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 Cindy Wagner Resume

Cindy Wagner acquired her love and skills for painting as a teen while working with her dad creating sets for the movies, the NYC ballet and theater. The Artists at Variety Scenic Studios were her first teachers and mentors. Her Dancing Through Life series was inspired by her time at Variety. Cindy’s paintings depict life’s moments, real people and places. She graduated SUNY at Buffalo with knowledge of human anatomy and a degree in Physical Therapy. She continued studying art at Silvermine School of Art and with individual master artists. She is Past Chairman of the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Juried Member of the Salmagundi Club, Juried member of Oil Painters of America, and The Westport Artist Collective. Cindy is on the Board if Governors of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club. Cindy is a member of the Board Town of Weston Commission for the Arts. She currently teaches painting and drawing at several locations in Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and universities. She is the recipient of several awards including 2022 Connecticut Society of Portrait Artist Faces and Figures, 2020 Mixmaster at the Mattatuck Museum CT Visitor Award, 2017 Southport Portrait Festival Painting Award and Jurors Award, and Honorable Mention 2019 Dreams Juried Exhibition Rene Soto Gallery CT. 

Publicity and Press

2022 Close To Home And Heart Works of Cindy Wagner  Hamlet Hub

2013 February Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine Article  “In The Chair: Sitting for a Portrait”

2009 Winter Edition Norwalk Plus Faces of Fairfield At Lockwood Mansion Museum

2009 March  The Lyme Times The Art of the Portrait

Exhibits and Events

2024 CLWAC Small Works Exhibit

2024 Salmagundi Small Works Exhibit

2023 CLWAC Juried Open Exhibit

2022 CT Society of Portrait Artist Faces and Figures Exhibit Honorable Mention Award

2022 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 125 Juried Exhibit Salmagundi Club 

2022 ArtWalk Ridgefield Guild of Artists at the Dance Conservatory of Ridgefield

2022 Featured Artist RPAC Gallery Ridgefield CT

2021 International Guild Of Realism Spring Salon

2021 77Th Annual CT Juried Show Slater Museum

2020 Mixmaster Juried Exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum, CT Visitor Award

2020 Catharine  Lorillard Wolf 123 Annual Open Juried Exhibition

2019 Dreams Juried Exhibition Rene Soto Gallery, CT  Honorable Mention Award

2019 CT Women Artist Open Juried Show at The Slater Museum, CT

2019 Face Time Bendheim Gallery Greenwich CT

2019 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 122 Annual Juried exhibition at New York Arts Club

2019 Westport Artist Collective Studio Tour

2018 Salmagundi 40th Annual Painting, Sculpting and Graphic Open Exhibition NYC

2017 Southport Portrait Festival - CT Society of Portrait Artist Painting Award and S. Wakeen Award

2017 Westport Art Center Pop Up Show

2017 Weston Open Studio Tour

2016 Tribute to Mother's Cos Cob Greenwich

2015 Childhood Portraits Stepping Stones Museum

2014 UConn Gallery Faces of Winter Exhibit

2013 February Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine “In The Chair:Sitting for a Portrait” 

2013 Max’s Art Supply Westport CT

2012 Faces of Winter UConn Gallery

2011 Lyme Art Association Faces of Spring

2010 New Haven Open Studio Tour

2010 UnConn Art Gallery Stamford Faces of Winter 

2009 Lockwood Mansion Museum Faces of Fairfield County

2008 Crest Gallery Solo Art Show

2008 Bendheim Gallery Greenwich CT

2007  Connecticut Pastel Society National Exhibit

2007 Westport Fine Art Show

2006 Crest Gallery Solo Art Show

2006 Lyme Art Association The Art of the Portrait

2006 Weston Public Library

2003 Geary Gallery 

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