CYNTHIA ROBERTS
representation: The Bromfield Gallery, Boston
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY MFA in Painting
Brown University, Providence, RI BA
Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa
English Literature with Honors in Creative Writing
ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK
Alliance Francais, Le Havre, France: French language study (3 months)
Frank Costantino Watercolor Workshop, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA
Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA: Online Portfolio
Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY, NY: Intro to French Language
The School of Visual Arts, NY, NY: Quark Xpress for Desktop Publishing
The Art Students League of NY, NY, NY: Anatomical Drawing, Abstract Painting
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
New Paintings, The Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, June 2024
Mutualism, new paintings, The Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, November 2022
The Akumal Papers, Spencer Presentation Gallery, The Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts
Beverly, MA, September 2020–January 2021
Oceans Connect Us: Cynthia Roberts and Fran Roberts, The Jeannie Tengelson Gallery, ALLI, Dix Hills, New York, October 2019
Armations Anthropocene: The Suits, one day pop-up exhibition & performance, Triangle Arts, Governors Island, NY, Aug 2019
Expanding the Field: Cynthia Roberts and Larry Volk, Spencer Presentation Gallery,
The Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, 2013
The Inhabitants 1-night exhibition & live digital drawing performance, The André Malraux Museum of Modern Art,
Le Havre, France, December 2012 Musee d’Art Moderne Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France, (two-person show with Gabriela Vainsencher)
Linea Alba, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA 2010
Snowflowers, Aberjona Gallery, Winchester, MA 2007
Ground to Air, J. Broudo Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2006
Wonderland, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA 2005
Routes Reprise, Walter Jacobs Project Wall, Marblehead, MA 2005
Locating Life, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2003
Routes to Water, MAA, Marblehead, MA 2003
Can Grande and Others, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, NY, NY 1999
Intricate Ways, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1996
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Visual Diaries: 10 Artists Books, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, September 2023
Stratosphere NFT Exhibition, curated by @Windswept1111 via @sabet, www.spatial.io/Stratosphere, July 2022
Renew, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, February 2021
Breathe, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Oct—Nov, 2020
Summer Show by Gallery Artists, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, August, 2020
Plus One, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, February 2020
That’s Cliché, or Not, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA, September 2019
Members Exhibition, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, June-August 2018
Art on the Trails, curated exhibition Beales Nature Preserve, Southborough, MA, June 2018 + June 2019
[sculptures on view with intermedia dance/visual collaborative performance Armations Entranced at opening reception 2018]
Unveiled: The Hallspace Drawing Project 2017, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA, Sept-Oct 2017
Synthesis V: Faculty & Student Exhibition, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA, Fall 2017
Faculty Exhibition, The Heftler Gallery, Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2017
Petit 2, Emerge Gallery, Boston, MA, Jan 2017
Petit 1, Emerge Gallery, Boston, MA, Nov 2016
The Hallspace Drawing Project 2016, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA, Sept-Oct 2016
Art In Odd Places: Believe, “Storytime” performance with Ric Haynes, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, April 2016
Plus One, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Sept 2015
The Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA, Sept-Oct 2015
Snap to Grid , LACDA: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 2014 – Jan 2015
The Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA, October 2014
Synthesis III: Faculty & Student Exhibition, Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA, October 2015
Faux Real, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA, August 2014
Synthesis II: Endicott & Montserrat faculty/student exhibition, The Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA, 2014
Synthesis: Endicott & Montserrat faculty/student exhibition, The Rocky Neck Cultural Center, Gloucester, MA, 2013
The Sketchbook Project 2012, organized by Art House Co-op, The Brooklyn Art Library [traveling] 2012
Home, Altered Aesthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2011
Traveling Exhibition of Small Works, Lake County Discovery Museum [traveling through 2012], Wauconda, IL 2011
Sightlines, Center for the Arts, Spencer Presentation Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2011
Faculty Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2009
6x6x2009, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, 2009
Faculty Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2009
Benefit Auction, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, 2008
Faculty Exhibition, David Broudo Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2008
Beverly, MA 2006 New Art 07, Redbrick Gallery, Beverly, MA 2007
Faculty Exhibition, David Broudo Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2006
Works on Paper, Lynn Arts Association, Lynn, MA 2006
Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY 2005
Faculty Exhibition, David Broudo Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2005
Faculty Exhibition, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA 2005
Blue, Redbrick Gallery, Beverly, MA 2005
Creating Places, curated by Mark Brus, NESAD Gallery, Boston, MA 2005
Small Works Show, curated by Leah Oates, Art Space @16, Malden, MA 2004
Faculty Exhibition, Winfisky Gallery, Salem, MA 2004
Faculty Exhibition, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2004
Nowhere Better, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA 2003
Noah’s Ark, curated by Catherine Valenza, The Islip Museum, Islip, NY 2003
My Green Home, Winter Palace, Staten Island, NY 2003
Collaborations, curated by Adria Arch, Brickbottom Gallery, Boston, MA 2003
Summer Group Show, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY 2003
Faculty Exhibition, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2003
The UFO Show, curated by Barry Blinderman, traveling exhibition (catalogue) 2001
University Galleries, Normal, IL; The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas;
The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
On Paper, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)2000
Summertime, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, NY, NY 2000
Criss Cross: Some Young New Yorkers with zingmagazine, PS1, LIC, NY 2000
Easy, Cyber-New York, NY, NY 2000
Mod, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, NY, NY 2000
Zingmagazine Videos at the Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 2000
RESIDENCIES + AWARDS
The Mauser Foundation Eco House Art Residency, Parrita, Costa Rica. January 2024
Triangle Arts Governors Island Artist Residency, New York City, NY October 2020
NEFA Grant [COVID]: Armations Summer 2020
Awarded New England Foundations for the Arts grant during COVID-19 for Armations
with co-creator Nikki Sao-Pedro Welch
Tortuga Escondida International Artist Residency, Akumal, Mexico November 2019
Sabbatical Leave, Endicott College Fall 2019
Women of Impact Award, Endicott College May 2019
The American Prize for Arts Marketing [for Armations] March 2017
Régards//Croisés Laureate: Le Havre//New York 2012 artist in residence & production grant Oct. –Dec. 2012
sponsored by the Institut Francais, Triangle New York, and the city of Le Havre, France; 3-month studio residency
and production grant
Sabbatical Leave, Endicott College Fall 2012
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Artist Residency, Cazenovia, NY Summer 2003
Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Participating Artist [2-week intensive international artist residency], Brooklyn, NY 2002
INTERMEDIA COLLABORATIONS
Nikki Sao Pedro Welch at Bromfield Gallery: Mutualism Movement, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, NY Nov 2022
Big Hat with Armations collaboration Triangle Arts Governors Island, NY Oct 2020
Collaboration with visual artist John Bjerklie [@johnbjerkliearts_bighat], music by Rob Landoll, Visual & Choreographic collaboration with choreographer Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch
site-specific performance, The Jeanie Tengleson Gallery, Dix Hills, NY October 2019
Armations Anthropocene, site-specific performance, Triangle Arts Governors Island, NY August 2019
Visual & Choreographic collaboration with choreographer Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch
Armations Anthropocene: Visual & Choreographic collaboration with choreographer Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch April 2019
presented at: Tia’s Blackbox Theater, Manninen Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Armations Entranced, intermedia dance/visual collaborative performance June 2018
Art on the Trails Exhibition opening, curated exhibition Southborough, MA
Armations Workshop & Presentation, intermedia dance/visual collaboration December 2017
[see Academic Achievements] IUGTE conference, Styria, Austria
Armations Workshop, intermedia dance/visual collaboration, choreographed by Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch July 2016
Phillips Avenue School with Summer Enrichment for English Learners students, Riverhead, NY
Armations, outdoor intermedia dance collaboration, choreographed by Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch Spring 2016
AiOP Art In Odd Places Public Art Festival Believe, Beverly, MA
Armations, intermedia dance collaboration, choreographed by Nicole Sao Pedro-Welch December 2015
premiered at Rose Theater, Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Beverly, MA
Back Going No Going Back, animations & live video /dance collaboration, choreographed by Karen Krolak, artistic director of Monkeyhouse dance company, with palindromes by Barry Duncan performed in at Springstep, Cambridge, MA
March 2013; Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts, Beverly, MA May 2013; MIT’s Laboratorie Oct. 2013 2013
The Diver: international collaboration with LaBaZooKa dance company 2012
premiered at the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art Le Havre, France
Finelight: Visual & Choreographic collaboration with artist Larry Volk & choreographer Nikki Sao Pedro;
presented at: Tia’s Blackbox Theater, Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2011
The Sketchbook Project: Art House Co-op’s annual sketchbook project participant 2012
Life Horizon: Live Painting & Dance collaboration with live video & projection; presented at:
Tia’s Blackbox Theater, Center for the Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA 2009
Live Painting at the Paradise Lounge, Boston, MA 2006
Live Painting at bigzanda gallery, Gloucester, MA 2006
Live Painting at charity fundraiser, Beverly, MA 2006
Floating Studios intensive summer project + Open Day, Lawrence, MA 2005
Live Painting at the Mercury Lounge, NY, NY 2004
Redbrick Biannual Open Studios, Beverly, MA 2004-2007
Live Painting at the Lizard Lounge, Boston, MA 2004
Video collaboration with the band The Skills of Ortega, Boston, MA 2003
Live Painting at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA 2003
PRESS
“Armations Anthropocene: An Immersive Performance”, Artscope Magazine Online, May 22, 2019
https://artscopemagazine.com/2019/05/endicott-repertory-dance-ensembles-armations-anthropocene-an-immersive-performance/
The Beverly Citizen, March 2016
The Salem News, Dec 2015
The Beverly Citizen, Dec 2015
L’Ocean Magazine, “Trans-Art-tlantique: Le Havre-New York Regards Croises”, Dec 2012 / Jan 2013
Le Havre Presse, “L’autre regards sur la ville: Creation. Dans le cadre d’échanges entre New York et Le Havre, deux artistes américaines sont en residence.”, December 2012
The Salem News, Dec 2011
The Salem News, Dec 2009
The Beverly Citizen, Nov 2006
The Boston Globe North, Nov 2006
The Salem Evening News, April 6, 2006
The Eagle Tribune, August 12, 2005
Arts Log, Salem State College, Volume 80, Issue 4, February 2005
Perez, Christophe, The Partinian Effect, catalogue essay for Nowhere Better, fall 2003
The New York Sun, November 4, 2002
Triangle Artists’ Workshop Catalogue, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
Lozano, Layla, “Interview with Cynthia Roberts”, zingmagazine, issue 11, winter 2000
McCormick, Carlo, “We Believe,” UFO Show catalogue, 2000
The New Yorker, July 10, 2000
Martinez, Marisol, “Summertime at TCCA,” zingmagazine, issue 13, autumn 2000
Time Out NY, issue 211, October 7-14, 1999
Lozano, Layla, “Clear Feeling”, catalogue essay for Can Grande and Others, 1999
Fitzbaer, Helga, Mod at TCCA, zingmagazine, winter 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Private Art Sessions/Lessons/Workshops. May 2020-Present
Full Professor, Studio Art May 2018–May 2020
School of Visual + Performing Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Associate Professor, 2D Studio Art Sept 2012–May 2018
School of Visual + Performing Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Assistant Professor, 2D Studio Art Sept 2006–Aug 2012
School of Visual + Performing Arts, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Adjunct Faculty, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Jan 2002–2006
Adjunct Faculty, Long Island University, LI, NY Summer 2006, 2007
Adjunct Faculty, New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA Fall 2004–2006
Adjunct Faculty, Salem State University, Salem, MA 2004–2005
Guest Lecturer, Long Island University, LI, NY July 2004
Guest Lecturer, Long Island University, LI, NY 2002
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1994–1996
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Conference Presentation Guest, “The Art and Geography and Geography and Art of Landscape”
Dr. Michael Justin, Michael Miller, Cynthia Roberts June 2023
21st International Conference on the New Directions in Humanities
Sorbonne Université, Faculte des Lettre, Paris, France via online conference presentation
Conference Roundtable, “AiOP Art in Odd Places: A Moveable Feast of Public Art and Civic Engagement”
Cynthia Roberts, Ed Woodham, Furusho von Puttkammer, Michael Justin Kilburn October 2021
OHA Oral History Association Conference online
Co-Presentation: “The Art and Dance of Collaboration” Sept 2019
Cambridge Biomarketing, Boston, MA
with collaborator Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch
LULU “Lunch and Learn” series at corporate biomarketing agency
Sabbatical Leave & Professional Development Grant Fall 2019
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Conference Workshop: “Sketchbook: Public and Private” March 2019
FATE Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education
Conference Presentation: “Humor as Narrative, Process, and Outrage: From Ric Haynes’ October 2018
Buffalo Jump Serenade to Linda Mary Montano and Ed Woodham’s Chickenarama and Beyond”
SECAC, Birmingham, AL
Workshop: The Sketchbook, Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts June 2018
Short-format Sketchbook workshop for all levels
Conference Presentation, IUGTE: “Concept and Convergence: Collaboration in Intermedia Visual Art and Dance”
co-presentation and workshop with colleague Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch Dec. 2017
Styria, Austria
Conference Presentation: “Portfolio as Passport: Keys to Unlocking the Internship” March 2017
session: Developing Foundations of Professionalism and Purpose Through Work-Integrated Learning Experiences
FATE Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education, Kansas City, MO
Conference Attendance, The College Art Association Feb. 2017
New York, NY
Régards//Croisés Laureate: Le Havre//New York 2012 artist in residence & production grant Oct. –Dec. 2012
sponsored by the Institut Francais, Triangle New York, and the city of Le Havre; 3-month studio residency
and production grant
Sabbatical Leave & Professional Development Grant Fall 2012
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Nominee: Excellence in Teaching Award 2012
Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Conference Presentation: “Life Horizon: Interdisciplinary Intersections” 2011
SECAC, Savannah, GA
Conference Presentation/Roundtable Host: “NASAD: What I Will Have Learned” 2010
FATE Foundations in Art, Theory, and Education, St. Louis, MO
Community of Learners Grant: Art & War Symposium 2010
Received grant for developing a symposium featuring Visiting Artists who are both veterans as well as actively practicing visual artists. Included veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam conflicts. Grant served to provide panel, presentations, break-out sessions with students, temporary exhibition of work, as well as a companion trip for 45 BFA students to the ICA, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to view an exhibition by Krzysztof Wodiczko.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Pratt Alumni Network, Boston Chapter, Vice-Chair 2018-2021
College Art Association (CAA) 2000-2019
SECAC, The South Eastern Colleges of Art Conference 2011-2019
FATE, Foundations in Art and Theory in Education, Active Member since 2006
AIGA, The American Association of Graphic Artists, Active Member 2006–2011
Triangle Arts Association, Board of Directors, Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY 2003–2005
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Local District Board Member 2001–2002
ENDICOTT COLLEGE ARTS DEVELOPMENT & STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Co-Faculty chaperone, Costa Rica January 2016 & 2018
trip culmination of an HMS/Spanish course delivered by a colleague throughout the semester prior; January 2018
included travel to multiple destinations and all students and faculty resided with host families
Co-Faculty Advisor, Endicott Art Club, student run group designed to foster the personal and 2010–2016
professional aspirations of young artists and creatives at Endicott
Co-Faculty chaperone, January Alternative Break Africa Trip, student volunteer trip January 2012
preparation included weekly meetings throughout the semester prior; 3-week trip
volunteering daily on site at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Faculty Advisor, AIGA, the professional association for design, Endicott student group 2006-2010
OTHER
AIGA Member, the professional association for design 2006–2011
Redbrick Arts Artist Member 2004–2008
Volunteer Artist: Popsmear.org 2003–2005
Triangle Arts Association, Board of Directors, Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY 2003–2005
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Local District Board Member 2001–2002
Boston Childrens’ Hospital NYC Marathon Fundraising Team, Boston & NY 2017
Seacoast Half Marathon: Caring for the Coast, Portsmouth, NH 2018
INTERESTS
Running: 2017 New York City Marathon finisher [fundraised for Boston Children’s Hospital]; 2006 Bay State Marathon finisher; 2018 Seacoast Half Marathon: Caring for the Coast, Portsmouth, NH; 2020 Hamptons Women’s Half Marathon [virtual]
Travel: France, South Africa, Iceland, Mexico, Holland, Russia, Israel, Armenia, Greece, Germany, England, Denmark, Costa Rica, Italy, Spain, U.S.A.
Backpacking & Hiking: Adirondacks (2 of 46 High Peaks summitted), White Mountains National Forest, NH; Catskills, NY;
Baxter State Park & environs, Maine
Novice snowboarder and even more novice surfer
Basic Birdwatcher
Intermediate Telenovella Watcher
Languages: conversational Spanish, rudimentary Italian, dismal French