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Cindy
Loehr is now writing as Cynthia Gray
follow: @todaysmessage / email contact
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick
R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2009
The
Advisor part of In
Practice
with Michael Ashkin, Michael Blum, David Dixon, Simone Leigh, and Virginia
Overton, Sculpture
Center, New York,
curated by Sarina Basta.
2008
The Puppet Show, ICA, Pennsylvania
- traveled
to the Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (May 24 - August 9, 2008);
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (September 5 – November
23, 2008); the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (January 17 –
April 12, 2009) and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (May 16 –
September 13, 2009)
Twilight
Knowledge, moniquemeloche, Chicago (solo exhibition)
Learning
by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
curated
by Alison de Lima Greene
2007
Place of the Transcommon, Inova, University
of Wisconsin Milwaukee, curated by Nicholas Frank
The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, Richmond
Center for the Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
curated by James Yood
2006
Fuel
for Constant Light, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo (solo exhibition)
2005
Rough
Magic and Dark Lullaby: Cindy Loehr and Rachel Lowther, Atlanta Contemporary,
curated by Helena Reckitt
Darker Than You, Monique Meloche Gallery at the Preview Berlin
Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Core Artist Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston
2004
Bluebird Burden, moniquemeloche, Chicago
Amalgama, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Paola Morsiani
& Paula Newton
Public Love Letter Reading, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston as part of Amalgama
Project Row Houses, 24 Hour Arts and Music Festival, Houston
Apartment Series: 2, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, curated
by Jeremy Boyle
Core Residency Exhibiton, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston
2003
Subject Index, (solo project in collaboration with Michael Banicki, Peter Barrickman,
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Nicholas Frank, Gaylen Gerber, Brandon
Larson and Helen Mirra), The Pond Project, Chicago
Ornithology, Monique Meloche, Chicago
Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago
2002
Snowman Stories, (solo project) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by
Sylvia Chivaratanond
Waiting Room/Session Room, (solo project in collaboration with Nicola Axford,
Joe Baldwin, Jeremy Boyle & Annabelle Clarke), Deluxe Projects, Chicago
Plat and Form: The Portable Hermetic Gallery Exhibition, Foster
Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, curated by Nicholas Frank
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, curated
by Adam Brooks and Cory Postiglione
Meet Me in St. Louie, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery St. Louis, MO
2001
Public Address, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago (thesis project)
Valentine's Project, love form letters sent
through the mail (solo project)
The Library Project, Temporary Services, Chicago, curated by Marc
Fischer
2000
Nap Room and Other Projects, suitable,
Chicago (solo project)
More Comfortable and Better, Dogmatic, Chicago, curated by Pedro
Velez
Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Ongoing
Projects
don't give up magnets, given away by the artist and supporting distributors
(2000 - )
the love letter collection an ongoing collection of anonymous love letters (2001 - )
Selected Bibliography
2009
Annette Leddy. "The Puppet Show." X-TRA, vol.
11 no. 3. Spring 2009.
Kelly Klaasmeyer.
"Puppet Masters: Things get creepy at CAMH." Houston Press,
Feb 24.
2008
Alan
Artner. Review: Cindy Loehr. Chicago Tribune. Feb 29.
Kristin
Gehrig, “On The Scene: Higher, higher!.” Chicago Journal, Vol.
8, No. 12, March 6.
Review: “Cindy Loehr: Twilight Knowledge.” Newcity, Feb 21.
The Puppet Show Catalog, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia with essays by curators Carin Kuoni, Ingrid
Schaffner and contributing authors.
The Core Program 25th Anniversary catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Altoids Award Catalog, New Museum, New York.
2007
Nicholas
Frank. "Where Heaven and Earth Meet." University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee. catalog essay for Place of the Transcommon.
2006
BBC Radio Cafe, Interview on the Love Letter Collection,
February 14.
Lisa Kurzner, "Cindy Loehr and Rachel Lowther." Art Papers,
March/April 2006, page 52.
The Love Letter Collection, Japanese/English book with audio cd,
Cindy Loehr and Akie Baba, Kokusaigogakusha Publishing Co., Tokyo
2005
Jerry Cullum, "Visual
Arts: Sorcery, revival and war at hand," Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
December 11.
2004
Mary Gustaitis Beyer, "Bluebird Burden."
panel-house.com, (March).
Fred Camper, "Critic's Choice," Chicago Reader, (February 27): section 2 page 23.
David Fahl, "These Walls Can Talk." Houston Press, (April 14).
Michelle Grabner, "Cindy Loehr."
artUS, issue
3 (June-August) pp.18-19.
Margaret Hawkins,"Bluebirds' Unusual Role Adds Poignancy to
'Burden" Chicago Sun Times, (March
5): page 23.
_____, "Less is Lots Better at Art Chicago Show." Chicago Sun Times, (May
10): Arts Section.
_____, "2004 All Comes Down to Personal Enjoyment" (Top Ten List), Chicago
Sun Times, December 26, 2004.
Kristen Brooke Schleifer, "Voicemail." Mouth to Mouth,
Spring/Summer: pp.45-46.
Michael Workman, "Flights of Family." New City
Chicago, (February 21): page 16.
2003
Fred Camper, Ah, Wilderness, Chicago Reader, (Aug 8): page 24.
Jenn Shreve, Cyrano at Your Lovelorn Service, Wired.com, (May).
Michael Workman, Virtually Art, NewCityChicago.(June 18).
2002
Nick Frank, "Waiting Room/Session Room." Art Papers, (Jul/Aug):
page 45.
Damien Noll, "The Sublimity of Concentration," Chicago Journal,
(March 2): page 45.
Lori Waxman, "Participatory Populism," New Art Examiner, (Mar/Apr):
page 56.
Ginger Wolfe, "Snowman Stories" Bridge Magazine (October).
2001
Fred Camper, "Home is Where the Art Is", Chicago Social, (Jan/Feb):
page 99.
Julia Marsh, "FGA is More Comfortable and Better at Dogmatic,"
New Art Examiner, vol. 28 no. 8/9 (May/June): page 85.
2000
Victor M. Cassidy, "Prarie Smoke," Artnet.com, (Summer)
Pedro Velez, "Cindy Loehr at Suitable," Ten by Ten, vol. 1 no.2
(January): page 47.
Public Collections
Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Bluebird
Burden
Awards
2003-2005 Core
Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Presentations
2009
TICA
visiting artist, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008
Artist's talk and graduate critiques, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
2005
We Are You, Lecture on work, Emory University, Atlanta
2004
Amalgama gallery talk, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Artist's talk, Committee on the Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Artist's talk, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
2003
Gallery talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Education
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
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