Cindy Loehr is now writing as Cynthia Gray
and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY contact


Solo Exhibitions

2008
Twilight Knowledge, moniquemeloche, Chicago

2006
Fuel for Constant Light, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
Your Prophetic Heart, performance at the Milwaukee International Art Fair

2005
Rough Magic and Dark Lullaby: Cindy Loehr and Rachel Lowther, Atlanta Contemporary, curated by Helena Reckitt

2004
Bluebird Burden, moniquemeloche, Chicago
Public Love Letter Reading, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2003
Subject Index, (in collaboration with Michael Banicki, Peter Barrickman, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Nicholas Frank, Gaylen Gerber, Brandon Larson and Helen Mirra), The Pond Project, Chicago

2002
Snowman Stories, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond
Waiting Room/Session Room, (in collaboration with Nicola Axford, Joe Baldwin, Jeremy Boyle & Annabelle Clarke), Deluxe Projects, Chicago

2001
Public Address, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Valentine's Project, love form letters sent to select recipients through the mail

2000
Nap Room and Other Projects, suitable, Chicago
Nap Room, Installation, Office of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Ongoing Projects

don't give up magnets, given away by the artist and supporting distributors (2000 - )
the love letter collection an ongoing collection of anonymous love letters (2001 - )
tracts writing (2008 - )


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
The Things We Do, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada

2009
The Advisor as part of In Practice with Michael Ashkin, Michael Blum, David Dixon, Simone Leigh, and Virginia Overton, Sculpture Center, New York, curated by Sarina Basta.

2008
The Puppet Show, ICA, Pennsylvania - travels to the Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (May 24 - August 9, 2008); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (September 5 – November 23, 2008); the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (January 17 – April 12, 2009) and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (May 16 – September 13, 2009)
Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, curated by Alison de Lima Greene

2007
Place of the Transcommon, Inova, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, curated by Nicholas Frank
The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, Richmond Center for the Arts at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, curated by James Yood.

2006
Hemispheric Twilight and Prayer Kneeler, Monique Meloche Gallery at the Pulse Art Fair, Miami

2005
Darker Than You, Monique Meloche Gallery at the Preview Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
Core Artist Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston

2004
Amalgama, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, curated by Paola Morsiani and Paula Newton
Project Row Houses, 24 Hour Arts and Music Festival, Houston
Apartment Series: 2, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Jeremy Boyle
The Salon Show, curated by Danny Yahav-Brown and Rachel Cook, The Salon, Houston
Core Residency Exhibiton, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2003
Ornithology, Monique Meloche, Chicago
Really Real, Gallery 312, Chicago

2002
Plat and Form: The Portable Hermetic Gallery Exhibition, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, curated by Nicholas Frank
Sculpture in Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, curated by Adam Brooks and Cory Postiglione
Meet Me in St. Louie, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery St. Louis, MO

2001
The Library Project, Temporary Services, Chicago, curated by Marc Fischer

2000
More Comfortable and Better, Dogmatic, Chicago, curated by Pedro Velez
Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee


Selected Bibliography

2009
Annette Leddy. "The Puppet Show." X-TRA, vol. 11 no. 3. Spring 2009.
Kelly Klaasmeyer. "Puppet Masters: Things get creepy at CAMH." Houston Press, Feb 24.

2008
Alan Artner. Review: Cindy Loehr. Chicago Tribune. Feb 29.
Kristin Gehrig, “On The Scene: Higher, higher!.” Chicago Journal, Vol. 8, No.
12, March 6.
Review: “Cindy Loehr: Twilight Knowledge.” Newcity, Feb 21.
The Puppet Show Catalog, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia with essays by curators Carin Kuoni, Ingrid Schaffner and contributing authors.
The Core Program 25th Anniversary catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Altoids Award Catalog, New Museum, New York.

2007
Nicholas Frank. "Where Heaven and Earth Meet." University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. catalog essay for Place of the Transcommon,

2006
BBC Radio Cafe, Interview on the Love Letter Collection, February 14.
Lisa Kurzner, "Cindy Loehr and Rachel Lowther." Art Papers, March/April 2006, page 52.
The Love Letter Collection, Japanese/English book with audio cd, Cindy Loehr and Akie Baba, Kokusaigogakusha Publishing Co., Tokyo

2005
Jerry Cullum, "Visual Arts: Sorcery, revival and war at hand," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 11.

2004
Mary Gustaitis Beyer, "Bluebird Burden." panel-house.com, (March).
Fred Camper, "Critic's Choice," Chicago Reader, (February 27): section 2 page 23.
David Fahl, "These Walls Can Talk." Houston Press, (April 14).
Michelle Grabner, "Cindy Loehr." artUS, issue 3 (June-August) pp.18-19.
Margaret Hawkins,"Bluebirds' Unusual Role Adds Poignancy to 'Burden" Chicago Sun Times, (March 5): page 23.
_____, "Less is Lots Better at Art Chicago Show." Chicago Sun Times, (May 10): Arts Section.
_____, "2004 All Comes Down to Personal Enjoyment" (Top Ten List), Chicago Sun Times, December 26, 2004.
Kristen Brooke Schleifer, "Voicemail." Mouth to Mouth, Spring/Summer: pp.45-46.
Michael Workman, "Flights of Family."  New City Chicago, (February 21): page 16.

2003
Fred Camper, Ah, Wilderness, Chicago Reader, (Aug 8): page 24.
Jenn Shreve, Cyrano at Your Lovelorn Service, Wired.com, (May).
Michael Workman, Virtually Art, NewCityChicago.(June 18).

2002
Nick Frank, "Waiting Room/Session Room." Art Papers, (Jul/Aug): page 45.
Damien Noll, "The Sublimity of Concentration," Chicago Journal, (March 2): page 45.
Lori Waxman, "Participatory Populism," New Art Examiner, (Mar/Apr): page 56.
Ginger Wolfe, "Snowman Stories" Bridge Magazine (October).

2001
Fred Camper, "Home is Where the Art Is", Chicago Social, (Jan/Feb): page 99.
Julia Marsh, "FGA is More Comfortable and Better at Dogmatic," New Art Examiner, vol. 28 no. 8/9 (May/June): page 85.

2000
Victor M. Cassidy, "Prarie Smoke," Artnet.com, (Summer)
Pedro Velez, "Cindy Loehr at Suitable," Ten by Ten, vol. 1 no.2 (January): page 47.


Public Collections

Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Bluebird Burden


Awards and Nominations

2007 Nomination, Altoids Award
2003-2005 Core Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2005 Nomination, Tiffany Award


Lectures and Presentations

2009
TICA visiting artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2008
Artist's talk and graduate critiques, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2005
We Are You, Lecture on work, Emory University, Atlanta
Artist's talk, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

2004
Amalgama gallery talk, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Artist's talk, Committee on the Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Artist's talk, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

2003
Gallery talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2001
Artist's talk, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago

Education

MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago 2000
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1994
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1990