Discipline: Visual Art

Cynthia Carlson

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
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Cynthia Carlson is a painter. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and Queens Museum in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and elsewhere. Carlson’s one-person exhibitions and installations include Essex Flowers Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Gallery Gris, Hudson, NY (2017); and "Portraits" at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2012). She is a four-time winner of the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Award and a recipient of the 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and Queens College in New York, where she is a professor emeritus

Studios

Eastman

Cynthia Carlson worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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