Exhibitions
2024 Flight of the Butterfly: Public Art, Chicago,IL, (Superior and Michigan Ave.)
Winds of Change, Waubonsee Community College , Waubonsee IL
Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts - August-October
Flowing Within the Recesses, Riverside Center for the Arts, Riverside IL, solo exhibit, Curator:Joanne Aono
2023 Beauty Amongst The Darkness, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago IL, solo exhibit
Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, group exhibit
Where We Left Off, Philadelphia and Mexico City, collaboration with Aura ArreolaCurated by: Tally de Orellana and David Ayala-Alfonso
2022 Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
Unearthing Pathways: on the way to the grocery store, Lubeznik Center For The Arts, Michigan City, IN., Curator: Lora Fosberg
Colored With Iron and Lace, Fracas Gallery, Chicago IL, Curator: Jan Christian Bernabe, PhD, solo show
Terrain Vague: The Promised Land, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, two person show with Terisita Carson
Obsolete, National Museum, Berlin, Germany, group exhibition
2021 Dream, Center Program Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL Curator: Asha Iman Veal, group exhibition
Suspended in the Realm of Possibilities, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL, solo exhibition
2020 Waking In The Shade Of The Sun, Union League Club, Chicago IL, solo exhibition
All In The Same Boat, Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago IL, group exhibition
2019 Twisting Fibers – An Art for All Reasons, Arts League, Pawtucket, RI , group exhibition
Flowers in the Garden, Southside Community Art Center, Chicago IL, group exhibition
Impact , Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL, group exhibition
2018 Domesticity, Lyseloth Musikerwohnhaus, Basel, Switzerland, collaboration with Allison Svoboda
2017 Over and Over, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago IL, Curator: Debra Kayes, group exhibitions
Waste Not, Want Not, Northeastern University, Chicago IL, 4 person exhibit with Mary Ellen Croteau, Rita Grendze and Jordan Scott
2016 RUMINATE, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago IL, 3 person show with Robin Dluzen, Allison Svoboda
Portraits, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago IL, group exhibition
2015 Permeated Surfaces, Beverly Art Center, Chicago IL, 3 person show with Sandra Perlow, Allison Svoboda
Escape- the City as Studio, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago IL, 2 person show
2014 Transformed,, Elephant Room Gallery, 2 person show with Connie Noyes
Permeated Surfaces, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 3 person show with Sandra Perlow, Allison Svoboda
Permeated Surfaces, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck MI,3 Person show with Sandra Perlow and Allison Svoboda
2013 What Comes Around Goes Around, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL, group exhibit
Sharks Are Born Swimming, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL solo exhibit
2012 Adornments -13th Inter’l Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Layers, Paths and Channels, group Hatch Projects, Chicago IL
Ways of Making Art, juried Jason Foumberg and Aaron Ott, Governors State University
This Captivating Culture, Chicago IL, Hatch Projects , 2 person show,
Pine Feather Period, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL group exhibit
2011 Simply Perfect sponsored by Patron Spirits and Chicago Arts Coalition, Chicago IL
T.A.W.G.A. (Throw Away Won’t Go Away) An Environmental Art Exhibit, Harold Washington Library, Chicago IL, solo exhibit
2010 Forget About the Future, Elephant Room Gallery Inc., Chicago.IL solo exhibit
Macy’s Department Store, Los Angeles CA
Art Here, Art Now, University of Chicago and Hyde Park Arts Alliance,
Not Just Another Pretty Face IV, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
Adornments, Museum of Contemporary Art Store, Chicago IL
2009 University of Chicago-UChiTech - Department of Intellectual Properties
Black Creativity, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago IL
2008 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
Honors
2021 3Arts Make A Wave Grantee, Chicago IL
Center Program full scholarship, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL
2020 3Arts award artist relief fund
2017 Tending Space Fellowship
2015 Ingenuity Creative Schools Grant
2012/2019 3Arts Award Nominee
2012 Ways of Making, Best of Show, Governors State University
2010 Black Creativity – Museum of Science and Industry – Honorary Mention
2009 Black Creativity – Museum of Science and Industry - Green Art Award
Residencies
2021 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Residency, Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
The Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL 2021 - 2022
2019 Hyde Park Art Center Teaching Artist Residency, Chicago IL
2018-2019 Field/Work Residency Program, Chicago Arts Coalition, Chicago IL
2018 Lyseloth Musikerwohnhaus Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2017. Mindful Meditation Residency for artist, Joshua Tree Center, Yucca CA
2015 It Takes a Village Project, Teaching Artist, Marquette School of Excellence, Chicago IL
A Baker Universe, Baker Elementary School, Wilmette IL
Community Projects
2021 - Present Tiger Strikes Asteroid - Chicago Arts Collective Network, Member
2018 -2019 Civic Futures, Ray Elementary School, Chicago IL
2018 Baobab Tree of Life-Donors Wall, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago IL
2015 Recycled Imagination, Marquette School of Excellence, Chicago ,IL
2014 Transformed Faces, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago IL
2013 Kite Flight, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
2011 Pure Imagination, Little Black Pearl, Teaching Artist Grades K-2,Chicago IL
Publications, Reviews and Links
https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/amuletos-makers-and-voices-part-i/
For a Chicago artist, Afrofuturism inspires a vision for confronting climate change |
Energy News Network https://energynews.us/2024/02/13/for-a-chicago-artist-afrofuturism-inspires-a-vision-for-confronting-climate-change/
https://art.newcity.com/2023/11/06/collective-imaginary-a-review-of-earthly-visions-inside-the-climate-crisis-at-gallery-400/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-art-exhibition-at-uic-explores-societal-responses-to-climate-change/3225527/
All Eyes On: Cydney M. Lewis – Suboart Magazine\
http://www.thevisualist.org/2022/07/cydney-lewis-colored-with-iron-and-lace/
Top V shows ,https://badatsports.com/category/theblog/
“Glass Curtain Takes on the Brain,” http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ott-see-it-now-1201-story.html
Ruminate, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago IL
Permeated Surfaces, Evanston IL
Neux Magazine, Reborn Summer 2011, “Reusable Materials as Wearable Art” pgs.138-144 http://issuu.com/neux/docs/neux_reborn
Education
1988 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Bachelors Science in Architectural Studies
1986 - 1987 L’ecole D’architecture des Versailles, France
2006 School of the Art Institute of Chicago