Cynthia Daignault (b. 1978, Baltimore, MD) has presented solo exhibitions at The Sunday Painter, London; Kasmin Gallery, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Stems Gallery, Brussels; and White Columns, New York. She has exhibited in several major museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; FLAG Art Foundation, New York; MASS MoCA, North Adams; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY. Daignault’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. She is a regularly published author, and her writings have appeared in a range of publications. Daignault is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2016 Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Award, a 2011 Rema Hort Foundation Award, and a 2010 Macdowell Colony Fellowship. In 2021, her work was featured in “Soft Water Hard Stone,” the fifth New Museum Triennial. Daignault lives and works in Baltimore.