PARSONS FINE ARTS

Cullen Washington is a native of Louisiana and received his BA from Louisiana State University and his MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Washington has exhibited his work in group and solo shows nationally and internationally including: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Massachusetts; The University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Saatchi Gallery, London. In addition, Washington has been an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo and Amherst College. He was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency in New Orleans. Reviews and critical essays of his work appear in Nka, The New York Times, The International Review of African American Art and The Boston Globe. Cullen’s work can be found in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Joyner / Giuffrida Collection, the Charles Saatchi Gallery and the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cullen is currently a Professor at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School.