Cindy Wright
Born 1972, Herentals (Belgium)
Lives and works in Antwerp
Education
2005-2006
Postgraduate, candidate-laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts
(H.I.S.K.), Antwerp
1992-1996
Royal Academy for Fine Arts Antwerp (KASKA),
Master in the Visual Arts, Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Galerie Mercator, Antwerpen, October 2004 – January 2005
2004 Galerie Annie Gentils, Art Brussels
2003 Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp
1998 Bernarduscentrum, Antwerp
Group Shows
2005 Gender, Het Achterhuis, Gent
Jeune Peinture Belge, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels
Slow Art, Dutch and Flemish Contemporary Art, Museum Kunst Palast,
Dusseldorf, Germany
Back to the Picture, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Rewind, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
2004 Frissiras Museum Painting Award, Athens, traveling to Crete and
Salonica
K.U.R.K., C.C. De Warande, Turnhout
Prize for Painting Maior Camille Huysmans, St. Jorispand, Antwerp
Freundschaftmaschine, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp
2003 Sugar and Spice, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp
BP Portrait Award 2003, National Portrait Gallery, London, traveling to Aberdeen Art Gallery
10th International Prize Hoppeland for Painting 2003, Gasthuiskapel, Poperinge
2002 The Leak, The Far Sit, Braschaat
1998 Let’s Find Gallery, Boechout
Pas geverfd 2, Temse
1997 Pas geverfd, Moerzeke
Koningin Fabiolazaal, Antwerp
1996 4a, Campo, Antwerp
Prizes
2005 Jeune Peinture Belge; one of the six selected
young artists for The Prize of Young Belgian Painting
“contemporary art” at Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
2004 Prize for Painting Maior Camille Huysmans, Royal Academy for Fine Arts Antwerp
2003 10th International Prize Hoppeland for Painting 2003, Prize City of Poperinge
Exhibition Catalogues
2005 Beligian Painters Award 2005, text by Peter Doroshenko, Bozar Books
Slow Art, Mattijs Visser, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany 2004
2004 Art Brussels, 22nd contemporary art fair, p. 156-157
Galauwerde beelden, Paul Ilegems, Hogeschool Antwepen (K.A.S.K.A.)
2003 B.P. Portrait Award, A.S. Byatt, National Portrait Gallery Publications
Frissiras Award, Edward Lucy-Smith, the Frissiras museum friends fund
10e Internationale Prijs Hoppeland, V.Z.W. Koninklijke Kunstkring Hoppeland
Poperinge
1997 1Spring ’97. Jan Walgrave, Provincie Antwerpen
10th International Prize Hoppeland for Painting 2003, Gasthuiskapel, Poperinge
2004 Frissiras Museum Painting Award, Athens, from 12/’03 till 01/’04, then in
Crete and Salonica till 03/’04
K.U.R.K., C.C. De Warande, Turnhout
Prize for Painting Maior Camille Huysmans, St. Jorispand, Antwerp
Freundschaftsmaschine, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp
2005 Planet Gender, Het Achterhuis, Gent
Jeune Peinture Belge, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Slow Art, Dutch and Flemish Contemporary Art, Museum Kunst Palast