Lucinda Cobley
BORN
1963 Birmingham, United Kingdom
RESIDENCE
Houston, Texas
EDUCATION
Further Education Teaching Certificate,
The Institute of Education, UCL, UK, 1996-98
PG Dip Illustration, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
University of the Arts, London, UK, 1991-93
BA (Hons) Glass Design,
North Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK, 1982-85
DATEC Diploma Art and Design,
Bournville College of Art, Birmingham, UK, 1980-82
RESIDENCIES
2007
DW2, Creative Capital Professional Development Program, NY,
in partnership with DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2004
Creative Capital Professional Development Program, NY,
in partnership with DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Colour Intervals,
Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
2017
Colour Intervals,
Goto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Matrix, site-specific installation,
University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX
2015
Gray Area: Lucinda Cobley,
Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX
2014
Variations: Structure and Surface,
Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fé, NM
2014
Sensing Lines,
Gallery Jatad, Houston, TX
2013
Sequence,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston TX
2011
Lucinda Cobley,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
2008
Vision Eclipsed,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston TX
2007
The Glass Menagerie,
Texas Repertory Theatre, Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Collective Pulse,
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2016/17
Fiction with only daylight between us,
curator: Jeffrey Courtland Jones, Corridor (divisible), Dayton, OH,
Arvid Boeckner Gallery, Heidleberg, Germany,
Angelika Studios, Buckinghamshire, U.K,
Grady Gallery at Elgin Community College, Chicago, IL,
Classroom Coventry, UK,
Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia
2016
Burning Bones Press Exhibition, curator: Sally Sprout,
Williams Tower, Houston, TX
2015
Texas Abstract: Modern and Contemporary,
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
Bakken Boom! curator: Becky Dunham, Curator,
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Texas Abstract: Modern and Contemporary,
Rudolf Blume Fine Art Artscan Gallery, Houston, TX
Impressions, Printmatters Membership Show,
HCC, Houston TX
Burning Bones Press Exhibition, curated by Designworks,
Galveston, TX
2014
Texas Abstract: Modern and Contemporary,
Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fé, NM
PrintHouston: Next, A Biennial of Contemporary Prints,
juror: Yizhak Elyashiv, Artist, Printmaker and faculty member at RISD,
Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX
Shadows and Dirt, curator: Lisa Qualls,
Houston Community College Gallery, Houston, TX
51st Annual Juried Exhibition,
juror: Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator, CAM, St Louis MO,
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Printmatters Membership Show,
JCC, Austin TX
2013
From Lack: Finding Form at its Vanishing, with Michael Crowder and Joan Winter, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fé, NM
L’esprit de l’escalier, curator: Rachel Cook, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Movement, site-specific installation in Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire TX
2012
Impressions – Printmatters Membership Show:
Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX, Texas Tech Lubbock, TX, and Washington Gallery, WA
God – group exhibit,
Art Car Museum, Houston, TX
Group Exhibition,
Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fé, NM
Impressions, print group exhibit,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
PrintHouston: Next, A Biennial of Contemporary Prints,
juror: Dr. Dena M. Woodall, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings MFAH, Houston, TX
2012
Super 8, organized by Christopher Higham,
Spring Street Sudios, Houston, TX
2011
Synthetic Supports: Plastic is the New Paper, curator: Becky Dunham, Curatorial Assistant of Prints and Drawings,
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Annual Citizenship Week, curator: Mari Omori,
Houston Ballet, Houston TX
Drawing Connections,
Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
Large Scale: The Painting Show,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Spectrum, curator: Lisa Qualls,
Avis Frank Gallery, Galveston, TX
Blurring Lines,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Defining Green, site specific installation in collaboration with Mari Omori,
Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire TX
2010
The White Album,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Preserving Space, site specific installation,
Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire, TX
Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
2009
See Through, curator: Karen Shaw,
Islip Art Museum, NY
Summer Show,
Galleri Urbane, Marfa TX
Transparent/Translucent, curator: Wade Wilson,
UTSA, San Antonio, TX
Beneath the SEEN, curator: Wade Wilson,
Houston TX
Human Nature Planted, site specific installation,
Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire TX
Lucinda Cobley + Jill Moser, curator: Wade Wilson,
H. Paxton Moore Gallery, Dallas TX
2008
Germ Welfare, curator: Douglas Ferrari, SICA, Long Branch, NJ
2007
Open Show,
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark, London, UK
Play, curator: Maddy Rosenberg,
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Three Women, Three Generations, Three Continents: Lucinda Cobley, Catherine Lee & Ella Krebs,
Wade Wilson Art Houston TX
Myriad Voices, curator: Anila Quayyum Agha,
Intexure Architects Practice, Houston, TX
2006
Close Proximity, artists’ small works,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Introductions,
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
Adaptation Survival, curator: June Woest,
Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa, TX
Re-Flowering the Garden, juror: Constance Koppelman PhD, SUNY Stony Brook, Mills Pond House Gallery, STAC, NY
2005
City Hall, Texas artists on view ‘05/’07,
City Hall, curator: Gus Kopriva, Houston, TX
The Big Show,
Juror: Michael Olijnyk, Curator of Exhibitions, The Mattress Factory, PA.
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
23rd Juried Membership Show - Visual Arts Alliance,
Juror: H.J Bott,
Bank of America Building, Houston, TX
2004
17th Annual ‘Dia de los Muertos’,
Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
I Love Red,
The Art House, Houston TX
2003
Miniatures,
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston TX
Art, Architecture,
Design Concepts International, Houston TX
2002
CraftHouston 2002,
Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock,
Corpus Christie Art Museum,
Galveston Art Center,
Juror: Kenneth Trapp,
Curator-in-Charge - Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institute,
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX
2001
Open Show, Juror: Virgil Grotfeldt,
Art League, Houston TX
‘under lying truths’: Lucinda Cobley, Darren Emanuel and Lynne McCabe,
Art League, Houston TX
Recent Paintings, Joan Grona Gallery,
Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio TX
2000
Yukiko Lunday Gallery, Houston TX
1998
House, Dublin, Ireland
1995
Images 1995, (toured the UK during 1995/96), Association of Illustrators,
Royal College of Art, London, UK
1994
Horoscope, Elle Magazine, Jurors: Jean Paul Gaultier and Sir Peter Blake,
Harvey Nichols Café, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
Logica Informatik, Geneva, Switzerland
AandBC Theatre Group
ETC Limited
Quadrant Design Associates
Winged Fellowship Trust
Hypnosis Works, London, UK
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
CBRE, Houston, TX
South Shore Harbour Country Club, League City, Texas
The Women’s Home, Houston, TX, USA,
Private collections in UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and USA.
TEACHING
2015 - present
Painting and Drawing Instructor, Art League Houston, TX
2012
First Impressions: a young artists’ printmaking workshop, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2011
Instructor, LLU, Houston, TX, and Art League Houston, TX
1996-98
Visiting Teacher, London College of Fashion, University of Arts, London, UK
LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2014
Lonestar College, North Harris, TX,
College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
Art League, Houston, TX
2013
Panel Discussion for ‘sequence’, moderator: Dena Woodall Ph.D. Associate Curator, MFAH, with Teresa Chapman – Choreographer and Wade Wilson – Gallery Owner, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
2007
Panel Discussion for ‘Close Proximity’, moderator: Wade Wilson, with Thomas Vincent – Visual Artist, and Marlys Tokerud – Interior Designer, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, TX
1997
Visiting Lecture, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hendley, Meghan, http://www.freepresshouston.com/visual-vernacular-artist-lucinda-cobley/
Ortis, Neil Ellis, http://ortsonarts.blogspot.com/2016/02/lucinda-cobley-matrix-okane-gallery-uh.html
Tennant, Donna, http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=26&aID=2716
Paglia, Michael and Edwards, Jim, Texas Abstract – Modern/Contemporary, Fresco Publishing 2014
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Qualls, Lisa, Sensing Lines, with essay by Jonathan Leach, 2014
Orts, Neil Ellis, http://thedancedish.org/movement-and-color/
Castañada, Adam, http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/10/_the_setup_on_october.php
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Anderson, Virginia Billeaud, http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2013/03/translucence-talk-with-lucinda-cobley.html
KUHF radio interview http://driftingsounds.net/tags/teresa-chapman
Michel Muylle and Travis Wine, Collector's Waltz, Travis Wine Video, DVD, 2012
Flores Alvarez, Olivia, http://www.houstonpress.com/events/and-147-large-and-151-scale-the-painting-showand-148--2607145/
Osbourne, Altamese, Houston Press, Night and Day, http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/06/friday_night_gallery_openings.php
Mukerjee, Ruchi, Lights, Camera, Action, Houston Indo American Society News, http://www.rmrmedia.com/blog/2011/06/blurring-lines-hunger-strikes-and-wine-food-festival-kicks-off/
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New American Painting #84 (West), Juror: Terrie Sultan, Director, The Parrish Art Museum, NY http://www.junewoest.com/urbanartists/hnpartists/hnpthumbnails.html#cobley
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http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1241469060. Radio interview for Beneath the SEEN, On the Front Row
Sculpture Exhibit at Bellaire’s Russ Pitman Park, Village News/Southwest News, March 31 2009
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1225926723 interview with Meghan Hendley, On the Front Row, Nov 2008
Wilson, Wade, Vision Eclipsed, catalogue, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, October 2008
Big Bend Sentine,l March 15th 2006
Trapp, Kenneth, CraftHouston 2002, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 2002
Association of Illustrators, Images 20, Creative Review, 1995
Campbell Smith, Ray and Wright, Michael, An Introduction to Mixed Media, Dorling Kindersley, 1995
Creative Review ‘Best of Design’ January Issue, 1994
Wright, Michael, An Introduction to Pastels, Dorling Kindersley, 1993
Creative Review ‘Little Gems’ August Issue, 1993
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