Cindy Bernier

“I am a life-long dancer/painter, exploring paint as movement on canvas.  I use my body’s memory to become the paint, the brush strokes, the color, patterns, texture.  I am interested in exploring movement dynamics through the paint.  Translating body memory into paintings connects me to a language where dance and paint merge.”

Cindy Bernier, a life-long dancer, explores paint as movement on canvas.  She is fascinated by the process of translating movement dynamics through mark making and layers of color. Her paintings are in private collections
in Connecticut, New York, Florida, Arkansas, New Jersey, California, Switzerland and Italy.


Born in New York in 1951, Cindy Bernier is an emerging painter whose work reflects her career as a dancer/choreographer.  Ms. Bernier was an early member of Joyce Trisler’s, Danscompany. She performed and served as artistic director of Kinetikos, New England Dance Theater and Bernier Dance where she created over 30 works and was awarded a fellowship grant by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts for her choreography.  In New York, Cindy Bernier’s work was produced at The Theater at Riverside Church Dance Festival, Dancers Responding to Aids, Williamsburgh Arts Nexus, The D.U.M.B.O. Festival, Th...

Dance
2007-Present Lisa Lockwood, New York
2001-2009 Maralyn Miles Ballet, Greenwich, CT
1981-2001 Numerous NYC Ballet Teachers
1973-1981 Gabrielle Taub-Darvash, New York, NY
1971-1973 Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, New York, NY Full merit scholarship
1970-1971 Trisha Kaye, Oakland, CA
1970-1971 Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA
1969-1970 London Dance Center, London, England
1958-1969 Russell Fratto, Norwalk, CT

2024

Pictor Gallery, Group Show, Allegory of Winter, New York, NY

Wilton Library, Group Show, Wilton, CT

Pictor Gallery, Solo Show, Paint Moves, April 23rd- May 18th, New York, NY

Carriage Barn, Spectrum Exhibition: Visual Rhythms, May 3rd - June 2nd, New Canaan, CT

Greenwich Art Society, Juried Exhibit, May 20th - June 14th, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT

Rowayton Community Co-Op Nursery School Art Sale

Kerschner Gallery, August 3rd- September 28th, Fairfield, CT

2023

Quidley Fine Art, Westport, CT

Mattatuck Museum, MIXMASTER @ The MATT Juried Members Exhibition, Waterbury, CT

CCNS ART SHOW, Sono Collection, Norwalk, CT

Pictor Gallery, Group Show, 'Memories' , New York, NY

Odetta Gallery, Exquisite Codes, Berlin

Carriage Barn Members Show, New Canaan, CT

Pictor Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY

2022

Goddard - Riverside Community Center, WHAM Art Exhibit, New York, NY

Mayor’s Gallery, Group Show, Stamford, CT

SPAG Artists Exhibition, Group Show, Norwalk, CT

Pictor Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show, ‘Backwards and Forwards’

Pictor Gallery, New York, NY, Solo Show, ‘Paint Moves’

SPAG, Group Show, ‘Right Now’, Norwalk, CT

Wilton Library Exhibition, Group Show, Wilton, CT

Quidley and Company Fine Art, Westport,...