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 Hunter College, summa cum laude, New York NY

Exhibitions

2021 Folk Art, London Art Fair Platform section, Candida Stevens Gallery, London UK
2020 Women's Lockdown Art, auction to benefit Women + Health, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK (physical exhibition cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020 Aurora, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo)
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, 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

Workshops

2019 Fruits of Origin: Thinking and Talking Beyond Embroidery, AMP Gallery, London UK
2018 Sewing Circle: Stitching and the Fabric of Conversation, UCL Art Museum, London UK

Residencies

2020 Villa Lena (invited as Creative Contributor), Tuscany Italy (forthcoming)
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

Awards

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

Publications / Press

2021 Embroidery Magazine interview
2020 Art Fictions podcast
2020 Tender Touches
2020 Festival of Quilts Magazine
2020 ArtMaze Magazine
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

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