b. 1989, Montreal, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, US
Cindy Phenix's paintings feature fragmented figures and monstrous creatures that inhabit flat, kaleidoscopic surfaces. Her paintings are charged with a rawness produced by an ambiguous approach to narrative and a fractal, unfinished approach to representing the subjects of her paintings. Characters with mutable bodies undefined by gender appear throughout Phenix’s compositions. Appearing to piece themselves together from aggregated painterly gestures, these monsters become figures of power and personal freedom through their abjection.
Cindy Phenix (b. 1989, Montreal, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, US) completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal in 2016 and her MFA at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 2020. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery, UK; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Brussels; Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal; and Maison de la culture de Longueuil, Longueil. Group exhibitions include 6018 North, Chicago; Centre Clark, Montreal; and Centre Wellington, Montreal, among others. Phenix’s works are included in the collections of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Quebec, BLG, and Hyrdo-Québec.