Cecilia Charlton American, b. 1985

Cecilia Charlton

b. 1985, Corning, New York, USA

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2018 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London UK

2015 BFA Painting, Hunter College, New York NY

Exhibitions

2024 Revival, Cambridge's Painted Church, Cambridge UK

2024 Colours Uncovered, Harewood House, Leeds UK 

2024 COLLECT art fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK

2023 Positions: Part Two, Alma Pearl Gallery, London UK

2023 Summer Exhibition, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK

2023 Altered Sites: On Psychedelic Architecture, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation

2023 Memory Garden, Garden Museum, London UK (solo)

2023 COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK

2023 Syzygy, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo)

2022 COLLECT Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, Somerset House, London UK

2022 Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open, Jerwood Arts (London), Newlyn Art Gallery (Penzance), Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen) -- touring exhibition

2021 Mammoth Loop, SPACE Ilford, London UK (solo)

2021 Love Token, Robert Young Antiques, London UK (solo)

2021 Folk Art, London Art Fair Platform section, Candida Stevens Gallery, London UK

2020 Aurora, Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester UK (solo)

2020 when you make sense I feel, curated by Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK

2019 Parade, curated by Kris Day, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City UK

2019 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London UK

2019 Tender Touches, curated by Huma Kabakci & Ines Neto dos Santos, AMP Gallery, London UK

2019 Grid: Preset, Blyth Gallery, London UK

2018 FAKERS, curated by Cypher Collective, Thamesside Gallery, London UK

2018 Lifeline as Medium, 532 Gallery, NYC USA

2018 Rogue Objects, University College of London, London UK

2018 RCA MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London UK

2018 SURGE, the East Wing Biennial, Courtauld Institute, London UK

2018 Living Room, Safehouse 1 & 2, London UK

2018 Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London UK

2018 An Audience of Echoes, Hockney Gallery, London UK

2018 Rubber-chew // Clink, adieu, Unit 1 Gallery, London UK

2017 RCA WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London UK

2016 The Abstraction of Continents / The Continent of Abstraction, Lychee One Gallery, London UK

2016 Thunder Umbrella, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT

2015 BFA / THESIS, Hunter College, New York NY

Awards

2023 a-n Artist Company artist bursary

2022 Brookfield Properties Craft Prize, short-listed

2021 Jerwood Art Fund Maker's Open

2020 Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award, short-listed

2016 Fulbright UK Open Award, short-listed

2015 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center

2015 Andy and Marsha Glazer Painting Award, Art of the Northeast Exhibition

2015 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College

2014 Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship, Yale University

2014 Kossak Painting Fellowship, Hunter College

2010 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA

2009 Strategic Opportunities Stipend, NYFA

2009 Bob Tichane Endowment for the Arts, Corning Community College

Commissions

2022 Bloom Nine Elms (Double Decker)

2022 London School of Economics (Artiq)

2021 SPACE Ilford (sponsored by Mercers Charitable Foundation)

2021 Bart's Health NHS Trust (Vital Arts)

2021 Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open (Jerwood Arts)

2018 Cunard Line (Double Decker)

Public Collections

London School of Economics

Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

Barts Health NHS Trust

Residencies

2024 West Dean College Artist-in-Residence, Sussex UK (forthcoming)

2023 Verpejos, Kabeliai Lithuania

2022 Villa Lena, Tuscany Italy

2017 RUD AIR, Laxarby Sweden

2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT

2015 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi Finland

2014 Yale Norfolk School of Music & Art, Norfolk CT

Workshops

2024 Bargello workshop, bargello workshop, Cambridge's Painted Church, Cambridge UK

2023 Memory Garden, bargello workshops and weaving demos, London Craft Week, Garden Museum, London UK

2023 75th Anniversary of the NHS, bargello workshop, Wellcome Museum, London UK

2022 Youth Workshop, bargello workshop with secondary school students, Jerwood Arts, London UK 

2022 Workshop series at Villa Lena, bargello and darning workshops, Villa Lena Artist Residency, Tuscany Italy

2022 COSMOS, bargello workshop with selection of readings, Jerwood Arts, London UK

2021 Mammoth Loop: A stitch in time, a series of 15 textile workshops with local seniors, SPACE Ilford, London UK

2021 Bargello Bonanza!, bargello workshop, Robert Young Antiques, London UK

2019 Fruits of Origin: Thinking and Talking Beyond Embroidery, crewel workshop, AMP Gallery, London UK

2018 Sewing Circle: Stitching and the Fabric of Conversation, crewel workshop, UCL Art Museum, London UK

Publications / Press 

2024 The Londonist 

2024 Ateliers d'Art 

2023 FX Magazine 

2023 FT Weekend 

2023 El País

2023 Crafts Magazine, artist feature

2023 Sotheby's Reside

2023 The Times

2023 artnet, review

2023 The Protagonist Magazine, review

2022 The Courtauldian, review

2022 Effect Magazine, review

2022 The Guardian

2022 The Design Edit, review

2022 Kinship + Craft interview

2022 hole & corner interview

2021 Embroidery Magazine interview

2020 Art Fictions podcast

2020 Tender Touches

2020 Festival of Quilts Magazine

2020 this is tomorrow

2019 Vogue UK

2019 FAD Magazine

2019 Sixth Finch

2018 Young Space Interview

2016 Front Art Space, OPEN16

2016 New American Paintings, Northeast #122

Curation

2019  A RAW GARDEN, Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK

2018  LEGS, Pinch Project, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK

2018  Copernicus & Galileo, Pinch Project Space, London UK

2018 Plants People Pots [an invitation], Pinch Project Space, London UK