Originally from Chicago, Penny Cagney lives in Santa Cruz, CA and Tempe, AZ.

Education

  • M.F.A., Studio Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021

  • M.A., Arts, Entertainment & Media Management, Columbia College, Chicago, 1988

  • B.F.A., magna cum laude, Loyola University, Chicago, 1978

Select Exhibitions

  • Repute, Los Angeles Art Association, 2024

  • Self, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2023

  • Thresholds in Parameters of What it is to Be… California State University, Fresno, CA, 2023

  • Art in the Time of Corona, Vol. 3, Dama Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022-23

  • Across an Impossible Distance, two-person exhibition with Rachael Zur, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix College, AZ, 2023

  • Curators Pick, Women United Art Magazine, Vol. I, October 2022

  • Face to Face, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, 2022

  • Parting Gifts, two-person exhibition with Rachael Zur, Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA, 2022

  • MFA thesis exhibition, Site Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021

  • Artlink 21st annual exhibition, Phoenix, AZ, 2021

  • Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 47 p 28, April 2021

  • Crisis Mode, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, 2020

  • Salon 48, Phoenix, AZ, 2020

  • Senses, New City Studio, Phoenix, AZ, 2017

  • Arizona Artists Guild, statewide juried competition, Glendale, AZ 2014

Prior to 2010:

  • Noctiluca Gallery, Chicago

  • MoMing Arts and Dance Center, Chicago

  • Loyola University, Chicago, solo B.F.A. exhibition

Publications

Art in the Time of Corona, Vol. 3, Dabster Arts, Inc., January, 2024

Residencies

18th Street Arts Center Visiting Artist, Santa Monica, CA, November 2023

Gallery/Curatorial Experience

  • Vorpal Gallery, Chicago

  • Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago

  • Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago

Select Academic Experience

  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Arts Management, American University, Cairo, Egypt

Adjunct Professor:

  • Graduate Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Program, Columbia College, Chicago

  • Graduate Arts Administration Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Select Previous Memberships

• Arizona Costume Institute Board, Phoenix Art Museum

• Chicago Academy for the Arts, Creative Council Board

• The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Board

• New Group Board Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago