Cindy Bernard

Cindy Bernard is an artist and activist with a conceptually oriented art practice across a variety of media. She has exhibited internationally and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Whitney Museum,  the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Pompidou, among others. Her grants and fellowships include Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, California Community Foundation,  the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Her work will be included in Staging California in early Hollywood at the UCI Langson OCMA this summer.

In addition to teaching studio art at colleges and universities across Southern California, she  was the founder of SASSAS where she produced more than 150 concerts and other events in the greater Los Angeles area. Currently she is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Desert Trumpet, an online local news substack covering Twentynine Palms and the Morongo Basin.