Gallery Talk: Cynthia Daignault with Jeffrey De Blois on Cynthia Daignault: Valley

Daignault received a BA in Art and Art History from Stanford University. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; and more. Her work is held in several public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Dallas Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and a 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.

At the ICA for ten years, De Blois has been a member of the curatorial team on more than 30 exhibitions and 10 catalogues, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Caitlin Keogh, Tau Lewis, and Tammy Nguyen. He also organized solo shows with artists Carolina Caycedo, Sara Cwynar, Raúl de Nieves, and Rose B. Simpson, among others. Recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas, and Believers: Artists and the Shakers, which considered how artists derive inspiration from the Shakers.