Projects

Collaboration is an important part of my artwork. Here are some examples of 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, 2024 Vol. 19

“Lovely, Dark, and Deep: Journeys Real and Imagined”, Detail: Figure Drawing, India Ink wash on paper, 18” x 24” p. 80-81

Mars Is Not An Option

Postcards From The Edge, Parlor, LA 2020 – Mail Art Project and Postcards For Democracy, Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe’s Collective Art Campaign

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

Recent Exhibitions

Recent awards, talks and locations where my work may be seen.

Splat! Contemporary Painting Show at The INDY Art Center, Churchman-Fehsenfeld + Basile Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Exhibition Dates: March 23 – May 31, 2026

PIEROGI Flat Files on the road hosted by Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary

Opening Reception: 18 April 5–7p.m. and runs until September 2026 at Mana Contemporary,

888 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07306

Juneteenth Group Exhibition honoring Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” at Gallery One’s Satellite Gallery, Albuquerque Exhibition Dates: June 12 – July 17, 2025 ww w.cabq.gov/galleryone

Anthology: Contemporary Narrative Art from the Lise Curry Collection at Pace University Art Gallery –a faculty/student-curated group exhibition celebrating the generous bequest of more than 200 works of art from collector Lise Curry. Exhibition Dates: June 6 – September 13, 2025

Spring Group Show At G2 Gallery, April 11-June 21, 2025, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 505.982.1212

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

Reviews of my work.

“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