BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Grow is a visual artist whose work explores the interstices between art and language. Influenced by her studies in literature, she works alternately between abstract paintings and text-based works on paper. She harnesses the same sources of inspiration for both – language and memory – and achieves an overall aesthetic signature marked by strong senses of mood, poetry, and atmosphere.
Cynthia studied painting at Accademia d’Arte in Florence, Italy and has completed projects at residencies throughout Italy and Spain as well as seminars at New York Studio School, National Academy School of Fine Art, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In addition to studio training, she completed a Graduate program at Christie’s Education New York and holds a Master’s degree in Modern Arts & Literature.
She has exhibited works in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami as well as galleries and cultural centers in Europe including Florence, Venice, Rome, Madrid, and Barcelona. Her work has been featured in prizes, publications, and exhibitions across both continents.
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EDUCATION
Christie’s Education, New York, NY, Graduate Certificate, Modern Art, Connoisseurship & Art Market
Accademia d’Arte, Florence, Italy, Diploma, Classic & Contemporary Painting
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Master of Arts, Modern Art & Literature
STUDIO SEMINARS | WORKSHOPS
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture, New York, NY
Palazzo Spinelli Istituto per l’Arte e il Restauro, Florence, Italy
National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS | GRANTS | RESIDENCIES
Arte Laguna Prize, First Selection by International Jury, 16th Edition, Venice, Italy, 2021-2022
Dialogs 2020 Contemporary Connections, Atelier97 Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy, Finalist 2021
YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art Prize, Milan, Italy 20/21, Finalist
ITSLIQUID International 7th Edition,Venice, Italy, Finalist – Honorable Mention 2020
Create! Magazine, Issue XX – Honorable Mention 2020
redPoint Artist Residency, Barcelona, Spain, Residency & Project 2019
Barcelona International Gallery Awards Finalist Winner 2018
Jiwar Creation & Society, Barcelona, Spain, Residency & Project 2018
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity Grant 2016
Jiwar Creation & Society, Barcelona, Spain, Residency & Project 2016
Untitled BCN, Barcelona, Spain, Residency & Project 2015
Centre d’Arte La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Spain, Fellowship and Production Grant, Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura 2014
Linea de Costa Artist in Residence, Cádiz, Spain, Production Grant 2014
33 Officina Creativa, Toffia, Italy, Residency Grant 2013
Can Serrat International Art Center, Barcelona, Spain, Fellowship 2010, 2011, 2014
Arte | Vita, Florence, Venice, & Lucca, Italy 2000
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Correspondència Amorosa,” Jiwar Creation & Society, Barcelona, Spain 2016
“Tardor,” Centre d’ Arte La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Spain 2014
“Memòria,” Can Serrat International Art Center, Barcelona, Spain 2014
“Vespre,” Galeria El Bruc, El Bruc, Spain 2011
“Fantasmas de Cosas Recordades,” Can Serrat International Art Center, Barcelona, Spain 2010
“Night Sea,” Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC 2009
“Letters from the Surface of the Earth,” Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC 2008
“Recording the Invisible,” West Village, Durham, NC 2006
PROJECTS | SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ART FAIRS
Superfine Savannah Art Fair, The Clyde, Savannah, GA 2023
“Act II,” Galeria Azur Miami, Miami, FL 2023
“The Unexpected,” Monat Gallery Madrid, Madrid, Spain 2023
Superfine Miami Art Fair, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL 2023
Innsbruck International Contemporary Art Fair (Monat Gallery Madrid Booth), Innsbruck, Austria 2022
Superfine LA Art Fair, DTLA Magic Box, Los Angeles, CA 2022
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2022
Artbox.Project Palma 1.0, Casa del Arte, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2022
Swiss Art Expo | Artbox.Project Zurich 4.0, Zurich, Switzerland 2022
Artbox.Project Venezia 1.0 | Tana Art Space, Venice, Italy 2022
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX 2022
Superfine Miami Art Fair,1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 2022
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2021
The Other Art Fair | Saatchi Art Global Virtual Edition, autumn 2021
Vins Petxina – Catalan Wines, Manresa, Catalunya, Spain, Vi Brisat Wine Label Design, 2021
Swiss Art Expo | Artbox.Project Zurich 3.0, Zurich, Switzerland 2021
Summer II Contemporary Collective, Envision Arts, Dallas, TX 2021
The Other Art Fair | Saatchi Art Global Virtual Edition, spring 2021
Artbox.Project Barcelona 1.0, Art Metropole, Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Spain 2021
Dialogs 2020 Contemporary Connection, Atelier97 Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy 2021
Artbox.Project World 1.0, Zurich, Switzerland 2021
Swiss Art Expo | Artbox.Project Zurich 2.0, Zurich, Switzerland 2020
Eduardo Lira Gallery | Artbox.Projects 2.0 Miami, Wynwood Arts District, Miami FL 2019
Satura Palazzo Stella Associazione Culturale, Columbus Day Exhibition, Genoa, Italy 2019
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX 2019
Swiss Art Expo | Artbox.Project, Zurich, Switzerland 2019
Espronceda Center for Art & Culture – Art Lover Ground, Barcelona, Spain 2019
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2019
LA Art Show, Artifact Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019
Spectrum Miami, Mana Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL 2018
CAGE BCN Gallery BIG Awards Collective Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain 2018
Monaco Yacht Show, Artifact Gallery Principality of Monaco, 2018
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2018
Architectural Digest Design Show, Artifact Gallery, New York, NY 2018
Artbox.Project New York 1.0, Stricoff Gallery, Armory Art Week, New York, NY 2018
Saatchi Art | The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2017
Fira Internacional d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 2016
“Dos,“ Untitled BCN, Barcelona, Spain 2015
“Tu | Jo,“ World Poetry Day, Institution of Catalan Letters, Barcelona, Spain 2015
“Going Home,” Galerija Mandžić, Tuzla, Bosnia 2013
“Ora | Noi,” – Ocupacción Poética, Centro Storico, Rome, Italy 2013
Open Studios Week Madrid, Madrid, Spain 2012
STATEMENT
My work is informed by literature, poetry, philosophy, film, and of course, my own experiences. I explore the interstices between art and language, engaging themes of memory, desire, and complex interpersonal relationships. I prefer to play on the idea of ambiguity. The liminal, the spaces in between. Of the absent or hidden, the imperceptible, the unspoken – the things felt but unseen. Perhaps a complicit glance, a brief and silent accord. Moments that transcend time, space, language, and culture. Memory. And what remains.
Presence of Absence. Mystery. Silence. In both art and in life, I find what is hidden or obscured more compelling than the overt. I believe that hiding part of the world is inherent to the act of showing the world. For this reason, I prefer to leave ambiguity in my work, regardless the medium. Similar to the poet’s sense of reduced language to communicate, creating mood and meaning where there may be no obvious story. Posing a question minus the answer, I offer the viewer to become an important determiner of meaning; allowing space to experience his own feeling, to arrive at his own conclusion.
In the end, ambiguity is always the theme I seem to return to. Searching for something imperceptible. For something haunting in the work, perhaps in a place, maybe in the other, but mostly, I imagine, in myself.
