Cynthia Ona Innis is a visual artist, currently living and working in Berkeley, California. Innis received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her mixed media paintings are included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the collection of the U.S. State Department Art in Embassies, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Among awards she has received are two James D. Phelan Awards, one for printmaking and another for painting, a MacDowell Fellowship, a Kala Fellowship and residency, and a 2014 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. Innis has been a visiting art professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and the Maine College of Art. With representation in Los Angeles at the Walter Maciel Gallery and in Berkeley with Traywick Contemporary, Innis exhibits throughout the United States as well as internationally.
Cynthia Innis
Studios
Firth
Cynthia Innis worked in the Firth studio.
Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…