ABOUT
Cynthia Morgan Batmanis
Cynthia Morgan Batmanis is a visual artist who explores issues of memory and personal histories in her work. Although educated in the sciences, beginning in 1980 she has created and widely exhibited artworks in a variety of media including lithography and drawing. For the past 10 years elements of photography, including historical processes: ziatypes, salt prints, cyanotypes, bromoil prints, lith/amidol prints, tintypes and ambrotypes have become a vital part of her creative practice. Batmanis is currently preparing an installation of "Iconic Women" that features her 3-dimensional multi-media works including drawing, as well as lithographic and photographic images on fabric constructions.
Education
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas. B.A., M.A.
- Western Michigan University International Art Workshops, Lausanne and Montreux, Switzerland.
- Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. (Photography)
- University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. (Painting).
- Rice University, Houston, Texas. (Art History).
- Santa Reparata Graphic Art Center, Florence, Italy. (Lithography)
Photographic Exhibitions
- The Alternative Approach, 2013, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA.juried by Christopher James.
- Primary Colors 2013, New York Center for Photographic Arts, New Century Artists, NY, NY, Honorable Mention, juried by, Stephen Perloff.
- Lens Scratch, "And If I Do" series featured May 12, 2012, edited by Aline
Smithson.
- International Alternative Process Exhibition, 2012, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins Colorado. Juried by Christopher James.
- "Fact Fiction and Interpretation: Recent Work from the Glassell Studio School Photographers", 2012,
The Glassell School of Art Perimeter Gallery and Tradition Bank Lobby, Houston, Texas. Juried
by Clint, Willour.
- FotoFest 2012. The Fourteenth International Biennial of Photography & Photo-Related Art: "Nineteenth
Century Photography in the Digital Age, The Glassell School of Art Photographers, Haven Center,
Houston, Texas.
- "Texas Photographic Society Members' Only Exhibition, 2012, Options Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa
Texas, juried by Henry Horenstein, Rhode Island School of Design.
- "The Photo Review Competition 2011, Web Gallery", Stephen Perloff, Editor.
- "Uncanny Surreal Photography", 2011.Photo Place Gallery,Middlebury Vermont, on line website Annex
and Blurb book, juried by Russell Joslin.
- "Prime Years"Bealtaine Ireland, 2011, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Fernando Castro.
- "6th Annual Juried Alternative Process Exhibition", 2010, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, jurors: France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman.
- "28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition", 2010, Houston Center for Photography, juried by Hannah Frieser.
- "(Por)trait Revealed", 2010, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California, curated by Ann Jastrab.
- "Prime Years", 2009, Houston Center for Photography, curated by Fernando Castro.
- "Alternative Processes: A Traveling Exhibition", 2008-2009, Texas Photographic Society, juried by
Christopher James.
- "The Invisible Age", 2008, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California.
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"Recent Work: Glassell Studio School Photographers"(in conjunction with FotoFest 2008),
The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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"The Invisible Age" ,2007, Art Gallery at Sussex County Community College, Newton, New Jersey.
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"Under The Radar", Eleven Emerging Photographers, 2007, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas.
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Houston Press / FotoFest 2006 Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
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2006. The Eleventh International Biennial of Photography & Photo-Related Art
"Toy Joy Exhibition", Houston, Texas.
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Artcar Museum, "Self Portraits", Invitational Photographic Exhibition 2005, Houston, Texas.
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The Glassell School of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Juried Photographic Exhibitions,
2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011. Houston, Texas.
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Edwards Studio Gallery, 2004, 2006, 2010. Houston, Texas.
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