Cindy Zimmerman is a Southern California painter and placemaker with an MFA from UC San Diego Visual Arts Department and a BFA from Oklahoma University, Other professional credits include: member of Feminist Image Group, Adjunct Emeritus at various community colleges, co-founder of Fern Street Circus, museum worker, and K-12 resident artist. Recent retreat and residency experiences: Guapamacátaro Art & Ecology in Michoacan, Mexico; Desert Dairy in Twentynine Palms. CA.
RECENT WORK
Collective Retrospective, an Instagram project and popup reading/exhibition. Contributing artists reflect on time, their work, and the lives they have led, San Diego and beyond, with Judith Christensen & Feminist Image Group (FIG) 2023-2024
Women Work Together, Mandell Weiss Gallery; Climate Reckoning, Hyde Gallery; and Portals, Phes Gallery, all with Feminist Image Group (FIG), San Diego, 2022-2024
Fern Street Circus, poster designer, grant writer, and strategist, 1991-2024
Rain Grotto, Desert Dairy, immersive, contemplative, permanent space for an artist residency, 29 Palms, CA, 2021
Unauthorized Version, a revisionist life history of M Magdalen told in paintings, installation, and performance, at Art Produce, San Diego, CA, 2019
OTHER CREDITS
Indoor/Outdoor, (FIG),Athenaeum Barrio Logan gallery, (FIG), San Diego 2019
Inside Outside, Art Produce & Project Paint, collaborative with Donovan Correctional Facility, 2019
50 Artists, 50 Fish, Japanese Friendship Garden, 2018
Mind the Gap, (FIG),Southwestern College Gallery, 2018
Night Stand, (FIG),Women’s’ Museum of California, 2016
Feminism Now, (FIG), Gallery D, San Diego, 2016
Women at War, (FIG), Hyde Gallery Grossmont College, 2015
The Fence, La Barda, (FIG), Art Produce gallery, 2014
Labor Migrant Gulf, Southwestern College with Gulf Labor West, 2014
Sanctuary, for Dia De La Mujer, Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, 2014
Time Came Around, solo show, Art Produce gallery, 2013
Exquisite Corpses: Femme Fatale, Women’s Museum of California, 2011
Axis Mundi Archives, New Genre Festival, Living Arts, Tulsa (OK) 2009
Neighbors, Salina (KS) Public Library, 2008
The Art of Eclectic Sculpture, Grossmont College Hyde Gallery, 2007
Eating: Exploring What, How and Why We Eat, Salina Art Center, 2005-2006
Seed of the Grass, Fruit of the Vine, (solo show) Bread & Cie., 2003
Motley, (solo show) Gallery 999, San Diego, 2002
Hybrid Identities of the New Era, student collaborative, Southwestern College, 2001
Adams Avenue: A Work in Progress, Adams Avenue Business Association, San Diego, 1998
The Wise Fools of Golden Hill, Institute for Arts Education, San Diego, 1997-98
Eternal Return, solo show, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, 1996
Intimate Circus: Romance, Comedy and Tragedy of Domestic Life, Art Union, San Diego, 1996
Violated High-rise, Homeless Advocates' "Art off the Street," San Diego City Hall, 1995
April Fools, Intersection Gallery, Wikiup Café, San Diego, 1995
Our Neighborhood/Nuestro Barrio, mural with 200 children, Golden Hill Recreation Center, 1995
Home Altar Tour/ Muertos Marketplace, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, 1994
Burning/Words, Sushi Performance and Visual Arts, San Diego, 1993
The Old Mermaid's Bait Grotto Installation Gallery’s Artwalk, San Diego, 1993
Las Comadres Reading Room: La Frontera/The Border, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1993
La Vecindad, Las Comadres, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, Bridge Gallery, El Paso, 1990
Soapbox and Paintbrush Parade, 500 children and teaching artists, Installation Gallery’s Artwalk, 1989
Cool Water, Sushi Visual and Performing Arts, San Diego, 1988
Town Tavern, photographer-waitress, Norman Oklahoma, 1979-81