Cynthia Daignault (b. 1978) is an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD, and New York, NY. Daignault received a BA from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2001. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Elegy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Light Atlas, The Galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN (2018); There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017); Cynthia Daignault, White Columns, New York. NY (2012), among others. Daignault has presented exhibitions and projects at many major museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2016 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Award, a 2011 Rema Hort Foundation Award, and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Daignault just released a 400-page monograph, Light Atlas, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., and featuring new essays by Alexander Nemerov, David Campany, and the artist.
