SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Cynthia Hawkins, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
Cynthia Hawkins: Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D, Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Cynthia Hawkins: Gwynfor's Soup and the Proximity of Matter, Ortuzar Projects,
New York, NY
2022 Natural Things: 1996 – 1999, Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Cynthia Hawkins, Work from the Butterfly House, Apartment One, Livingston Art
Center, Mount Morris, NY
2010 Signs of Civilization, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, MX
2009 Clusters: Stellar and Earthly, Buffalo Science Museum, Atrium Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008 Cynthia Hawkins: 1997 – 2007, Joy Gallery, Rochester, NY
2007 *Clusters, Walsh Gallery, Walsh Library, Seton Hall University, NJ
2004 *Clusters: Paintings and Drawings, Sharon Miller Gallery, Montclair, NJ
*Clusters: Paintings and Drawings, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, NY, NY
2002 Cynthia Hawkins: New Work, Foxglove Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA
1997 Selected Works: 1990 – 1996, Queens College Art Center, Benjamin S. Rosenthal
Library, Queens College (CUNY), Flushing, NY
1996 Prints from VCCA Residency, The Shallow Gallery, Rockland Community College,
Suffern, NY
1993 The Calling, Trinity Lutheran Church, New Milford, CT
1991 Meditations: Works on Paper, Essex Community College, Essex, MD
1989 New Works: The Currency of Meaning, Cinque Gallery, NY, NY
1986 Cynthia Hawkins, Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College,
Miami, FL
1981 Cynthia Hawkins, Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Drawings, Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 An excessive ellipse, a sort of distribution, Hollybush Gardens Gallery, London, UK
The Inseparables, Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
So let us all be citizens, too, David Zwirner London, London, UK
2022 Frieze Masters – London, Ortuzar Projects, New York, NY
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Painting in New York, 1971 – 1983, Karma Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Permanent Collection, La Grange Museum of Art, La Grange, GA
Black Abstract Art in the 21st Century: An exhibition of Radical Vision and Imagination,
US+Warburton Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Colliding with History: African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes
and Missy Cochran, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Georgia State
University, Atlanta, GA
Creating Community Cinque Gallery Artists, Art Student's League, NY
2020 The Currency of Meaning and Other Tales, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2020, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, Geneseo, NY
2014 Facing the Rising Sun, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
2013 From the Studio: Faculty Exhibition, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY, Geneseo, NY
Paper Works, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, NY
Women Enchanting the Muses, Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2010 Selected Works on Paper, The Hungerford Urban Artists Building, Rochester, NY
2009 From the Studio: Faculty Exhibition, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY, Geneseo, NY
2007 From the Studio: Faculty Exhibition, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY, Geneseo, NY
More Than A Book: Imagination, Tools, Creation, traveling exhibition: Experimental
Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, MaryAnn Miller, curator
2006 Some Serious Business, NCC, Bethlehem, PA
Artists Books from EPI, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
For Love and Peace of Mind, O.G.T., New York, NY
2001 A Life in Art, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2000 Nine Chose Nine, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
1999 Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, NY
InClement Weather, Rush Art Foundation, New York, NY
Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ1997 The Aljira National 3, Aljira – A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Talk Back! The Community Responds to the Permanent Collection, Part lII, The
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Talk Back! The Community Responds to the Permanent Collection, Part II, The Bronx
Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1996 Art from the Colonies, The Rotunda of Rockland Community College Library, RCC,
Suffern, NY
Faculty Art, College Art Gallery, The College at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Two Person Exhibition, Hopper House, Nyack, NY, Community College, Suffern, NY
A Black American Perspective, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco,
NY
1995 Faculty Exhibition, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art, Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Black Pearls: Treasures of African-American Women Artists, Cinque Gallery, N.Y., NY
National Print and Drawing Exhibition and Competition, University of Notre Dame at
Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Art New York: A Multicultural Perspective, Rotunda at Rockland Comm. College,
Suffern, NY
1994 Building the Collection: Recent Acquisitions and Selected Works from the
Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Works on Paper, Cynthia Hawkins and Maren Hassinger, Peg Alston Fine Art, NY, NY
The Forman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
African American Image, Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
The Art of Photography and Painting, The New City Library, New City, NY
1993 Artists Select, Artists Space, New York, NY
Women of the Americas, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw, Haverstraw, NY
The 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions and Selected Works from The
Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, New York, NY
An Artistic Presentation of Sensuality, The Stairway Gallery, New Milford, CT
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art, Paine-Webber
Gallery, NY
Each Surface Hides a Story, New City Library, New City, NY
1992 Uncommon Ground, City Hall courtyard Galleries, Baltimore, MD
Kromah Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1991 The Mystic Vision, Artscape '91, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Spring 1991 Juried Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Hawkins and Page Fleming, Gallery at The Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore, MD
1990 From the Print Collection, Dome Gallery, New York, NY
Black Women in the Arts 1990, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ
Manifestations and Influences, The Printmaking Workshop at The Harlem School for
the Arts, NY
1989 Desire, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ
From the Studio: Then and Now, PepsiCo Gallery, Purchase, NY
1988 From the Studio: Artist in Residence 1987-1988, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York, NY
1987 Selections, Artists Space, New York, NY
1986 Small Scale Abstraction, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, Women's Caucus on the Arts, Clocktower, NY, NY
1985 Carnival: Ritual of Reversal, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Atlanta Life Insurance Company Exhibition and Competition, Atlanta, GA
1984 Paper, Clay and Steel, Jamie Szoke Gallery, New York, NY
Collectors Exhibition, Mississippi Museum of Art, New York, NY
Hawkins/Epstein/Romero, Jamie Szoke Gallery, New York, NY
Four Views, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Mass. Amherst, Amherst, MA
1982 Atlanta Life Insurance Company Exhibition and Competition, Atlanta, GA
1980 Outlaw Aesthetics, Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
Three Episodes: Afro-American Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1979 Remains, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, NY
1978 Summer Show: It's a Crowd, Just Above Midtown, New York, NY
1973 Ten Women, Queens College Gallery, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Historicizing African American Abstraction, Printmaking, and Activism in 1960s and 1970s
New York City,” Ben Wigfall: His Art and Communication Village, Virginia Museum of Fine
Art, June 2023
Just Above Midtown Gallery: Changing Spaces, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2022
“Extending the Notion of Activism in Wes and Missy Collection of African American Prints and
Works on Paper,” by Cynthia Hawkins in Colliding with History: African American Works on
Paper from the Wes and Missy Cochran Collection, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design
Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, published by Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA,
2021
Printers Ink: News from the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2010
Who's Who of American Women 2008 – 2009, Marquis Publishing, December 2007
"Cynthia Hawkins, Selected Works," in Pocono Record, April 4th 2002 (Review, Illustration)
"Foxglove Gallery April Exhibit: Selected Works," in Pike County Dispatch, April 4th 2002 (Review)
Who’s Who of American Women 22nd Edition, 2000 – 2001, Marquis Publishing, December 2000
In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Smithsonian Inst./Verve Editions, April 2001 (Catalog, Illustration)
Who's Who in America 2001, Marquis Publishing, December 2000
Who's Who of American Women 2000, Marquis Publishing, December 1999
InClement Weather, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, 1999 (Catalog)
"Cynthia Hawkins, Selected Works: 1990 – 1996," by Tina Morales for New York Newsday, February 9th 1997 (Review, Illustration)
Who’s Who of American Women 1997- 1998, Marquis Publishing, December 1996
Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists, Midmarch Arts Press, NY 1996
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African American Art, Paine-Webber Galleries, NY (Catalog)
"Fournier and Hawkins to show at New City Library," in Rockland Review, January 6th 1994
"Forgotten Treasures of African American Art," by Nancy Cacioppo in Rockland Journal, August 19th 1993
"'Art and the African American Experience' featured this fall at RCC,'" Arts Happenings, Arts Council of Rockland, September 1993
"An Exhibit for the Sensual Self," by Fran Merkling in The News-Times, August 17th 1993
The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Twentieth Century, by Robert Henekes, McFarland, 1993 (Illustrations)
"Spring 1991 Juried Exhibition," the Baltimore Sun, June 5th 1991 (Review)
"The Regional Question: Spring Juried Exhibition," essay by Curator Kellie Jones for School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD (Catalog)
Article by Thelma Golden in International Review of African American Art, vol. 9 (2), January 1990 (Article, Illustrations)
"Black Women in the Arts 1990," Montclair State College, Newark, NJ (Catalog, Illustration, Video)
"July 6, Art" in New Jersey Star Ledger (Review)
"American family portrait," Home Magazine, January 1990 (Illustration)
Essay by Grace Stanislaus for exhibition From the Studio: Artist in Residence 1987-1988, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, 1988 (Catalog, Illustration)
Essay by Kellie Jones for exhibition Selections, Artists Space, New York, NY, 1987 (Catalog, Illustration)
Essay by Judith Wilson for exhibition Cynthia Hawkins, Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami, FL, 1986 (Catalog, Illustration)
Progressions: A Cultural Legacy, Clocktower, New York, NY, 1986 (Catalog)
The 5th Annual Atlanta Life Insurance Company Exhibition and Competition, Atlanta, GA, 1985 (Illustration)
Essay by Karen Koehler for exhibition Four Views, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Mass. Amherst, Amherst, MA 1984 (Catalog, Illustration)
"July 20," by Vivian Raynor in New York Times, 1984 (Review)
"Picks of the Week" in Village Voice, January 21st 1981 (Review)
Essay by Linda Goode Bryant for exhibition Remains, Emily Lowe Galelry, Hofstra University, Hempstead NY, 1979 (Catalog)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / VISITING ARTIST
AIR – The Butterfly House, Le Grange, GA (March 17-21, 2014)
AIR - Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, (Oct.2005-Aug.2006)
AIR - Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, (March 25 - April 4, 1996)
AIR - The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, NY (Painting 1987-1988)
VA - Round House Press, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, January 1994
VA - Art in New York: A Multicultural Perspective, Rockland Community College, SUNY,
Suffern, NY, Spring 1995
AWARDS
The Helen Frankenthaler Prize for Painting, 2023, Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY
Toward Equity in Publishing, Smithsonian Institute, American Art Journal, 2021-2022
Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship, 2009
Rockland Community College Award for Artistic Excellence, 1996
The Herbert and Irene Wheeler Grant, 1995
Rockland Community College Award for Artistic Excellence, 1995, 1994
Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, United States Department of Education (Full Academic Fellowship) 1990-1992
Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Exhibition and Competition, Atlanta, GA (2nd place Mixed Media 1984)
Brooklyn Museum Art School Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY (Watercolor 1972)
Provincetown Workshop Scholarship, Provincetown, MA (Painting 1975)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
PUBLIC
The Horseman Foundation, MO
The La Grange Art Museum, La Grange, GA
Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
Experimental Printmaking Institution, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, CUNY, Queens College, New York, NY
Rockland Community College, SUNY
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Trinity Lutheran Church, New Milford, CT
Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Department of State, Washington, DC
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
CORPORATE
The Horseman Foundation, MO
Brown Management, Baltimore, MD
Chevron Corporation, CA
Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA
Cameron and Colby, New York, NY
C.D. Walsh Associates, CT
Brooks Sausage Company, Kenosha, WI
The Habitat Co., Chicago
PRIVATE
Mr. R. Jarocki, NJ
The Cochran Collection (Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Cochrane, GA)
Ms. Judith Byrd, Chicago
Ms. R. Gallagher, NY, NY
Ms. P. Clark, Allendale, MI
Ms. J. Kaplan, Brooklyn, NY
Prof. D. Innanouci, NY
Prof. E. Harvey, Haverstraw, NY
Ms. Thelma Golden, NY
Ms. Shirley Rosenberg, San Mateo, CA
Ms. Cornelia McDonald, NY
Mr. Adam Kassolff, NY
Ms. Valerie Mercer, MI
Mr. Eric McKissick, Baltimore, MD
Ms. Peg Alston, NY
Dr. Betty Davis, NY
Updated August 2023