Cynthia Minet creates illuminated, site-responsive sculptures, installations and drawings that reflect her close study of fauna, their movement, and their behavior. Most often made from salvaged and repurposed materials, plastics, and sequenced LEDs, Minet's recognizable animals are conceptually layered artworks that prompt conversations around the urgent ecological crises threatening our natural world.
Cynthia Minet was born in New Jersey, raised in Rome, Italy, and is based in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from San Francisco State University, and a BA from UC Santa Barbara. Currently a professor at Moorpark College in Southern California, she has also taught in Rome, Italy and in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Minet’s artwork has been presented in solo shows in Southern California at Craft Contemporary, the Fisher Museum at USC, the Culver Center for the Arts at UC Riverside, and CSUN, as well as in the Los Angeles International Airport. In addition to group shows nationally, Minet has presented her work internationally in Italy, Israel, Denmark, and Belarus.
Her work is in private and public collections, including the Projectiv Artist’s Museum, Tel Aviv, the Bell Gallery Collection at Brown University, and Special Collections, Otis College of Art and Design.
Features and reviews have appeared on The Discovery Channel(Canada), Wired Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, KCET ArtBound, Artillery Magazine, FORM Magazine, the Anchorage Daily News, RAI Television, (Italy), The Huffington Post and on numerous websites.
