Cecilia Charlton - CV

Cecilia Charlton

b. 1985, Corning, New York, USA
Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2018 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London UK
2015 BFA Painting, Hunter College, New York NY

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Reinkarnacija, Židinys Gallery, Vilnius LT
2023 Memory Garden, Garden Museum, London UK
2023 Syzygy, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK
2021 Mammoth Loop, SPACE Ilford, London UK
2021 Love Token, Robert Young Antiques, London UK
2020 Aurora, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Every Infinitesimal Thought, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich ME (forthcoming)
2025 Pattern Cutters, Ragged School Museum, London UK
2024 Antigone Revisited, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios HQ, London UK
2024 Myths & Annunciations, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (two-person show)
2024 Revival, Cambridge's Painted Church, Cambridge UK
2024 Colours Uncovered, Harewood House, Leeds UK
2024 COLLECT art fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK
2023 Positions: Part Two, Alma Pearl Gallery, London UK
2023 Summer Exhibition, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK
2023 COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK
2023 Altered Sites: On Psychedelic Architecture, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
2022 Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open, Jerwood Arts (London), Newlyn Art Gallery (Newlyn), Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen)
2022 COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK
2021 Folk Art, London Art Fair Platform section, Candida Stevens Gallery, London UK
2020 when you make sense I feel, curated by Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK
2019 Parade, curated by Kris Day, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City UK
2019 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London UK
2019 Tender Touches, curated by Huma Kabakci & Ines Neto dos Santos, AMP Gallery, London UK
2019 Grid: Preset, Blyth Gallery, London UK
2018 FAKERS, curated by Cypher Collective, Thamesside Gallery, London UK
2018 Lifeline as Medium, 532 Gallery, NYC USA
2018 Rogue Objects, University College of London, London UK
2018 RCA MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
2018 SURGE, the East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London UK
2018 Living Room, Safehouse 1 & 2, London UK
2018 Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London UK
2018 An Audience of Echoes, Hockney Gallery, London UK
2018 Rubber-chew // Clink, adieu, Unit 1 Gallery, London UK
2017 RCA WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
2016 The Abstraction of Continents / The Continent of Abstraction, Lychee One Gallery, London UK
2016 Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
2015 BFA / THESIS, Hunter College, New York NY

Awards

2025 SGSAH Collaborative Doctoral Award (Glasgow School of Art)
2025 Lithuanian Cultural Council Mobility Grant
2024 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant
2023 a-n Artist Company Artist Bursary
2022 Brookfield Properties Craft Prize, short-listed
2021 Jerwood Art Fund Maker's Open
2020 Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award, short-listed
2016 Fulbright UK Open Award, short-listed
2015 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2015 Andy and Marsha Glazer Painting Award, Art of the Northeast Exhibition
2015 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College
2014 Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship, Yale University
2014 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College
2010 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA
2009 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA
2009 Bob Tichane Endowment for the Arts, Corning Community College

Commissions

2022 Bloom Nine Elms (Double Decker)
2022 London School of Economics (Artiq)
2021 SPACE Ilford (sponsored by Mercers Charitable Foundation)
2021 Bart's Health NHS Trust (Vital Arts)
2021 Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open (Jerwood Arts)
2018 Cunard Line (Double Decker)

Public Collections

National Museum of Lithuania
London School of Economics
Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation
Barts Health NHS Trust

Residencies

2025 Textile Recreation Workshop, National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius LT
2024 West Dean College of Arts, Design, and Conservation, Sussex UK
2023 Verpejos, Kabeliai Lithuania
2022 Villa Lena, Tuscany Italy
2017 RUD AIR, Laxarby Sweden
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2015 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi Finland
2014 Yale Norfolk School of Music & Art, Norfolk CT

Teaching/ Lectures

2025 Coverlets // Divonai, National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius LT
2025 Process as Practice, West Dean College of Arts, Design, and Conservation, Sussex UK
2024 time-weave, West Dean College of Arts, Design, and Conservation, Sussex UK
2024 Artist talk, Cambridge Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers, Cambridge UK

Workshops

2025 Weaving demonstration, Avalanche Summit VIP event, London UK
2024 Bargello workshop, Cambridge Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers, Cambridge UK
2024 Bargello workshop, David Parr House, Cambridge UK
2024 Weaving demonstration and bargello workshop, Garden Museum, London UK
2024 Bargello workshop, Cambridge's Painted Church, Cambridge UK
2023 Bargello workshops and weaving demonstrations, London Craft Week, Garden Museum, London UK
2023 75th Anniversary of the NHS, bargello workshop, Wellcome Museum, London UK
2022 Bargello workshop, Meadows, London UK
2022 Youth Workshop, bargello workshop with secondary school students, Jerwood Arts, London UK
2022 Bargello and darning workshops, Villa Lena Artist Residency, Tuscany Italy
2022 COSMOS, bargello workshop with selection of readings, Jerwood Arts, London UK
2021 Mammoth Loop: A stitch in time, a series of 15 textile workshops with local seniors, SPACE Ilford, London UK
2021 Bargello Bonanza!, bargello workshop, Robert Young Antiques, London UK
2019 Fruits of Origin: Thinking and Talking Beyond Embroidery, crewel workshop, AMP Gallery, London UK
2018 Sewing Circle: Stitching and the Fabric of Conversation, crewel workshop, UCL Art Museum, London UK

Publications / Press

2024 The Londonist
2024 Ateliers d'Art
2023 FX Magazine
2023 FT Weekend
2023 El País
2023 Crafts Magazine, artist feature
2023 Sotheby's Reside
2023 The Times
2023 artnet, review
2023 The Protagonist Magazine, review
2022 The Courtauldian, review
2022 Effect Magazine, review
2022 The Guardian
2022 The Design Edit, review
2022 Kinship + Craft interview
2022 hole & corner interview
2021 Embroidery Magazine interview
2020 Art Fictions podcast
2020 Tender Touches
2020 Festival of Quilts Magazine
2020 ArtMaze Magazine
2020 this is tomorrow
2019 Vogue UK
2019 FAD Magazine
2019 Sixth Finch
2018 Young Space Interview
2016 Front Art Space, OPEN16
2016 New American Paintings, Northeast #122

Curation

2024 Rather Cuddly Things, Contemporary Collaborations, Robert Young Antiques, London UK
2019 A RAW GARDEN, Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK
2018 LEGS, Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK
2018 Copernicus & Galileo, Pinch Project Space, London UK
2018 Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London UK