BORN
1970, Miami, FL
Lives and works in Louisville, KY

EDUCATION
2004 MA in Teaching, Art Education, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1995 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Time Arts, Chicago, IL
1992 BFA, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008

• “Cynthia Norton: Double Agent Workhorse”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “Apple Suckling Tree”, McLeod Residence, Seattle, WA

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009

• “Contents Under Pressure: Bottled in Louisville”, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
• “Ky Jelly”, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville,KY
• “Old, Weird America”, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (traveling & catalogue)

2008

• “Cynthia Norton, Queen of Cups” NADA Stage, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (performance)
• The Gallery at Actors, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• “Old, Weird America”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (traveling & catalogue)
• “Address and Redress”, Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington, KY

2007

• Depauw Biennial, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN

2006

• “Containment”, The Present Tense, Performance Festival, Boston, MA
• “AMERICA, America, America”, SoToDo Performance Congress, Sacramento, CA
• Three Person Show, Steinek Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2005

• “Nowhere”, Eugen Lendl Gallery; Graz, Austria
• “Homegrown Southeast”, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
• “Pulidora (Polishing Machine)”, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY

2004

• “ENID Women Sculptors”, Sullivan University, Louisville, KY
• “Appalshop”, Art and Democracy, Whitesburg, KY
• “Refuse”, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
• Adorno Studio, Louisville, KY
• “Time Lapse”, Tonic, New York, NY
  

2003

• “Anti-Ques”, Artswatch, Louisville, KY
• “M.A.I.S., Paradise Project, (Art Bunker) Berlin, Germany
• Gallery SoToDo, Open Space, Berlin, Germany
• “Recital for Spirit Relativity- Ether”, Homeless Coalition, KY Center for the Arts

2002

• “New Artist, New Work, New Name”, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY

1998

• “Eleven, Eleven”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
• “Bug of Confusion”, The Peoples Republic of Delicious Foods, Chicago, IL
• “DisContent”, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Gallery SoToDo, 2nd Performance Festival, Berlin, Germany

1995

• “Rolywholyover”, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
• “Ephemeris Time”, Gallery 2, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1993

• “Opening Pandora’s Box”, Gallery 2, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

COLLECTIONS

• 21C Museum Hotel,
• Steve Wilson and Lauralee Brown
• Virginia Speed
• Pat Stallard
• David Kern
• Julien Robson
• Kentucky Foundation for Women
• Chris Haaga
• Larry and Ladonna Shapin

FUNDING/ AWARDS
2007

• The Kentucky Foundation for Women

2006

• Steve Wilson and Lauralee Brown, 21C

2005

• The Kentucky Foundation for Women

2004

• The Kentucky Foundation for Women

2003

• Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Development Grant
• Kentucky Foundation for Women, Enrichment Grant

2003-2004

• Marie Erma Fust Fund Scholarship

1998

• CAAP Grant, Illinois Arts Council
• Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council

1996

• Illinois Arts Council Fellowship

1994-1995

• Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL

1992

• NCAA, The University of Kentucky

PRESS/ REVIEWS
2008

• Courier-Journal, Local artists in Houston exhibit; Lincoln art encouraged, May 24, 2008.
  Nichols, Travis. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, If you’re still in party mode, join the crowd: the night scene’s fired up, January 3, 2008.
• Farr, Sheila. The Seattle Times, First- rate ingenuity on Second Avenue, January 25, 2008.

2007

• Courier-Journal, Ninnie and Nico Triumph; February 4, 2007.

2006

• Big Red and Shiny, The Present Tense @ Midway Studios by Mark Snyder, Boston, MA, issue number 44, 2006. Pitch Magazine, Nowhere, by Ann Marie Gardner and Jay Jordan, pages 13-16: vol. 01 Spring 2006.

2005

• Angelo, Spring 2005, Kinetic Sculpture, by Kyle Elzy, page 25.
• Art Papers, Winston-Salem review, by Max Halperen, Nov./Dec. 2005, pages 50-51.
• Tip Berlin Magazine, Nr. 13/98, Kulturbrauerei, page 144.

1995

• The Philadelphia Weekly, Musical Objects/Sculptural Sound, by Gerard Brown, July 15, 1995.
• Art Papers, Ninnie/Cotton Candy Country, by Sara Vowell, Vol. 19, July/August 1995.
• F Newsmagazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Viewing Art: By The Yard, by Jason Greenberg, May 1995.

1994

• F Newsmagazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Techno Junk, by Devorah Heitner, February, 1994.

1993

• F Newsmagazine, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Opening Pandora’s Box: Novelty Exposed, by Devorah Heitner, February 1993.

MEDIA
2005

• People Doing Strange Things With Electricity II, COCA, Seattle, WA; Compact Disk Compilation, Comfort Stand Recordings.

1997

• Song “The Star” written by Sherri McGee and recorded by Cynthia Norton in the original score for Temporary Girl, a feature length film by Lisa Kotin and Johnny White.
• Mentioned in Invisible Republic, Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, written by Greil Marcus, Henry Holt and Co., 1997. Republished as The Old, Weird America: Picador, 1997.
• Wild Chicago: Talk Show with Johnny White, Channel 11, WTTW, premiere January 1997.