Cindy Wright is an artist who was born in Herentals, Belgium on November 29, 1972. She earned a Master in the Visual Arts (painting) from the

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in 1996 and a laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp in 2006. She currently lives and works in

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. She is best known for her large-scale paintings with a macabre twist, often described as

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. ''Untitled (Self-portrait)'' from 2008, in the collection of the

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, demonstrates the artist's gritty, non-idealized style. The

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(Los Angeles), the Het Museum van Elsene (Brussels, Belgium), the

, the Las Vegas Art Museum, the

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(Madison, Wisconsin), the

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(California), and the

are among the public collections holding work by Cindy Wright.The artist’s website
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Bibliography

* Lumpkin, Libby, ''Cindy Wright, Paintings 2004-2006'', Las Vegas Art Museum, 2006. * Mark Moore Gallery, ''Cindy Wright'', Antwerp, Mark Moore Gallery, 2009.

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External links

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Cindy Wright in AskArt.com
1972 births Photorealist artists People from Herentals Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century Belgian painters 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century Belgian painters 21st-century American women painters Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni {{US-painter-stub