Biography
Painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Dennis Cady is based in New York City, the Hudson Valley and Arizona. A Native of Oregon, his career has spanned over 40 years. He began his studies at Portland State University, in Oregon, then moved to NY in 1976 when he received The Brooklyn Museum Art School Max Beckmann Fellowship. He also studied at the State University of New York, Empire State College and the Pratt Graphics Art Center.
Cady has traveled and depicted landscapes throughout the world from the United States to Canada, Europe, and Latin America. His work includes paintings on canvas, watercolors, prints and sculpture. Extended painting journeys have yielded many series of works that combine close observation of form, atmosphere and light with rich color, expressive brushwork, and a distinct sense of place. During the winter months he works indoors, creating woodcuts, linocuts and monoprints that interpret and recreate his on-site paintings.
He has designed and built studio-residences in the Hudson Valley and the White Mountains of Arizona. Focused on painting and printmaking for the first half of his career, his love of materials and explorations of 3-dimensional form and space has also drawn him to direct woodcarving. For the past twelve years he has created natural wood sculptures, the material for which he forages in forests. This is related to his philosophy, which values the repurposing of materials in harmony with environmental concerns.
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace Collection
Center for Book Arts
New York Public Library Print Collection
South Street Seaport Museum
U.S. Department of State
Newark Public Library Print Collection
The University of Toronto
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, CUNY
Corporate Collections
Aetna Life & Casualty
Bristol Meyers Squibb
Citibank
Deloitte Haskins, Sells
Deloitte Touche
Hearst Corporation
Hilton Hotels
Hughes Offshore
IBM
Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Merrill Lynch
MetLife Insurance
Mobil Oil
The New York Times
Pfizer, Inc.
Philadelphia Life Insurance Co.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Proctor & Gamble
Readers Digest
UPS
Tupperware, Inc.
Selected Exhibitions
ONE-PERSON
2017
2016
2015
2014
2012
2010
2009
1995
1993
1980
1979
Endangered Nature, CUNY Law School, Long Island City, NY
Natural Resources, Queensborough Community College Art Gallery. Bayside, NY
Natural Wood Sculpture, Rainforest Art Foundation, Shreveport, LA
By Land and By Sea” Queens College Art Center, CUNY, Flushing, NY
Dennis Cady, Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
Hudson Valley Landscapes, The Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, NY
Dennis Cady: Landscapes, Crosby Painting Studio, New York, NY
Dennis Cady: Prints and Watercolors, Spring Street Studio, New York, NY
Dennis Cady, Retrospective, Newburgh City Hall, Newburgh, NY
Dennis Cady, Prints, Librarie Jacques Mattarasso, Nice, France
Dennis Cady, Retrospective, The Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (1991, 1989, 1987, 1985)
Dennis Cady, Retrospective, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY
Dennis Cady, Retrospective, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
GROUP
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
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1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1989
1985
1984
1983
1982
1978
1976
Nature Sculpted, Rainforest Art Foundation Gallery, LIC, NY
Nature Through the Lens, 4th Annual Exhibition, RFAF Gallery
The Silver + Diamond Jubilee: Then and Now, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY
Nature Through the Lens, 2nd Annual “,” RFAF Gallery, LIC, NY
Print Arts Northwest, Annual Exhibition (Traveled through Oregon)
Beauty of the Rainforest, RFAF Gallery, LIC, NY
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (2007, 2006, 2005)
Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR, Cyprus Exchange Exhibition
Printed Matter, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR (2006)
Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY (2006, 2005)
Deborah Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
Newburgh Historical Society, Annual Exhibition
Art Without Walls: Land and Sea, South Street Seaport, New York
Millbrook Gallery, Millbrook, NY
Northwest Print Council, Southern Oregon College, Ashland, Oregon
Greene County Arts Council Annual, Chatham, NY
Mohawk-Hudson Regional Annual, Albany Institute of Art and History, NY (1999, 1997, 1992)
Blue Pony Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina (2000, 1999,
Wenninger Gallery, Rockport, Massachusetts
Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gallery of Graphic Arts, New York, NY (since 1996)
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY (1999, 1998)
Evergreen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Northwest Print Council, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Green Gallery, Guilford Connecticut
Prints From the Block, The Annex Gallery, Santa Rosa, California (to the present)
Model and Costume, The Spring Studio, New York, NY
Orion Gallery, New York, NY
Water Forms, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY
Land and Sea, Schoolhouse Gallery, Croton Falls, NY
Mohawk-Hudson Regional Annual, Albany Institute of Art and History, NY
International Works on Paper, Biennial, Queensborough Community College, NY (Purchase Prize)
Olana, Frederick Church House, Hudson, NY
Mulberry Gallery, New York, NY
Millbrook Gallery, Millbrook, NY
Greene County Arts Council, Chatham, NY
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY (1993, 1992)
Hudson River Wetlands, Greene County Arts Council, Catskill, NY
Catskill Watercolors, Gallery at Hunter Mountain, NY
Twilight Park Artists 45th Annual Exhibit, Haines Falls, NY (1992)
The Kelmscott Gallery, Cold Springs, NY
Whitehall Gallery, New York, NY
Orion Gallery, New York, NY
Glass Gallery, New York, NY (1985)
International Works on Paper, Biennial, Queensborough Community College, NY
Seventeenth Street Gallery, New York, NY
301 Houston Street, New York, NY
Middle Collegiate Church, New York, NY
Condesso Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Artists of Oregon, Portland Art Museum, New York (1973)
S.U.N.Y. Alumni Exhibition, Union Carbide Company, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Bibliography
“Dennis Cady, Natural Resources,” Queens Gazette, ” Vol. 35, no. 33, August 12, 2016.
Karen Bjornland, “Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, The Daily Gazette, July 14, 1999: C6.
Raymond J. Steiner, “Dennis Cady,” Art Times, September 1994: 13.
Amy Winter, ”Dennis Cady: Expanding Vistas,” Mountain Eagle, August 1994.
Amy Winter, “Nature Imitates Art,” Dennis Cady, The Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1991.
Les Krantz, ”Dennis Cady,” New York Art Review (Chicago: American References, 1987): 320, 365-66.
“Dennis Cady, Wall Street Blue Prints,” The Print Collectors Newsletter XV, 4, Sept.-Oct. 1984.
“Dennis Cady, Print World (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1983-1994.
“Dennis Cady,” Who’s Who in American Art, 1978-present.