RESUME

Born 1966, New York City, NY. Lives and works in New York City and Sullivan County, NY

EDUCATION
1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1995 MFA, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
1993 Studio Semester, Empire State College, CUNY, New York, NY
1988 BA, Honors in Art, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2025 The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY, Studio Member
2023-24 PS122 Studio Program, New York, NY, Residency
2023 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, Residency
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, Residency
2003 Research Grant, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2002 NYFA Fellowship (Painting), New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1999 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter, Dalasen, Norway, Residency
1998 BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access Television)/Rotunda Gallery Residency
1997 Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship
1997 W. K. Rose Fellowship for the Creative Arts, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1997 MacDowell Residency Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1995 Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship
1993 Leon Golub Scholarship

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Tail of the Cosmos, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
2024 Through the Summer Garden, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2024 Anxious Nature, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
2023 Transcendental Meditation, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY (two-person with Susan Rowe Harrison)
2005 Niagara, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Somewhere, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
2001 Tropicalia, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Homestead, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York, NY
1998 Plastic Replicating Garden, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
1998 Looking-Glass House, Thread Waxing Space Project Room, New York, NY
1998 Recent Paintings, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Thicket, Overlap Gallery, Newport, RI 
2024 Of Flesh and Bones, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
2024 How Did We Get Here?, Artport Kingston with the Ely Center, Kingston NY
2024 Reshaping Abstraction, Concord Arts, Concord, MA
2024 Counterpointe 11, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY (dance performance)
2024 Orwell’s Garden II, Orwell’s Garden/High Desert Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Mirror Milk, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
2023 A Light Exists in Spring, Birdhouse Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Triacontagon: 30 Years of the Artists’ Fellowship Program, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Repositioning Landscape, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2006 New Work, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2005 Into the Woods, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 The Reality Show, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
2005 Wasteland, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Decipher: Hand Painted Digital, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Exposition Collective, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2004 Global Priority, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Reality and Fiction: Reconstructing Representation, Jamaica Center for Arts, Jamaica, NY
2003 Fendi/New Group Party Auction, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2003 On and Off the Wall: The NYFA Fellows, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourge, New York, NY
2003 After Matisse/Picasso, MoMa PS1, Queens, NY
2002 Pausing to Shift, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2002 On Perspective, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Lion, on display in conjunction with Eternal Egypt, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001 In My Mind’s Eye: My thoughts light fires in your cities, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Painting/Not Painting, White Columns, New York, NY
2000 Insites, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
2000 Reality Bytes: The Look Mediated by the Media, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
1999 Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY
1999 And on a Lighter Note…, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York, NY
1999 Bi Design, Contemporary Art Collective at The Art Factory, Las Vegas, NV
1998 Summer Show, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1998 New Visions ’98: Under Construction, Gen Art, New York, NY
1997 Invited, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2007 From Earth to Sky, Myrtle and Wyckoff Avenue Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY, Commissioned by Arts for Transit, MTA
2007 Tuscan Pastoral, The Siena, Montclair, NJ, Commissioned by Herod and the Township of Montclair
2000 Garden in a School: Impressions of Jackson Heights, I.S. 230, Jackson Heights, NY, Commissioned by NYC Bd. of Ed. & NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art
2000 Garden Reverie, Palladium at CityPlace, West Palm Beach, Florida, Commissioned by the Palladium Co.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
B. Amore. “Reshaping Abstraction.” Art New England, March/April, 2024.
Concord Art. Reshaping Abstraction. March, 2024. Catalog
Annmarie Schuetz. “Currents, Spring is Beautiful.” The River Reporter, March 21-27, 2024.
Meagan J. Meehan. “Artist Cadence Giersbach Collaborates with Choreographer Chloe Brown for Norte Maar’s CounterPointe 11.” Brooklyn Downtown Star, February 29, 2024.
Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres. New York’s Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts and Design. New York: The Monicelli Press, 2014.
Lee Scharf. “Repositioning The Landscape”. Westport Minuteman, February 7, 2008.
Business Briefs. The Montclair Times, June 13, 2007.
Joelle L. Quartini. “Siena Open House.” The New York Blade, June 8, 2007.
Phil Guie. “New Terminal Brings Brooklyn and Queens Together.” Queens Ledger, April 26, 2007.
Marvin Heiferman (ed.). City Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program. New York: Merrell, 2005. p.196.
Tony Adler. “Nature Denatured.” Chicago Reader, November 11, 2005.
Talk of the Town. The New Yorker, April 11, 2005.
Sheila Pepe. “The Immediacy of Niagara.” Gay City News. Vol. IV, Issue 13. Mar 31-Ap 1, 2005.
Mary Hrbacek. “Cadence Giersbach, Roebling Hall.” The New York Art World. April, 2005.
Yasufumi Nakamori. Decipher: Hand Painted Digital. 2005. Brochure.
Lisa Curtis. “Pen, ink, mouse.” The Brooklyn Paper. Jan, 22, 2005.
Jennifer McGregor. Pausing to Shift. 2002. Brochure
Leah Ollman. “Dots and Dabs That Cast a Spell” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2002.
Walter Robinson. “Miami Sun,” ArtNet Magazine, December 19, 2001
Simon Watson. Pioneering Sprit: Colbert Art Walk 2001. 2001. Brochure
Tobias Ostrander. Operativo. 2001. Catalog
Cuauhtémoc Medina. “Nueva Óptica con Sólo un Ojo,” Reforma, Mexico City, Sept. 5, 2001.
Gregory Williams. “Flux Interior.” Interior Design, August 2001. Vol. 72. No. 10.
Holland Cotter. “Art Guide,” The New York Times, May 4, 2001.
Gregory Williams. “New York Critics Picks,” Artforum Online, May 2, 2001.
Tamsen Greene. “Painting reborn at NYC exhibit,” Columbia Daily Spectator, March 28, 2001.
Kim Levin. “Lock and Load: Spring Arts Preview,” The Village Voice, February 27, 2001.
Joel Engelhardt. “CityPlace: Architect’s 5 Favorite Places” The Palm Beach Post, October 24, 2000.
William Zimmer. “Art: When Daily Life is Examined Closely” New York Times, CT Ed. July 2, 2000.
Erin Barnett. Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art. June 2000. Catalog.
Ellen Siefermann. Reality Bytes: The Look Mediated by the Media. Brochure April 2000.
Kim Levin. “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, December 15-21, 1999.
Paul Laster. “Brooklyn Spice,” ArtNet Magazine, October 19, 1999.
Kim Levin. “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, October 20, 1998.
Martha Schwendener. “Cadence Giersbach + Noritosi Hirakawa,” Time Out New York, Oct. 18, 1998.
Kevin Conley. The New Yorker, October 5, 1998.
Ken Johnson. “Art Guide,” The New York Times, October 2, 1998.
Edith Newhall. “Fall Preview,” New York Magazine, September 14, 1998.
George Melrod. “Studio City” Swing, June 1998.
Kevin Conley. The New Yorker, October 6, 1997.

SELECTED TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST
2006-2007 Visiting Faculty, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2005 Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2002-2004 Assistant Professor of Painting, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

ARTIST TALKS
Elisabeth Condon, interviewer. “Cadence Giersbach at Satchel Projects” June, 2025
Valerie Mansi, interviewer. “Cadence Giersbach at DVAA” Radio Catskill WJEFF, April, 2024
Cadence Giersbach Artist Talk at Lake George Arts Project, July, 2024
Paddy Johnson, host. Art Problems, What to Focus on When You Have Limited Time: An Interview with Cadence Giersbach, Episode 46. January 31, 2024
Robyn Love, host. Small Things Brought Together, Season 4, Episode 3: Cadence Giersbach. December 6, 2022