Cynthia Camlin
Visiting Assistant Professor
Cynthia Camlin recently joined the faculty at WVU as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Painting. She studied painting as a post-baccalaureate student at Yale University and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Previously she received a BA from Duke University in English Literature and Art and an MA from the University of Virginia in Religious Studies. Represented by dBerman Gallery in Austin, Texas, Camlin¹s work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Austin Museum of Art and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, Texas, the Selby and Crossley Galleries at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, the Marsh Gallery at the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, and Kipps Gallery at Indiana University, Indiana, Pennsylvania. In 2003 she was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. In 2006 she was awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship for a residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
From 2001 to 2004 Camlin was the founding Director of Creative Research Laboratory, an off-campus exhibition and studio laboratory space of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Organizing 35 exhibitions and related educational programs, she also taught studio courses in the Department of Art and Art History. In 2004-2005 she was a Visiting Artist at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.
