CINDY RIVARDE
b. 1966 in Toledo, Ohio
lives and works in Columbia, Maryland
Education
2004 M.F.A., Towson University, Towson, Maryland
1993 J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut
1988 B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Visual Art/Theater with honors in set design)
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Cindy Rivarde: Travels Between Shores, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2024 Binding Ties, Library Gallery, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD
2023 The Natural World, Club Pilates Gallery, Gaithersburg, MD
2013 Recent Works, Societa Dante Alighieri, Coral Gables, FL
2012 Men Trees/Nature Art, Casa Turquesa Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1994 One Woman Show, Headquarters of U.S. congressional candidate, Plainville, CT
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Rockville Art League Juried Members Winter Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Gonzalo Ruiz Navarro
2025 Women Artists of the DMV, Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD, curator Lenny Campello
2025 Listen to Connect, two-person show with Greg McLemore, Zo Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2025 Blossoms of Hope Howard Countywide Art Show, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Horowitz Center at Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
2025 Winter Garden, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Lisa Denison
2024 Collecting Community: Millenium Arts Salon at 25! IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, curators Lauren Davidson & Jarvis Dubois
2024 Building a Caring Community Through Art, Priddy Library Universities of Shady Grove, Rockville, MD, curators Yuri Stone and Ariana Kaye from Glenstone Museum
2024 eARTh: How Sustainable is Your Habitat?, The Meetinghouse Gallery, Columbia, MD
2024 Water, Water Everywhere, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Therese Capal
2024 Portraits: Creatures Great and Small, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Maud Taber-Thomas
2024 Blossoms of Hope, Howard County Welcome Center Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2024 Animal (9), Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Finalist Award)
2023 Rockville Art League Juried Members Winter Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Palden Hamilton
2023 Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD, curator Grace Doyle
2023 54th Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD, juror Lindsay McCullough (Third Prize)
2023 5th Figurative, Art Show International, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Talent Prize)
2023 Water (3), Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Finalist Award)
2023 7th Annual Portrait Show, Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Honorable Mention)
2023 Rockville Art League Juried Members Spring Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror J. Jordan Burns
2022 Winter Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Zdeno Mayercak (Second Place Oil Painting)
2022 First Place/Honorable Mention - Spring Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Dr. Irina Stotland
2022 Lost, Found and Looking Forward, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Therese Capal (Second Place Oil Painting)
2022 Food for Thought, District Arts, Frederick, MD, juror Dana Hargrove
2021 Art Howard County 2021!, HCAC Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, juror Freda Lee-McCann
2021 Torpedo Factory Artists Regional Painting Competition, Mosaic Gallery, Fairfax, VA, juror Phil Hutinet
2021 Women Exhibition, York & Penn Fine Art Gallery, Towson, MD, curator Grace Doyle
2021 Women Everytime, MIFA Gallery, Miami, FL, curator Luisa Cardenas
2020 Art Restores Kids, Cricket's Hope, Modesto, CA
2016 Emergence, Chartreuse Muse, Modesto, CA
2011 Family Ties, Books & Books Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2005 By Invitation Only, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2005 The Portrait Project, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2005 Visons, Dreams, and Other Inventions ARTSCAPE, Gallery at CCBC, Catonsville, MD
2004 Room to Grow, Union Gallery, Towson, MD
2003 Institutional Influences, U. of NE, Lincoln, NE, Kansas City, MO, Austin, TX curators Kate Bingaman and Kyle Olsen
2003 Intimate Objects, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2002 A Visual Feast, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2002 18 Parts, Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
1997 Bergen County Museum, Paramus, NJ
1994 New Work, ARTSPACE Gallery, juror Dorothy Mayall, New Haven, CT
1994 Connecticut Artists Show, Stamford Museum of Art and Nature, juror Martha Scott, Stamford, CT.
Bibliography
2023, "Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 51", curator Lauren Szumita of the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
August 1, 2013, "Capturing Nature's Face on Canvas," Miami Herald
October 27, 2004, "Critic's Choice: Art 'Room to Grow,'" City Paper, Mike Giuliano.
April 24, 1994, "Familiar Names, Bright Effect at the 'Connecticut Art' Show,'" New York Times, Vivien Raynor.
Select Awards
2026 Juried into the Sante Fe Gallery Association's Artist Catalogue
2025 Long List/Extended Long List - Jackson Art Prize
2024 Long List - Jackson Art Prize
2023 Third Prize - 54th Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD, juror Lindsay McCullough
2022 Second Place - Winter Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Zdeno Mayercak
2022 First Place/Honorable Mention - Spring Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Dr. Irina Stotland
Corporate Collections
Lydecker Law, Miami, FL
Cobb & Gonzalez, Jacksonville, FL/Orlando, FL
Transcendental Meditation Center of Broward County, Florida
United Way of Modesto, CA
Camillus House, Miami, FL
Project PLASE, Baltimore, MD
The McClendon Center, Washington DC
b. 1966 in Toledo, Ohio
lives and works in Columbia, Maryland
Education
2004 M.F.A., Towson University, Towson, Maryland
1993 J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut
1988 B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Visual Art/Theater with honors in set design)
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Cindy Rivarde: Travels Between Shores, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2024 Binding Ties, Library Gallery, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD
2023 The Natural World, Club Pilates Gallery, Gaithersburg, MD
2013 Recent Works, Societa Dante Alighieri, Coral Gables, FL
2012 Men Trees/Nature Art, Casa Turquesa Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1994 One Woman Show, Headquarters of U.S. congressional candidate, Plainville, CT
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Rockville Art League Juried Members Winter Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Gonzalo Ruiz Navarro
2025 Women Artists of the DMV, Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD, curator Lenny Campello
2025 Listen to Connect, two-person show with Greg McLemore, Zo Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2025 Blossoms of Hope Howard Countywide Art Show, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Horowitz Center at Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
2025 Winter Garden, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Lisa Denison
2024 Collecting Community: Millenium Arts Salon at 25! IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC, curators Lauren Davidson & Jarvis Dubois
2024 Building a Caring Community Through Art, Priddy Library Universities of Shady Grove, Rockville, MD, curators Yuri Stone and Ariana Kaye from Glenstone Museum
2024 eARTh: How Sustainable is Your Habitat?, The Meetinghouse Gallery, Columbia, MD
2024 Water, Water Everywhere, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Therese Capal
2024 Portraits: Creatures Great and Small, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Maud Taber-Thomas
2024 Blossoms of Hope, Howard County Welcome Center Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2024 Animal (9), Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Finalist Award)
2023 Rockville Art League Juried Members Winter Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror Palden Hamilton
2023 Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland, Hamilton Gallery, Baltimore, MD, curator Grace Doyle
2023 54th Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD, juror Lindsay McCullough (Third Prize)
2023 5th Figurative, Art Show International, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Talent Prize)
2023 Water (3), Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Finalist Award)
2023 7th Annual Portrait Show, Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Internet (Honorable Mention)
2023 Rockville Art League Juried Members Spring Show, Glenview Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, juror J. Jordan Burns
2022 Winter Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Zdeno Mayercak (Second Place Oil Painting)
2022 First Place/Honorable Mention - Spring Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Dr. Irina Stotland
2022 Lost, Found and Looking Forward, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Therese Capal (Second Place Oil Painting)
2022 Food for Thought, District Arts, Frederick, MD, juror Dana Hargrove
2021 Art Howard County 2021!, HCAC Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, juror Freda Lee-McCann
2021 Torpedo Factory Artists Regional Painting Competition, Mosaic Gallery, Fairfax, VA, juror Phil Hutinet
2021 Women Exhibition, York & Penn Fine Art Gallery, Towson, MD, curator Grace Doyle
2021 Women Everytime, MIFA Gallery, Miami, FL, curator Luisa Cardenas
2020 Art Restores Kids, Cricket's Hope, Modesto, CA
2016 Emergence, Chartreuse Muse, Modesto, CA
2011 Family Ties, Books & Books Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2005 By Invitation Only, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2005 The Portrait Project, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2005 Visons, Dreams, and Other Inventions ARTSCAPE, Gallery at CCBC, Catonsville, MD
2004 Room to Grow, Union Gallery, Towson, MD
2003 Institutional Influences, U. of NE, Lincoln, NE, Kansas City, MO, Austin, TX curators Kate Bingaman and Kyle Olsen
2003 Intimate Objects, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2002 A Visual Feast, Sheppard Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2002 18 Parts, Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
1997 Bergen County Museum, Paramus, NJ
1994 New Work, ARTSPACE Gallery, juror Dorothy Mayall, New Haven, CT
1994 Connecticut Artists Show, Stamford Museum of Art and Nature, juror Martha Scott, Stamford, CT.
Bibliography
2023, "Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 51", curator Lauren Szumita of the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
August 1, 2013, "Capturing Nature's Face on Canvas," Miami Herald
October 27, 2004, "Critic's Choice: Art 'Room to Grow,'" City Paper, Mike Giuliano.
April 24, 1994, "Familiar Names, Bright Effect at the 'Connecticut Art' Show,'" New York Times, Vivien Raynor.
Select Awards
2026 Juried into the Sante Fe Gallery Association's Artist Catalogue
2025 Long List/Extended Long List - Jackson Art Prize
2024 Long List - Jackson Art Prize
2023 Third Prize - 54th Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD, juror Lindsay McCullough
2022 Second Place - Winter Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Zdeno Mayercak
2022 First Place/Honorable Mention - Spring Show, Rockville Art League, Rockville, MD, juror Dr. Irina Stotland
Corporate Collections
Lydecker Law, Miami, FL
Cobb & Gonzalez, Jacksonville, FL/Orlando, FL
Transcendental Meditation Center of Broward County, Florida
United Way of Modesto, CA
Camillus House, Miami, FL
Project PLASE, Baltimore, MD
The McClendon Center, Washington DC