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Anthony Cudahy weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons and personal photographs to explore themes of queer identity and tenderness. His evocative figurative paintings and drawings are informed by extensive historical research. They negotiate feelings of loneliness, isolation, desire, and safety through the lens of the artist’s own autobiographical narratives and crafted mythologies.
In 1961 Henri Lefebvre wrote in his Critique of the Everyday Life, “Everyday life does not exist as a generality.” Cudahy’s paintings are exemplary in illustrating this argument. His figures read magazines or scroll through their phones in domestic interiors, brush shoulders or clasp hands in passing, converse in crowds, crouch in unmarked spaces, and lay idly among floral fields or wrinkled sheets. They face away from the viewer, their eyes casting longing glances in directions outside of the composition. Lit by glowing cyan, rose, violet, or teal hues they have the pulsing energy of a ritual moment both in action and already retired to history.
Erotic, somber, celebratory, and private, these are not moments of anonymous mundanity but scenes of the specific extraordinary-ness produced within the everyday. Cudahy often begins with collages and sketches from his photo-references, finding inspiration in a variety of vernacular queer photo archives or his own great uncle Kenny Gardener’s extensive photo collection archived by his partner Ian Lewandowski. Moving through a variety of iterations from these vignettes, he generates compositions through acute attention to color and mark-making, sustaining a commitment to the mediums he uses as they guide the final works.
In 1961 Henri Lefebvre wrote in his Critique of the Everyday Life, “Everyday life does not exist as a generality.” Cudahy’s paintings are exemplary in illustrating this argument. His figures read magazines or scroll through their phones in domestic interiors, brush shoulders or clasp hands in passing, converse in crowds, crouch in unmarked spaces, and lay idly among floral fields or wrinkled sheets. They face away from the viewer, their eyes casting longing glances in directions outside of the composition. Lit by glowing cyan, rose, violet, or teal hues they have the pulsing energy of a ritual moment both in action and already retired to history.
Erotic, somber, celebratory, and private, these are not moments of anonymous mundanity but scenes of the specific extraordinary-ness produced within the everyday. Cudahy often begins with collages and sketches from his photo-references, finding inspiration in a variety of vernacular queer photo archives or his own great uncle Kenny Gardener’s extensive photo collection archived by his partner Ian Lewandowski. Moving through a variety of iterations from these vignettes, he generates compositions through acute attention to color and mark-making, sustaining a commitment to the mediums he uses as they guide the final works.
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b. 1989 in Fort Myers, FL (US)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)
Solo Exhibitions
2022
A pearl caught between my teeth, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Coral Room, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Burn Across The Breeze, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Moon Sets A Knife, Semiose, Paris (FR)
2020
Flames, Semiose, Paris (FR)
2018
Night Paintings, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Gathering, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2016
NARSOLIPS, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
EatF_3, Mumbo’s Outfit, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY (US)
2015
The Fourth Part of the Day, Farewell Books, Austin, TX (US)
2014
Heaven Inside, Uprise Art Outpost, Chelsea, New York, NY (US)
Two-Person Exhibitions
2019
Interior, with Polina Barskaya, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Pale Horse, with Jenna Beasley, Mulherin, Toronto, ON (CA)
2015
Anthony Cudahy/Nick Van Zanten, with Nick Van Zanten, the Dawn Hunter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Group Exhibitions
2022
PERIPHERIES, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Under my Skin Part II, Campeche Gallery, Mexico City (MX)
Painters Painter Painters, curated by Bailey Summers, Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX (US)
I is Other, Lyles & King, New York, NY (US)
2021
Equal Affections, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
It Was Dark in His Arms, with Ian Lewandowski and Kenny Gardner, Deli Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Friend Zone, curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York, NY (US)
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (US)
2020
Intimate Companions, organized by Joe Sheftel, Provincetown Arts Society, Provincetown, MA (US)
If on a winter’s night a traveller, Mamoth, London (UK)
The Moon Seemed Lost, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2019
TULIPS, Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA (US)
GIVE IT TO ME GOOD, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
THEM, Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Circle Game, part of Stonewall 50/50, curated by Bill Arnig, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Summer Soup, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY (US)
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library, Blake and Vargas, Berlin (DE)
A Little Tenderness, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO (US)
Personal Spaces, Danese/Corey, New York, NY (US)
2018
Sweet Cheeks, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Greenpoint Group Show, Harpy Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY (US)
Moments of Intimacy, with Doron Langberg and Kyle Coniglio, 68 projects, Berlin (DE)
Me, My Friends & I, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Bathers, Bass & Reiner, San Fransisco, CA (US)
Metaxis Uber Pool, HildeTX, Houston, TX (US)
2017
Visible Scene, Practice, New York, NY (US)
LOST IN THE WORLD, Mulherin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
CUDAHY/ FRATINO/ GLANTZ, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford, NJ (US)
2016
Everything Real, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR (US)
WILL YOU, Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Plusachange, St.Josephs College, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Bindle, curated by Sorry Archive, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Public/Private/Portrait, Mossless 4 release, Deli Gallery, L.I.C., New York, NY (US)
2015
BLOOMSDAY, the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY (US)
Say It With Flowers, Kimberly-Klark Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (US)
2014
A Faintly Lit Light, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, Brooklyn, NY (US)
And the Villagers Never Liked You Anyways, Sorry Archive at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY (US)
Still Wearing Each Other When Alone, Vox Populi, Phillidephia, PA (US)
ANOTHER, Oranbeg Press, South Street Seaport, New York, NY (US)
HIGH TIDE, Dossier Outpost, New York, NY (US)
Nothing But Good Live, Park-Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg (NL)
“What Is the Silver Lining?”, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2013
Hot Bed, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
The Pink Panther Imitates Nothing, RISD, Providence, RI (US)
CONTENT, ARTICA, Athens, GA (US)
Blonds, SOFTSPOT, SAXA, online
2012
13A, MOStudios, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Disaster 501: What Happened to Man?, Copenhagen Art Festival Permanent Collection Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Dream Continuum, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX (US)
Selected Collections
The Hort Family Collection, New York, NY (US)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (US)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pressac (FR)
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)
Solo Exhibitions
2022
A pearl caught between my teeth, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Coral Room, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Burn Across The Breeze, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Moon Sets A Knife, Semiose, Paris (FR)
2020
Flames, Semiose, Paris (FR)
2018
Night Paintings, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Gathering, The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2016
NARSOLIPS, Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
EatF_3, Mumbo’s Outfit, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY (US)
2015
The Fourth Part of the Day, Farewell Books, Austin, TX (US)
2014
Heaven Inside, Uprise Art Outpost, Chelsea, New York, NY (US)
Two-Person Exhibitions
2019
Interior, with Polina Barskaya, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Pale Horse, with Jenna Beasley, Mulherin, Toronto, ON (CA)
2015
Anthony Cudahy/Nick Van Zanten, with Nick Van Zanten, the Dawn Hunter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Group Exhibitions
2022
PERIPHERIES, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Under my Skin Part II, Campeche Gallery, Mexico City (MX)
Painters Painter Painters, curated by Bailey Summers, Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX (US)
I is Other, Lyles & King, New York, NY (US)
2021
Equal Affections, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
It Was Dark in His Arms, with Ian Lewandowski and Kenny Gardner, Deli Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Friend Zone, curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York, NY (US)
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (US)
2020
Intimate Companions, organized by Joe Sheftel, Provincetown Arts Society, Provincetown, MA (US)
If on a winter’s night a traveller, Mamoth, London (UK)
The Moon Seemed Lost, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2019
TULIPS, Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA (US)
GIVE IT TO ME GOOD, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
THEM, Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Circle Game, part of Stonewall 50/50, curated by Bill Arnig, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Summer Soup, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, NY (US)
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library, Blake and Vargas, Berlin (DE)
A Little Tenderness, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO (US)
Personal Spaces, Danese/Corey, New York, NY (US)
2018
Sweet Cheeks, Big Pictures, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Greenpoint Group Show, Harpy Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY (US)
Moments of Intimacy, with Doron Langberg and Kyle Coniglio, 68 projects, Berlin (DE)
Me, My Friends & I, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Bathers, Bass & Reiner, San Fransisco, CA (US)
Metaxis Uber Pool, HildeTX, Houston, TX (US)
2017
Visible Scene, Practice, New York, NY (US)
LOST IN THE WORLD, Mulherin Gallery, New York, NY (US)
CUDAHY/ FRATINO/ GLANTZ, Harpy Gallery, Rutherford, NJ (US)
2016
Everything Real, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR (US)
WILL YOU, Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Plusachange, St.Josephs College, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Bindle, curated by Sorry Archive, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Public/Private/Portrait, Mossless 4 release, Deli Gallery, L.I.C., New York, NY (US)
2015
BLOOMSDAY, the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY (US)
Say It With Flowers, Kimberly-Klark Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (US)
2014
A Faintly Lit Light, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, Brooklyn, NY (US)
And the Villagers Never Liked You Anyways, Sorry Archive at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY (US)
Still Wearing Each Other When Alone, Vox Populi, Phillidephia, PA (US)
ANOTHER, Oranbeg Press, South Street Seaport, New York, NY (US)
HIGH TIDE, Dossier Outpost, New York, NY (US)
Nothing But Good Live, Park-Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg (NL)
“What Is the Silver Lining?”, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2013
Hot Bed, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (US)
The Pink Panther Imitates Nothing, RISD, Providence, RI (US)
CONTENT, ARTICA, Athens, GA (US)
Blonds, SOFTSPOT, SAXA, online
2012
13A, MOStudios, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Disaster 501: What Happened to Man?, Copenhagen Art Festival Permanent Collection Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Dream Continuum, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX (US)
Selected Collections
The Hort Family Collection, New York, NY (US)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (US)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pressac (FR)
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN)
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