Cynthia Scott received her BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Visual Art from Tulane University. She is the recipient of several public art commissions, an Artist Fellowship, and numerous grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, the Contemporary Arts Center’s SweetArts fund, and Transforma Projects. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and was the coordinator of Current:NOLA, a discussion group and think tank of artists and writers engaged in raising the national and international profile of contemporary New Oreans visual art through dialogue, promotion, and critical writing.
Scott's work incorporates salvaged and otherwise easily obtainable materials to explore sociopolitical issues, often hybridizing the old with the new. She exhibits a preference for large scale, site-specific installations, but also makes smaller wall works, drawings, photographs, and a series of conceptual vessels utilizing everything from stitched fruit skin to cast metal.
Scott's work incorporates salvaged and otherwise easily obtainable materials to explore sociopolitical issues, often hybridizing the old with the new. She exhibits a preference for large scale, site-specific installations, but also makes smaller wall works, drawings, photographs, and a series of conceptual vessels utilizing everything from stitched fruit skin to cast metal.
