Steven Cushner
STEVEN CUSHNER
Born 1954, Cleveland, OH
Lives & Works in Washington, DC
EDUCATION
1980 MFA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1976 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Double Down, Show No. 1, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2018 Double Down, Show No. 2, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2017 Tautology, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Over Under Sideways Down, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Cushner, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2013 Shaped Paintings 1991-1993, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2013 Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2012 Works on Paper, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2010 New Paintings, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2006 Paintings & Works on Paper, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2004 Recent Paintings, Fine Arts Galleries, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2003 Steven Cushner, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2002 New Works on Paper, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2002 Recent Paintings, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2001 Recent Paintings, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1999 Recent Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1998 Steven Cushner, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1996 Steven Cushner, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1995 Recent Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
1993 Steven Cushner: Three Paintings & Eleven Works on Paper, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1993 Recent Paintings, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1991 Recent Paintings, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 Recent Paintings, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC
1984 Recent Paintings, Artists Space, Washington, DC
1980 Recent Paintings, Mather Gallery, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 35 Days, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
The Hand Print Workshop: Twenty Years of Partnership in Print, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2016 Resonance: Robin Rose, Steven Cushner, W.C. Richardson, Lee O’Neil Gallery, Savannah, GA
2013 Represent, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2012 All My Friends Are Painters, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 The Marks of Six Painters, Gallery 447, Cambridge, MD
2010 Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum, Washington, DC
Constructs, Stanier Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (traveled to the Fine Arts Gallery at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2008, Longwood University, Longwood Center for The Visual Arts, Farmville, VA Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, 2007;)
2005 Soft Openings, The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
Re-Fresh, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2004 Earthly and Spiritual Pleasure, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2003 Abstract Painting, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Prints from the Hand Print Workshop, Washington Arts Club, Washington, DC
2001 Emotional Attachment, District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2001 Invented Objects, Imagined Spaces, Maryland Arts Place, Baltimore, MD
1999 Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients, 505 Gallery, Washington, DC
1998 Chance and Necessity, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Monoprints, Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
1995 Project/Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Repicturing Abstraction, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1994 A New Nature, McLean Gallery of Art, McLean, VA
Three Washington Artists, City Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1993 Preview, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Significant Painting, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 Hot and Cold Abstraction, Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, NC
1991 Evocative Abstraction, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Drawings, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1990 Gallery Artists, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 Gallery Artists, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 Evocative Painting, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Natural Selection, Spaces, Washington, DC
1987 Real Talent, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, DC Gallery Artists, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Ten Washington Painters, Secca, Winston-Salem, NC
1985 Evocative Abstraction, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Talent, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
The Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (also 1982, 1980, 1979)
1984 Abstraction, Secca, Winston-Salem, NC
Sited Towards the Future: Proposals for Public Sculpture, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Zones 1-5: Outdoor Sculpture Installations, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1983 Nine Washington Artists, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1982 Twenty from D.C., University of Houston, Houston, TX
1981 Approach/Avoidance: Art in the Obsessive Idiom, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1980 Emerging Washington Painters, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1979 24 Cleveland Painters, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
1978 Cleveland Painters, NOVA, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS AND HONORS
2008 Visual Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
2002 Distinguished Alumni, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1998 Visual Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
1993 Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Aspen Institute, Washington DC
Best Products, Richmond, VA
CityCenter, Washington, DC
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Wilson Building Art Collection, Washington DC
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington DC
Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Oldham & Partners /OPX, Washington DC
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood University, Farmville, VA
Ruesch International, Washington, DC
United Therapeutics, Silver Spring, MD & Research Triangle Park, NC
The Washington Post Corporation, Washington, DC
The Washington DC Convention Center
Yale University Art Gallery
Zell Partners Ltd., Washington, DC
TEACHING POSITIONS
George Mason University, adjunct faculty Fairfax, VA, 2006 - present
Corcoran School of Art, adjunct faculty Washington, DC, 1987 - present
Skopelos Foundation For The Arts Skopelos, Greece, 2003, 2006, 2007
Anderson Ranch Snowmass, Colorado, 2006 Fundacion Ciec
Betanzos, Spain, 2006, 2007
Vermont College, adjunct faculty Montpelier, VT, 1995 - 2003
Northern Virginia Community College, adjunct faculty Alexandria, Virginia, 1984 - 1990
University of Maryland, adjunct faculty College Park, Maryland, 1992 - 1993
American University, adjunct faculty Washington, DC, 1995 - 2000
Maryland Institute College of Art, visiting artist Baltimore, Maryland, 1995, 1993
Arizona State University, visiting artist Tempe, Arizona, 1993
George Mason University, visiting artist Fairfax, Virginia, 1990