CYNTHIA LAHTI
Gallery Representation: James Fuentes Gallery
EDUCATION
1985 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Illustration Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
RESIDENCIES & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Over 50 Artwork included in the feature length film Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt
2022 Visiting Artist, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah
2021 Yucca Valley Material Lab, 2 week casting glass residency, Yucca Valley California
2021 Iris Project, 1 week residency, Venice California
2017 Ash Street Project Summer Session Residency, 2 weeks, Portland Oregon
2016 Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology Residency, 4 months, Otis Oregon
2016 Leland Iron Works Residency, 1 month, Oregon City, Oregon
2016 Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary Alberta, Canada
2012 Residency, Zentrum für Keramik, 3 months, Berlin, Germany
2012 Ford Family Foundation Caldera Artist in Residence Prize.
2011 Selected for studio conversation with curator and critic George Baker as part of the
The Ford Family Foundation Curators and Critics Tour
2011 Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Art Department, Garden City, NY
2007 Residency, Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
Senior Residency in Ceramics, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Little Storms, James Fuentes Gallery, New York City
2019 Ship Ahoy, CEI Artworks Gallery, Corvallis OR
2017 Stuffed, Ditch Projects, Springfield Oregon
2017 Haunt, Imogen Gallery, Astoria OR
2016 New works, Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR
2015 Battle, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2013 Elsewhere, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Taivassolo Paintings, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR
2012 Berlin Works - Ausstellung von Cynthia Lahti, Zentrum für Keramik, Berlin, Germany
2011 NURSE, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2009 Smile, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2007 Daughter, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2005 New Found Land, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2004 A Secret History, Hauser Memorial Library, Reed College, Portland, OR
2002 Sculpture and Drawings, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 New Works, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
2017 Doom Town, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland Oregon
2017 Conspire, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland Oregon
2017 The Edge-NCECA, T-Project, Portland OR
2016 Symptomatic, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA, two person exhibition with Harriet Sanderson
2016 Artwork Northwest, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg Or, Best of Show prize
2012 Portland2012 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, OR/Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2011 Ceramics Now Exhibition, The Paint brush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2010 Forget Me Not, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial 2010, juried exhibition, Bellevue, WA
AWARDS
2018 Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2017 Individual Support Grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York
2015 Bonnie Bronson Fellow, Oregon Community Foundation
2013 Hallie Ford Fellow, Ford Family Foundation
2012 Career Opportunity Grant for Artists, Oregon Arts Commission, Halle Ford Foundation
2010 Finalist, Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland, OR
2009 Nominee, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking,
Photography, Video, and Craft Media.
2008 Career Opportunity Grant for Artists, Oregon Arts Commission
2006 Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
INSTALLATIONS
2017 Child Trees, Shirin-Yoku Art Hike, Astoria, Or
2004 A Secret History, Reed College Library Cases, Portland, OR
1998 Portland Building Installation Space, Portland, OR, Diorama, (a site-specific installation containing drawn and sculpted elements)
1994 Heads, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Dresses, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Castro, Jan Garden “Cynthia Lahti” Sculpture Magazine, December 20, 2023
2023 Lakin, Max , “Cynthia Lahti” New York Times, December 13 2023
2020 Into the Air, publication of poet Paul Mauzier response to Cynthia Lahti’s Sculpture, Oregon Arts Com.
2019 Murze, Issue #5, Collage artworks selected for publication in magazine
2014 Baer, April, “Nov. 8, 2014: Art From Short Stories”, State or Wonder, Oregon Public Radio, November 8, 2014
2012 Vaeth, Sarah, “Portland2012 at Disjecta Portland,” ARTWRIT, March 2012
2011 “Cynthia Lahti,” Plazm, no. 30, 2011.
Hesa Inprint, issue #7, August 2011.
“Cynthia Lahti,” Ceramics Now Magazine, March 2011.
Kangas, Matthew, “Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown,” Ceramics Monthly, April 2011.
2007 Raymond, Jon, “Cynthia Lahti: PDX Contemporary,” Artforum, September 2007.
COMMISSIONS
2008 SNOW: an interactive, site-specific installation, Portland, OR
2004 Interstate Max Public Art, TriMet, Portland OR; drawing reproduced in enamel on steel
2003 Intersection, residency to create artwork about life in five fire stations in Portland, OR
2002 The Drawing Center, New York, NY; drawings accepted into Registry
1998 Way In: An Exhibition of Glass Doors, The Bullseye Connection, Portland, OR
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Columbia University Library
University of California Santa Barbara Library
Bowes Art and Architecture Library, Stanford University Library
Portland Art Museum, Portland Or
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Reed College, Portland, OR
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Lumber Room, Portland, OR
King County Public Art Collection, Harborview Medical Center Collection, Seattle, WA
Oregon Health Sciences, Portland, OR
Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus, Portland, OR