Talk
Anthony Cudahy


Anthony Cudahy, Death instinct (for Bergman, for Tarkovsky), 2024. Oil on linen, 4 x 10 ft.
Anthony Cudahy
Odd kind of sympathy (unlit candle, clouded mirror, pressed flowers, Acteon punished for looking), 2024
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 in
MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Anthony Cudahy.
Anthony Cudahy (b.1989, Fort Myers, FL) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY, in 2011 and completed an MFA at Hunter College, NY, in 2020. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Cudahy's first US museum solo show, Spinneret, opened at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine in 2024, and was on view at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, TX (US) through January 2025. In the fall of 2024, his solo show, Like Night Needs Morning, was on view at CAP Centre d'arte de Saint-Fons in Saint-Fons (FR). In 2023, Cudahy's first solo institutional exhibition, Conversation, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France. Cudahy's parallel solo shows, Fool's gold and Fool's errand, were on view at Hales and GRIMM's New York galleries in the fall of 2024.
Previous solo shows include, Double Spar at Hales and GRIMM London, accompanied by a publication, Coral Room at Hales New York, USA; Burn Across the Breeze at 1969 Gallery, NY and The Moon Sets A Knife at Semiose Gallery, Paris, France. In 2021, he exhibited work with Ian Lewandowski and Kenny Gardner in It Was Dark in His Arms at Deli Gallery.
Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.
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