Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. His work is the subject of a survey exhibition on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on February 10 - April 8, 2012. Alongside recent exhibitions at Sutton Lane (Brussels and Paris), Galerie Daniel Bucholz (Berlin and Köln), and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), Thompson's work has been featured in significant exhibitions such as Slow Painting, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2009), Collatéral, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers Cedex, France (2009), Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Thompson teaches in the MFA Program in Visual Art at Bard College, New York.


February 16, 12:30 pm
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Image: Motif XV, 2011, watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted on laser cut aluminum, 49 1/2 x 37 7/8 inches