Term: July – December 2018
Stipendiary of the School of Visual Arts New York.
Brooklyn based artist Cassidy Clingman uses her upbringing in South Florida as a springboard for the concepts driving her photographic and sculptural works. Most commonly using the images and ideas of swimming pools to explore the function of memory; the way in which memories can flood, be submerged, and become unclear in contrast to the clarity of the objects above the surface. This has also extended into an exploration of beaches, tourism, and overarching themes of the tropical continuing to investigate the concepts of memory as well as leisure and optics. Each resulting piece plays with the representational, the abstract, and the functional.
EDUCATION
2013 – 2017
BFA, Visual and Critical Studies at School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
EXHIBITIONS
2017
WAY TO GO: Flatiron Project Space
Group exhibition curated by Suzanne Joelson
THE THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE: Flatiron Project Space
Group exhibition curated by Annette Wehrhahn and Emily Weiner
WASH INSIDE OUT: VCS Open Studios
Group exhibition curated by Cassidy Clingman, Caitlin Ladd, Zhiwei Chen, and Jennifer Soowon Choung
2016
RETREAT EMERGE: VCS Open Studios
Group exhibition curated by Chaerin Ahn
2015
BCC: VCS Open Studios
Group exhibition curated by Chaerin Ahn
2014
Fiber Arts (Selected Works): VCS Open Studios
Group exhibition curated by Amy Wilson
AWARDS & GRANTS
2018
Leipzig International Art Programme Residency
2017
Graduation with “High Honors”, School of Visual Arts
2013 – 2017
Dean’s List accreditation, School of Visual Arts
2013 – 2017
Silas H. Rhodes Merit Scholarship Recipient
