Anthony Cudahy

b. 1989

Anthony Cudahy is an American painter. Cudahy was born in Florida, and graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 2011 and received his MFA from Hunter College, New York in 2020. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Cudahy is a figurative painter, whose work explores the nuances and complexities of life and queer identity. His paintings often feature imagery taken from film stills, photo archives, personal photographs and art history, and depict contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites. With a focus on tenderness, Cudahy interrogates themes of isolation, desire, loneliness and safety through an autobiographical lens.

Cudahy’s paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites

In 2023 Cudahy opened his first solo institutional exhibition, Conversation, at Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France. His first US museum solo at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, opens in 2024.  Some of his previous shows include It Was Dark in His Arms, Deli Gallery (2021); Coral Room, Hales, NY; Burn Across the Breeze, 1969 Gallery, NY; The Moon Sets A Knife, Semiose Gallery, Paris; Farewell Books, Austin, TX; 1969 Gallery, NY; Cooler Gallery, NY; Mumbo’s Outfit, NY; and The Java Project in Brooklyn, NY, among others.

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