Cynthia Connolly

Cynthia Connolly is a photographer, curator, letterpress printer and artist who lives in Arlington, Virginia. She graduated from both the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and Auburn University’s Rural Studio, worked for Dischord Records, and booked an avant-garde performance venue, d.c. space. In 1988 she published Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–86) through her independent press Sun Dog Propaganda. Internationally shown and a prolific artist, her photographic work, postcards, and books were exhibited in Beautiful Losers in the United States and Europe from 2004–2009 establishing herself as a pioneer in DIY culture. Her artwork is in private collections including those of Michael Stipe, Jem Cohen, Nick Hornby, Gary Hustwit, and Ian Mackaye as well as the The J. Paul Getty Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Smithsonian Museum of American History, and American University Museum at the Katzen. As Special Projects Curator for Arlington, Virginia, she launched the Arlington Art Truck with a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 2018. The Arlington Art Truck brings curated short interactive artist designed projects to open public spaces. She has been curator for Arlington for nearly twenty years and continues to search the world both as curator and artist to connect disparate places, people, and things.

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