Projects
Collaboration is an important part of my artwork. Below are projects where I worked in concord with activists, writers, poets, and other artists.
Bullseye and Glass Alliance Group Show
DeVargas Center, Santa Fe, NM, 2024-Present
Santa Fe Literary Review, 2026 Vol. 21
“Resistance: Grit, Rebellion, and Dissent“, RESIST, India Ink Drawing, pg. 34-35. Santa Fe Literary Review
Mars Is Not An Option
Save Nature Save Ourselves
Silver Linings, Fundraiser For Santa Fe Dreamers Postcard Project, SITE Santa Fe, Mixed Media On Card Stock, 5 x 11″, 2020
I Don't Poem
Abrons Arts Center, Book Launch for I Don’t Poem: An Anthology Of Painters, Poem Indian Time and Slip, 2014 by Cynthia Hartling
Fire Wheel
Fire Wheel Book Of Poems By Sharmila Voorakkarra, Cover By Cynthia Hartling
Upcoming And Recent Exhibitions
In The Thick Of It, Group Show at Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM – Sept. 17 – Oct. 14, 2026 Opening Reception Thursday September 24 from 4-6 p.m.
Splat! Contemporary Painting Show at The INDY Art Center, Churchman-Fehsenfeld + Basile Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Exhibition Dates: March 23 – May 31, 2026
Drawings on View at Pierogi Flat Files 175 North 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Paintings on View at J. Mackey Gallery 62 The Circle, East Hampton, New York 11937
Press
“The cuts Cynthia Hartling makes in her pictures suggest a need to go beyond the optical realm, implying that vision is informed as much by invisible, conceptual layers as it is by what is seen with the eyes.”
—Bernard Yenelouis, 2017/03/05 Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
“Atoms or views of distant universes emerge from an infinitely productive, dun-colored background.”
—Elizabeth Johnson, 2018/02/02 Delicious Line Inc.
“Squares pulsate with energy, in their own universe, amid sheets of tremulous color.”
—James Wylie, 2013/03/04
“Her work feels in part diaristic, as if she is working some immediate thought or emotional process out into the world.”
—Cassandra-Neyenesch, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, 2010
“The syncopated rhythms of abutting, overlapping shapes hint at the geometric jumble of cityscape, while a curling pale lavender band dominates the top—a touch of kookiness amid the tectonics.”
—Stephen Maine, artcritical, 2010/11/02
“Her use of color is ravishing and deeply personal, from pistachios, aquas, and hot oranges to deep, saturated blacks.”
—Cassandra Neyenesch, The Brooklyn Rail, 2007/03/02
“One leaves the show grateful for these nine moments of insight into Ms. Hartling’s creative process.”
—Benjamin La Rocco, artcritical, 2004/02/01
“The small group of paintings in this gallery debut bears testimony to Hartling’s subtle color
sense, which evokes weathered frescos, or illuminated manuscripts.”
—James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail, 2004/03/01
“Oil paint is subtly sculpted on the canvas, raising the plane into the viewer’s space, bridging the gap between surface and viewer.”
—A.L. McMichael, After Vasari, 2011/11/10