Cynthia Greig lives and works in metropolitan Detroit. Since 1990 she has been exploring the unique nature of the photographic image—its power to persuade and negotiate what we perceive to be real. Drawing on her experience in art history, museums and filmmaking her photographs investigate how information, stereotypes, aesthetic and cultural values infiltrate our consciousness, occupy our memory and affect our experience. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1995, as well as an MA in art history from the University of Iowa, and BFA from Washington University-St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad including the Alternative Museum, Rena Bransten Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Richard Levy Gallery, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, UNO Art Space, Stuttgart and Art Gallery of Windsor. Collections holding her work include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Eastman House, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Seattle Arts Commission, Wellington Management Company, Boston and Coleçao Foto Arte. An avid collector of 19th-century photographs, Greig also co-authored the book, Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls and Other Renegades (Harry N. Abrams, 2003).
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