About

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Cynthia Back currently lives in Portugal.  She is a printmaker and painter who has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Escola Secundária Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Galerie de Exposições do Espaço Turismo in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal in 2023, The Studios of Key West, Florida in 2021, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C. in 2019, 2017 and 2016, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA in 2015, Pennswood Art Gallery, Newtown, PA in 2014, Galerie Pascal, Suchitoto, El Salvador in 2012, the Fireside Gallery, Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA, in 2011 and at Abington Art Center, Abington, PA in 2010.

 Ms. Back is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in 2019, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation in 2009 and 2005, Puffin Foundation in 2003, Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1996; residencies to Galleri Heike Arndt, Kettinge, Denmark in 2021, The Studios at Key West in 2019, The Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway in 2016, Women’s Studio Workshop in 2014, Blue Mountain Center in 2013, Acadia National Park in 2009; and fellowships to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ltd., Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1997 and 1999, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain in 2000, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in 2000, The Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, Ireland in 1999, and The MacDowell Colony in 1994. Her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections, including The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library, the Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and The New-York Historical Society.

Ms. Back received her B.F.A. at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and St. Martin’s School of Art (post-graduate certificate) in London, England.

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