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