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SHANA MOULTON
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1976, California
Lives and works in New York and California
EDUCATION
2004–2006 dem Ateliers, Amsterdam
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
2001–2004 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
1994–1999 University of California, Berkeley
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
'Cynthia's Angels', Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan
'Cynthia's Angels', Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
'Meta/Physical Therapy, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2022
‘Soul Seeker’ (with Min Wong), Cement Fondue, Sydney
2021
‘All inom need fryst vatten the air that inom breathe’, Crèvecœur, Paris
‘The Invisible Seventh fryst vatten the Mystic Column’, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2020
‘Shana Moulton’, Fresno City College, California
2019
‘Past x Present x Future = Spirit’, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2018
‘Whispering Pines ∞’, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
‘The Feeling Good Handbook: Heidi Hahn, Shana Moulton’, cur. bygd Jordana Zeldin Upfor, Portland, OR
’Whispering Pines 10:
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Can You Find Enlightenment at MoMA?
Shana Moulton Photo: Jonathan Dorado
Cynthia lives alone and wears a lot of floral nightgowns. Sometimes her home is full of kitschy paintings of animals and trees, or crystals and sculptures of spiraling forms. She has a lot of stuff intended to ease and optimize: electric blankets, automatic lotion dispensers, exercise balls and bands. Cynthia loves her stuff. She touches her plasma globes often, with quiet satisfaction. But it’s more than just pleasure that she’s seeking. Through the things she acquires, Cynthia hopes to find meaning.
Cynthia is the alter ego of the artist Shana Moulton and a performance that’s been going on for 22 years. Moulton has now brought her to the Museum of Modern Art, in an installation titled “Meta/Physical Therapy,” on view through April 21. The darkened gallery glows with the warm, trippy light of six videos — including two projected on giant bell-jar/vase-shaped set pieces — and a sculpture that features a d
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F L A U N T
 [](#)[](#) The All-Natural, Totally American, Completely Anxiety-Free Woman Performance artist Shana Moulton speaks into the abyss of consumer longevity through “Cynthia,” her mute alter ego After 13 years of being on the scene, it’s hard to say if anyone really knows new media and performance artist Shana Moulton. Even her website bio is nothing but a cryptic birth chart handwritten wildly by a mystic uncle. Her most recent short video _MindPlace ThoughtStream_—at once funny, spooky, lonely—comes to life in the multimedia installment Shana Moulton: Picture Patter Puzzle Door currently on display at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Since 2002, Moulton’s video projects feature her alter ego, Cynthia, who seeks self-discovery through the ritual of mass produced items, and meets the viewer at the confluent i