CYNTHIA CAMLIN

EDUCATION

2000 MFA, Painting and Drawing, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1992 – 1996 Post-Baccalaureate courses in Drawing, Painting, Design, Art History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1988 MA, Religion and Literature, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1982 BA, English with Honors, Studio Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Glacial Speed
2010 Bellevue College Gallery, Bellevue, WA
2009 Monarch Studio, Seattle, WA
2008 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Cynthia Camlin: Extremities & Marianne Green: Silence and Sound
2007 Delia Brown Taylor Gallery, West Virginia State University, Charleston, West Virginia
2005 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Cynthia Camlin and Ann Matlock
2003 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Cynthia Camlin and Irene Roderick

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, curated by Sarah Clark-Langager, Director, Western Gallery, and John Olbrantz, Director, Halle Ford Museum, Willamette University (traveling exhibition)
2010 DBerman Gallery, Austin, TX, Chill
2009 Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, Return to Departure, juried by Philip Govedare, Cable Griffith, and Helen O’Toole
2008 University of Mary Washington Galleries, Frediscksburg, Virginia, Mid-Atlantic New Painting, curated by John Ravenal, Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2007 Birke Gallery, Mashall University, Huntington, West Virginia, Land Matters, curated by Emily Ritchie
2007 City Hall, Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia Faculty Exhibition
2007 Parkersburg Art Center, West Virginia, West Virginia Juried Exhibition
2007 Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida, Parallax Views, curated by Mark Ormond
2007 Allegheny College Galleries, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 8-Hour Drawings, curated by Robert Raczka
2007 The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, d berman gallery: Group Show
2006 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Heat
2005 Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carbon Nation: New Work from West Virginia University Art Faculty
2005 Crossley Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida, 2 x 2
2004 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories, Curated by Anne Allen
2004 Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida, 4 x 4
2004 Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, 5x7xX
2003 Kipp Gallery, Indiana University, Indiana, Pennsylvania, In Through the Outline: Drawings by Eight Artists Living and Working in Texas
2003 Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas, Red Hot Red Dot
2003 Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, 5x7xX
2003 University of Texas Art/Design Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, To Tell the Difference
2002 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 22 to Watch: New Art in Austin
2002 University of Texas Art/Design Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, Groundwork
2002 Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas, Solemates
2002 Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas, Red Hot Red Dot
2002 Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, 5x7xX
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Group Show
2001 Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas, Red Hot Red Dot
2001 Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, 5x7xX
2000 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Drawing
2000 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 62nd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition
2000 Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas, New Works
2000 Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Featured Artist
2000 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, MFA Thesis Exhibition
2000 Marsh Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Millenial Biennial: National Works on Paper
2000 Winter Street Art Center, Houston, Texas, Visible Traces
1999 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 61st Annual Art Faculty Exhibition
1999 ACA Gallery, Austin, Texas, Dissolving Language
1999 Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas, New Texas Talent

GRANTS/AWARDS

2010 Summer Faculty Research Grant, Western Washington University
2009 Summer Faculty Research Grant, Western Washington University
2009 Juror’s Award, Third Place, Return to Departure, Kirkland Art Center
2007 West Virginia Individual Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2006 Residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Supported by Grant from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
2005 Faculty Travel Grant, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University
2005 Faculty Development Grant, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
2003 Nominated Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award
2002 Nominated Best Female Visual Artist, Austin Critics Table
1999 Juror’s Award, Dissolving Language, ACA Gallery, Austin, Texas
1997 –2000 Marshall F. Wells Fellowship, M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship, Grace Hill Milam Endowed Presidential Scholarship,
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1984 – 1986 Governor’s Fellowship, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1981 – 1982 Benenson Prize in the Arts, Anne Flexner Prize in Creative Writing, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008 – Present, Assistant Professor of Painting, Department of Art, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
2005 – 2008 Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
2004 – 2005 Instructor, Pre-College Program & Summer Teacher Workshop, Visiting Artist, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Courses in Foundations Drawing, Color, 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Design; Mentor to Fine Arts Seniors; Workshops in Painting, Drawing, Watercolor
2001 – 2004 Director, Creative Research Laboratory, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Founding faculty director for center for contemporary art and design, providing a year-round schedule of exhibitions and community programming by students and faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Produced thirty-five exhibitions in three years with related educational and community outreach programs at an off-campus gallery.
2001 – 2004 Lecturer in beginning, intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses in drawing, Department of Art and Art History,
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
2000 – 2004 Instructor, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria: Courses in Drawing, Painting, Watercolor
2001 Consultant, Gallery 106, Austin, Texas
Organized exhibitions, artist exchanges and artist print projects with contemporary Cuban artists for nonprofit gallery connected with the U.S. Latin American Aid Foundation; organized 2001 Havana Print Biennial in U.S.
2001 Instructor, City of Austin Cultural Contracts, Project Hope: Mural Project
1997 – 2000 Assistant Instructor, Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Taught foundation-level drawing courses; assisted in drawing, lithography, video, and ceramics courses.
1998 – 1999 Freelance Writer, Office of the Vice President for Development, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1993 – 1997 Project Associate, Office of New Haven Affairs, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Directed communications and special projects for Yale University’s New Haven Initiative.
1991 – 1993 Assistant Director of Communications, Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Managed marketing and publications for $1.5 billion Yale Campaign.
1989 – 1991 Marketing Director, City Spirit Artists, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut
Managed fundraising for non-profit arts and human services organization.
1984 – 1986 Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 “Chill,” The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 29 No. 19, January 8, Wayne Alan Brenner.
2009 Cynthia Camlin: Extremities, exhibition catalog, Monarch Studio
2009 “Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across the Disciplines (In No Particular Order),” Wayne Alan Brenner, The Austin Chronicle, January 2
2008 “’Cynthia Camlin: Extremities’; ‘Marianne Green: Silence and Sound’,” Wayne Alan Brenner, The Austin Chronicle, August 22
2007 “Exhibit Exposes Environmental Impact,” The Parthenon, 27 September
2007 “Cynthia Camlin on the Art of Open Monads,” The Charleston Gazette, The Gazz, 16 April
2006 “HEAT,” Austin Chronicle, Vol. 25 No. 45, July 7, Nikki Moore
2006 “Heat at d berman,” Cantanker Magazine, June 19, Hillary McMahan
2005 “Cynthia Camlin”, The Austin Chronicle, 17 June
2004 “Arlington Highlights Texas Painters,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 30
2004 “Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories,” Dallas Morning News, October
2003 “Cynthia Camlin/Irene Roderick at d berman gallery,” ArtLies, February
2003 “Camlin/Roderick at d berman gallery,” Voices of Art, vol. 11, issue 3, Fall
2003 “2 Still Worth Watching,” Austin-American Statesman, October 5
2002 “UT Artists to Watch,” State of the Arts, UT College of Fine Arts, issue 22, Fall
2002 “22 to Watch: New Art in Austin,” Austin Chronicle, May 10
2002 “Shades of the Future,” Austin-American Statesman, April 11
2002 “22 to Watch: New Art in Austin,” Austin Monthly, April
2000 “Drawing Opens Doors to Both Strange and Subversive,”Austin American-Statesman, December 2
1999 “Risk-Takers Emerge from Overstuffed UT Exhibit,” Austin American- Statesman, November 11

CRITICAL WRITINGS

2006 “Ruth Stanford,” Art Papers, v. 30, no. 6
2005 “Messages and Communications,” Art Papers, v. 30, no. 2

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2005 Gallery talk, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
2005 Juror, “Best of CORE,” First Year Student Exhibition, Ringling School of Art and Design, April
2004 Artist Print Project, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, July-August
Featured Artist, Art Ball Live Auction, Austin Museum of Art, January
Juror, “Ahead of Their Time,” A.P. student exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, February
2003 Visiting artist workshop, “Sketching in the Galleries”, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, November 19
Visiting artist (slide lecture, portfolio reviews), Houston Community College, Houston, Texas, November 5
Panel moderator, “Drawing Across Disciplines,” Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, October 29
Gallery talks, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, October 4, 23
2002 Gallery talk, “22 to Watch,” Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, May 11