Cindy Bernhard is a painter living and working in Chicago. She received her MFA in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design in California, and is currently a faculty member at The American Academy of Art in Chicago where she teaches painting and drawing. In addition to teaching, she is the schools gallery director and visiting artist coordinator. In her work, she uses imagery borrowed from pop culture, beauty supply products, and motifs from lifestyle blogs to humorously critique the nature of artifice.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at Bridgeport Art Center, Baby Blue Gallery, One After 909, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Axis Gallery, Basement Projects, Manifest Gallery, Laguna Art Museum and the Museum of American Illustration in New York. She has exhibited internationally at Quinto Piso in Mexico, the Bruit Art Fair in Lebanon, Galerie Boicos in Paxos, Greece, and Paris, France. She has curated multiple exhibitions in Chicago and her work has been featured at Bad At Sports, Newcity, The COMP Magazine, and The Gathered Gallery.