ANNETTE CYR Lives and works in New York City and San Diego | |
SCREENINGS | |
| 2019 | Blindness, narrative short, streaming live on Amazon, US and UK; Vimeo on demand worldwide |
| 2018 | Blindness, narrative short, selection in Cannes Short Film Corner and San Diego Film Week |
| Blindness, narrative short, broadcast DIRECT TV – Shorts TV: North America, Europe and Middle East | |
| 2017 | Blindness, narrative short, Acquisition by Hewes Pictures, Inc., NY, NY |
| Blindness, narrative short, Screening, official selection, PEBlive, Vancouver, Canada | |
| Blindness, narrative short, Reviewed in Variety, by Malina Saval, Features; Aug. 2017 | |
| Silent/LISTEN, world premiere of performance work, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC | |
| 2015 | The New Look, short, Screening, official selection in Impossible, Skowhegan, NY, NY |
| The New Look, short, Screening, official selection Flicks on the Bricks, Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA | |
| 2014 | The New Look, Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido, CA: Film Night |
| 2013 | Evangeline, Haskell Library and Opera House, Stanstead, QC, Canada |
| 2012 | Evangeline, Cafe Mosaique, Levi, Quebec, Canada |
| 2010 | Evangeline, with original score performed by The Fine Arts Trio, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Sacramento, CA |
| Evangeline, with original score performed by The Fine Arts Trio, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA | |
| 2009 | Late Bloomers McBurney YMCA, NY, NY |
SOLO PAINTING EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | University of California, Santa Barbara Sex, Love & Dutch Flower Painting |
| Cleary, Gottlieb, New York, NY; Tulip Mania, curated by Elizabeth Levine | |
| Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Big Red Kiss, Light Projection for The Journey, Ollom Dance | |
| 2003 | DBX Gallery, DUMBO; New Work, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2000 | Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA; Columns & Corner Paintings, Curator: Linda Benet |
| 1997 | New Arts Salon, Philadelphia, PA; Annette Cyr: Divine Comedy Paintings |
| 1996 | Metlife Building, New York, NY; Metamorphosis Paintings by Annette Cyr |
| 1995 | Saint Peter’s Church, Citicorp Center, New York, NY; Women in Predicaments |
| 1990 | Connecticut College, New London, CT; Urban Allegories, Paintings by Annette Cyr |
| 1989 | ZONE Billboard Project, Urban Battlescene, New York, NY |
| 1988 | BACA/DOWNTOWN, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, Divine Comedy, 3-floor installation painting |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Bonita Museum, Bonita, CA; Liberty, curated by Joan Dart |
| 2017 | Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC; Silent/LISTEN, world premiere of performance work |
| 2014 | Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA; 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition |
| 2011 | Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Twin, Twin Curator: Matt Freedman |
| 2011 | 214a Gallery & Project Space, San Diego, CA Spiral Bound |
| Curators: Romanov Grave & Joan Dart | |
| 2007 | Artists Space, New York, NY; Night of a Thousand Drawings |
| 2006 | Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI; Secretive, curated by Annette Cyr |
| 2005 | North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; Benefit Auction |
| 2004 | Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY; Intimacy, curated by David Gibson |
| 2002 | Fables of La Fontaine exhibited at: Temple Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Rome, Italy; Aix, France |
| 2003 | d.u.m.b.o arts festival, Brooklyn, NY; Bi-Polar, video installation |
| 1999 | New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Selections from the Permanent Collection |
| The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Collectors Exhibition, curator: Townsend Wolfe | |
| 1996 | New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; New Acquisitions |
| 1993 | Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; New Acquisitions |
| 1992 | Maxwell Davidson Gallery, N.Y., NY; New and Old Faces |
| 1991 | Hillwood Museum, Brookville, NY; Original Sin |
| Art in General, New York, NY; Out Loud | |
AWARDS | |
| 2018 | Full Time Faculty Sabbatical Award, National University |
| 2015 | President's Scholarship Award, National University |
| 2015 | Merit Award, National University |
| 2014 | Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Grant Recipient |
| 2013 | President's Award for Excellence in Online Content for Beginning Drawing studio art course |
| 1996 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Painting |
| 1982-94 | Residency Fellowships at: Yaddo, NY; MacDowell, NH; Dorland Mountain Colony, CA; |
| Hambidge Center, GA; Art Awareness, NY; Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, NY. | |
| 1990 | Art Matters, Inc. Grant, NYSCA Grant |
| 1988 | NYSCA & Art Matters Inc. funding for Divine Comedy, Brooklyn Arts Council |
| 1981 | The Helen Winternitz Excellence in Painting Award, Yale University |
| 1979-81 | Yale Tuition Scholarships |
| 1976 | The Arthur O. Anderson Tuition Scholarship, Skowhegan School |
EDUCATION | |
| 2017 | MFA in Digital Cinema, National University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005-08 | The New School University, New York, NY - Film Production Certification program |
| Studied with Daniel Gold, Judith Hefland, (Sundance award recipients) and Marlena Grzaslewcz, (sound editor, Ken Burns documentaries) | |
| 1981 | MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Studied with: William Bailey, Mel Bochner, Judy Pfaff, Natalie Charkow, Rackstraw Downes, Bernard Chaet | |
| 1976 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 1976 | BA, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1974 | University of California, Junior Year Abroad Graduate Film Studies Program, |
| L'université de Paris, France; Censier, La Sorbonne | |
TEACHING | |
| 2008-present | National University, La Jolla, CA, Associate Professor Associate Professor
• Lead Faculty Art & Music, College of Letters and Science • Founding Director, 214a Gallery + Project Space, National University • Former Director of Center for Cultural and Ethnic Studies (Arts and Lectures Series from 08 -11) • Professor of Drawing, Painting and Art History Developer of Online Studio Art and Art History courses |
| 2002 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Adjunct Professor |
| 2000-2002 | Pratt Institute, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor |
| 2001 | University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Visiting Artist and Speaker |
| 2001 | Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA Adjunct Professor |
| 1982-86 | Parsons School of Design, Department of Fine Arts, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor, |
SELECTED COLLECTIONS | |
| Alamo Rental, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL American Express, Minneapolis, MN New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ North Dakota Museum of Art, ND Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Yale University, New Haven, CT | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Bender, Vanessa, www.Bender.Today; Interview with Annette Cyr, Painter and Filmmaker, June 2018 | |
| Asije, Niger Cannes 2018 Interview with Cannes Director Annette Cyr, May 2018 | |
| Savla, Malina, Associate Editor, Features, Filmmakers Strive to Raise Awareness of the Disabled., http://variety.com/2017/film/news/blindness-80-disabled-flesh-of-my-flesh-still-sophie-1202510599/ May 2018 | |
| Woodard, Josef 10 Best Art Shows, The Critics review of the best of 2004, Santa Barbara News Press, Dec. 26, 2004 | |
| Woodard, Josef Flowering Investigations, review of solo exhibition at UCSB, Santa Barbara News Press, Aug. 13, 2004 | |
| Couture, Andrea Like a Ride on a Runaway, Review of Horse Paintings, Spur, Dec. 1997. | |
| Fitzgerald, Nora An artist's 'Allegories' of the city, Review of solo exhibition at Connecticut College, The Day, Sunday, Feb. 17, 1990. | |
SELECTED LECTURES/PANELS | |
| 2017 | Presentation, IASEP Conference, on the pictorial space in the my San Diego Studio Series |
| 2013 | Presentation at College Art Association, New York, NY on Teaching Fine Arts Online |
| 2011 | Lecture on my paintings and films; Scripps College, Claremont, California |
| 2005 | Lecture on my Women in Predicaments paintings & Late Bloomers, my documentary film to the Women's Project Faculty Group, Nassau County Community College, NY |
| 2004 | Panel discussion On Creativity, moderated by choreographer John Ollom, McBurney YMCA, NY, NY |
| 2003 | Panel discussion of artists in the group show, Intimacy, moderated by curator, David Gibson, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Williamsburg, NY |
| 2001 | Slide lecture on Art History Influences in my Painting, Visual Literacy Program, University of California, Santa Barbara |
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 1998 | Curatorial Assistant, Forbes Collection |
| 1987 | Studio assistant to sculptor Mierle Laderman Ukeles |
| 1985-6 | Assistant to Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY |