ANTHONY CUDAHY

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (US)

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. 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. They negotiate feelings of loneliness, isolation, desire, and safety through the lens of the artist’s own autobiographical narratives and crafted mythologies.

Anthony Cudahy completed an MFA at Hunter College, New York, NY (US) in 2020. Recent exhibitions include Fool’s errand, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Fool’s gold, Hales, New York NY (US); Like Night Needs Morning, CAP Centre d’art de Saint-Fons (FR); and Spinneret, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US) and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME (US).

Selected collections: AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (US); Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA (US); Dallas Museum of Art, TX (US); The Hort Family Collection, New York, NY (US); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (US); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pessac (FR); Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL (US); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (US); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), among others.

Courtesy GRIMM