship Recipients, Chapel Gallery, West Newton, MA, 1998
Sculpture in the Garden, Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA, 1998
Artists of The Berkshires, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY, 1997
Nature of the Sacred, Nacul Gallery, Amherst, MA, 1996
Voice to Voice, with Dean Pulver, RICA Gallery, Housatonic, MA, 1995
Wood, Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, 1995 (curated by Warner Freidman)
Sculpture at Naumkeag, The Trustees of The Preservation, Stockbridge, MA, 1994
Cynthia Atwood and Lisa Bartle, Welles Gallery at the Lenox Library, Lenox, MA, 1992
New England New Talent, Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA., 1992
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, 1991
Cynthia Atwood and Dawn Southworth, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 1991
Religious Icons, Gallery 69A, Worcester, MA, 1987
New Art In The West, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1986
Designed To Wear, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, 1986
California Mystique, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1983