CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS, ETC.
2024. Members Show, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve.
Opening January 27, 2 to 4 pm thru April 5. In Touch, curated by Megan Young. At the Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Cold Coyote Calls, a butoh dance by Laura Swedenborg, video by Cynthia Penter. Through April 5, 2024.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
Opening April 21. In Touch, curated by Megan Young. At the Medici Museum of Art, Warren, Ohio. Cold Coyote Calls, a butoh dance by Laura Swedenborg, video by Cynthia Penter. Through April 5, 2024.
In Motion and (re)Pose. An exhibition of dance photos, loops, and video. Looking for venue or opportunity.
Video Fall-Out: Imagine. 20 video installations by 20 artists. Sponsored by Independent Pictures. More info to come soon.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS, ETC.
2024. Cleveland on the Streets. Presented by the Cleveland Photo Fest and Tri-C Gallery East EEC. Three of my photos are presented in this exhibition.
2024. Standing Rock International Film Festival. At the Kent Stage, Kent, Ohio.
2023. Art of the Trade: Artists Collecting Artists. At Doubting Thomas in Tremont.
2023. The New Now. The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve. Awarded Prize (one of four awarded) for my photograph "As I was walking in the W. Village, I came upon Don Eddy."
2023. The Cleveland Photo Fest. Bostwick Design Initiative. Five pieces exhibited.
2023. Members Show, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve.
2023. Members Show and Farewell to the Artcraft Building, Cleveland Print Room.
2023. Director, The 20th Annual Standing Rock International Film Festival. Kent, Ohio.
2022. Cleveland Photo Festival. Bostwick Design Initiative Galleries. Cleveland, Ohio. Three of my photographs included, plus a featured installation of 25 photographs by my students at Hiram College.
2022. The Spooktacular Halloween Show! Prama Artspace and Gallery. Parma, Ohio Through November.
2022. The Occult. Doubting Thomas Gallery, Tremont, Cleveland, Ohio.
2022. Time Will Tell. A Show of Artistic Wisdom and Experience. Coburn Art Gallery, Ashland College. For more info: Time Will Tell
2022. Monster Drawing Rally. Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
2022. Members Show, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve.
2022. Director of the 19th Annual Standing Rock International Short Film Festival,at the Kent Stage.
2021. Mouse House. Installations about the Covid experience curated by Liz Maugans. At Currents Gallery w.78 St Arts Complex, Cleveland, OH
2021. Deja Nude. Two photos as part of the Cleveland Photo Festival. At Bostwick Design Partnership. 2729 Prospect Ave. E, Cleveland, OH 44115.
2021. 18th Annual Standing Rock International Shorts Festival. Kent, Ohio. Online screening this year.
2021. Waterloo Photography Invitational 2021. Photocentric Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
2020. Art During Covid. Worthington Yards.
2020, 2019. The 16th Annual Standing Rock International Short Film Festival at the Kent Stage. For more info: SRFF
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014. Off The Wall Members Showcase. Cleveland Print Room.
2019. Photographer, Spaces Benefit, End of Days.
2019. The Artist as Teacher. An exhibition of Art House, Inc. artists. At ArtNEO, W. 78 St Studios.
2019. Cinex Nite of Experimental and Animation. 7 pm to 11 pm. Worthington Yards Courtyard. In conjunction with the Fresh Air Exhibit. Also performances in dance by Hope Schultz, Genevieve Jencson, Laura Swedeenborg, and Stacey Pickering. A musical performance by We Three Kings -Noa Even, Daniel Bruce, and Dustin May. Plus a dance and video performance at the end of the films by Sanjib Bhattachary and Meng Hsuan Wu. For more info: Cinex 2019
2019. Fresh Air. Worthington Yards Gallery.
2019. Participating artist, Monster Drawing Rally,Spaces Gallery
2018. Reclaimed: Environmental Art Today. At the Box Gallery, Akron. My film with Hope Schultz and Lisa Miralia, Earth Prayer, will be part of this show.
2018 Dia de Muertos. Altars at the Icon Church at Cleveland Pubic Theatre. I created an "Altar of the Lost Artists" to honor artist friends who have passed.
2018. Fire Fish Festival. September 2018.
2018. Rooms to Let. July 2018.
2018. Standing Rock International Short Film Festival. At the Kent Stage, Main St, Kent, Ohio. Films from all over the world in competition followed by two artists highlighted from last year. Last act will be a new dance film by Cynthia Penter with live on stage dance by Hope Schultz and sound by Lisa Miralia.
2017. Fire Fish Festival. Invited to create a special video installation about the year in its\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' seasons. A two day event.
2017. We are Artful. Heights Arts. One of 10 artists featured at the show of artists with studios at the Coventry School.
2017. A self portrait in The Artist Trust, part of Constant as the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, highlighting regional artists living and producing in Cuyahoga County.
2017, 2016, 2015, 2014. Rooms to Let, Slavic Village. Participating artist in one of five houses in the Slavic Village neighborhood changed by area artists. flickr Rooms to Let 2015
2017. Elementals:Fire and Water, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls.
2017. Standing Rock International Shorts Festival. Kent, Ohio.
2016. Westward Ho: Great Expectations, Spaces Annual Benefit. Silent Auction and 12 x 12. I also photographed the benefit. Westward Ho by C.Penter
2016, 2015. FireFish Festival, Lorain, Ohio. Asterisk on Broadway @FireFish. 20 some artists exhibit art and installations, curated by Dana Depew and Scott Pickering. FireFish Fest on Facebook
2015/2016. Roy Bigler Memorial Art Exhibit, "Good Things to Life." A show of art by Roy Bigler and friends. Roy was the gallery coordinator at CCC Gallery East up to his death last year. Cuyahoga Community College Gallery East. Through January, 2016. Roy Bigler Memorial Exhibit
2015. Guide to the Galaxies, Spaces Annual Benefit. Silent Auction and 12 x 12. I also photographed the benefit. Guide to the Galaxies
2016, 2015. Photo Now, a photography show organized by the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve. Cuyahoga Community College Gallery East. Photo Now in Cool Cleveland
2014. Panelist for 2015 grants Ohio Arts Council Media Arts panel. Columbus Ohio.
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS PRODUCED, ORGANIZED, CURATED BY CYNTHIA PENTER
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015. Director of the Standing Rock International Shorts Festival, held annually at the end of January at the Kent Stage, Kent, Ohio. Standing Rock International Shorts Festival
2019. Co-Curated Cinex Nite of Experimental and Animation and Performances, working with Rian Orso, Robert Banks, and Liz Maugans. Worthington Yards Courtyard. In conjunction with the Fresh Air Exhibit.
2019, Hiram First Annual Student Film Festival.
2014. Curated a special program of local music videos for the Standing Rock International Shorts Festival, and showed an edited version of my film, Flower Power, with a live music accompaniment by Richie Kindler on sitar and Cliff Syder on flute. Standing Rock Film Fest 2015
2014. Films by Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion artists Olivia Mihaltianu of Romania and Huda Lutfi of Egypt, plus a dozen Cleveland-area filmmakers. Curated by Cynthia Penter assisted by Shari Wilkins and Robert Banks. Cleveland Print Room
2013. Video Fall-Out: Dreams of the Past, Delusions of the Present, Visions of the Future, a show of 22 video installations at Loren Naji Studio Gallery. Sponsored by Independent Pictures.
2011. Video Fall-Out: The Music, a show of 22 video installations at the Bank on Waterloo. Sponsored by Arts Collinwood and Indie Pictures.
2010. Rock That Spot, a video installation of music videos made in N.E.Ohio by 12 artists at the Ingenuity Festival of Arts & Technology.
2010. Referential: Homage. Montage. Sabotage. At Asterisk Gallery, Tremont, 30 artists making installation art about art.
1999-2001. Ohio Independent Film Festival. Curated special themed programs of shorts, including 2001 Processing Imagination and, 2000 Films about Youth, and 1999 Motion Pictures.
1995. Crudarama. Films by students and invited guests on a theme. Kent State University School of Art.
1994. The Artist Speaks. Artists as Activists. Kent State University School of Art.
SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS
2014. Participating artist in 12" x12", during Optical Delusions, a benefit for SPACES artist collective, Cleveland, O.
2014. Participating photographer in Cleveland Print Room Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Mahall\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s, Lakewood. Cleveland Print Room
2014. Western Reserve Open Photography Competition. Two pieces in show, chosen by Diane Waggoner, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Western Reserve Photo Competition
2014. Flower Power. A show of flower and flower related photographs, by Daiv Whaley, Deborah Pinter, and Cynthia Penter. Also included were a video by Penter, a floral sculpture by Moe Dixon, and a Digital Display of flower photos from an Open Call-to-Artists. Maria Neil Art Project
2014. Rooms to Let, Slavic Village. Participating artist in one of three houses in the Slavic Village neighborhood changed by area artists. Rooms to Let, Slavic Village
2014. Hidden Mother. Group show of photographs on a theme. Cleveland Print Room. Hidden Mother
2013. Participating artist in 12" x12", during Disco DaDa Dreamscapes, a benefit for SPACES artist collective, Cleveland, O.
2013. Cleveland Print Room Members Show.
2013. Western Reserve Open Photography Competition. Curated by Barbara Tannenbaum, CMA. @ the Beachwood Branch C.C.P.Library.
2013. Unaltered Images. Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, Oh. Group photography show curated by Bill Pappas. Valley Art Center
2013. May Show. Annual juried exhibition at Lakeland Community College.
2013. 20 Years of Tremont, participating artist to celebrate the Art Walk anniversary.
2013. Video Fall-Out, curator, organizer, and artist in a show of 22 video installations at Loren Naji Studio Gallery. Sponsored by Independent Pictures.
2013. Homage to the Beachland, video installation. Space: Rock gallery Collinwood.
2012. Object of Beauty, Photo&Video exhibition with Michelle Murphy @ the Brandt Gallery. OoB Brandt2013
2012. Full Circle, installation video at West 78 St. Galleries
2011, 2006,2003,1999. 48 Hours of Making Art. Lake Erie College. A collaboration with a group of artists to create, document, and exhibit work.
2011. Video Fall-Out, curator, organizer, and artist in a show of 22 video installations at the Bank on Waterloo. Sponsored by Arts Collinwood and Indie Pictures.
2011,2005,2004. Pandemonium -annual fundraising benefit at Cleveland Public Theater (CPT): Amuse Me, Addicted to Love, and Ticket to Hell: Dante\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'. Video installations.
2011. Brandt 21, invited to display photographs in a retrospective show with work at both the Brandt Gallery and Mastroianni Photography and Arts.
2010. Participation in Lake Effect, a show of 12 photographers at Heights Arts.
2010. Community Through the Arts One person show of video installations and photographs at Hiram College.
2010, 2005, 2003. Photographs included in the Power of Women, a benefit auction/ exhibition of photographs for Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland.
2010. Curator, organizer, and participating artist in Rock That Spot, a video installation with 12 artists at the Ingenuity Festival of Arts & Technology.
2010. Referential: Homage. Montage. Sabotage. Curator and exhibited in video art show at Asterisk Gallery, Tremont involving 30 artists making installation art.
2009. Faculty Art Show, Combined Eastern, Metro, and Western campuses Eastern Art Gallery, Cuyahoga Community College.
2009. Frigidart, an exhibition of works using recycled refrigerator doors. Asterisk Gallery, Tremont.
2009. Illuminating the Past, video installation, Detroit Superior Bridge Project.
2009. Temporality: Spirit of the Earth. One person video and photo installation, Brandt Gallery, Tremont.
2008. Faculty Show, Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus.
2008,2007,2006. Faculty Show, Cleveland Institute of Art.
2005. Memento Mori, an anti war exhibition at the Cleveland State University School of Art Gallery. A two piece video installation, "A Hollywood Dialectic."
2005. Participating photographer in benefit auction for Ohio Citizen\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Action.
2002. "Secrets of Knot Tying," a video installation included in Scouts, a show of art works around the theme of scouting at Newsense Enterprises, Lakewood, Ohio.
2002. "Goddess in a Box," a video installation included in The Divine Feminine, of women and spirituality, Open Space Gallery, Kent, and at the Artcade.
1998. Digital photos in Animus/Anima, North Water Street Gallery, Kent, Ohio.
1991-1996. Annual Faculty Art Exhibit, School of Art, Kent State University.
1989. Inclusion in Retrospective/Introspection, 10-year survey of Ohio Arts Council\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Aid to Individual Artists Program, Gund Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
1989. The Focused Eye exhibition, Ft. Hayes Metro Center Gallery, Columbus, O.
1988. Details of a Voyage, a one-person exhibition of photography, Kent State University Student Center Gallery.
Selected Screenings
2001 -2016. Standing Rock International Short Film & Video Festival.
2014. Screening of Quilt Square for Diane. A nite of films by Creative Fusion artists and Cleveland-area filmmakers who studied with Richard Myers. Cleveland Print Room
2011. Prospect and Refuge, Cleveland Public Theatre, DanceWorks series and at Allegheny College. Produced 5 short video pieces in collaboration with the group, Antaeus Dance.
2010. Cleave/Verge collaboration with Antaeus Dance, CPT DanceWorks series.
2010. Winter Play, a film commissioned by SRCA and screened with live music by Brad Bolton at the Standing Rock International Short Film & Video Festival.
2009. Film screened at Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland.
2002. Summer Shorts on the Plaza, a week-long screening of my film and video work on the Jumbotron screens at Playhouse Square sponsored by Adelphia / OIFF.
1999-2001. Ohio Independent Film Festival. I curated special themed programs of shorts.
1988. Amnesty International Film and Video Exhibition, Moscow, Russia.
1986. ILIS International Women\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, screening.
1981-1983. Preview / STV (Channel 61), Cleveland, Boston, Dallas, broadcasts.
1982. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, honorable mention film.
1982. Cincinnati Arts Festival, screening.
1981, 1982. Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, screening.
1981. Cleveland International Film Festival, First prize, Ohio Film Competition.
