CV

Cynthia Norton

Education

1995 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Time Arts

1992 BFA, University of Kentucky

2004 MAT in Teaching, Art Education, University of Louisville

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Farcical, Swanson Contemporary, Louisville, KY

2012 Freedom Rings Placed Within, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2010 Repetition de Amores, The Alley Theatre. Louisville, KY

Athens Dove, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY

2008 Apple Suckling Tree, McLeod Residence, Seattle, WA

Double-Agent Workhorse, Country Club Gallery; Cincinnati, OH.

2007 Life Cycle, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY

2004 Dancing Squared, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY

1994 Bun In The Oven, Gallery 2, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1992 Tart Art, Kaufman Beauty School, Lexington, KY

Cicatrix, Barnhart Gallery, Lexington, KY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Positive – Negative, Group Show, West Tennessee State.

SPIN – Turning Records into Art, KMAC Louisville, Kentucky.

Hadley Creatives 15, KMAC Louisville, Kentucky.

2016 Artist:Body, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky.

2015 Cultural Sustainability, Held from Beneath Carnegie Center for

Art and History, New Albany, Indiana.

2013 By The Numbers, Group Exhibition LVAA Louisville, KY.

Cultivation, Group Exhibition, Swanson Contemporary, Louisville, KY.

2012 Contraption, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE.

2011 Young Country, Quonset Hut Louisville, KY and University of the

Arts Philadelphia, PA.

Channel Z, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY.

2010 Diverse Universe - European Performance Art Tour with NonGrata.

2009 KY Jelly, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY.

2008 The Old, Weird America, CAM Houston, TX, traveling to

DecCordova Museum Boston, MA and Frye Museum Seattle, WA

2005 Nowhere, Styrian Autumnal Festival, Graz, Austria. Eugen Lendel Gallery

Three Person Exhibition, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria

Nowhere, Contemporary Art Center, Louisville, KY

Awards

2019 Great Meadows Foundation, Professional Development Grant (Performa ,NYC 2019)

2018 Great Meadows Foundation, Professional Development Grant (Mudhouse Residency Crete, Greece)

2017 Great Meadows Foundation, Professional Development Grant (Documenta 14 Kassel, Germany)

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Grant(solo exhibition)

2012 Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Grant(solo exhibition, PAFA)

2003 BPW Business Professional Women, Professional Development

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Grant(solo exhibition)

1998 CAAP Grant, Illinois Arts Council

1998 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council

1996 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship

1994-1995 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL

1993-1995 Graduate Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1992 NCAA Art Award, The University of Kentucky