photo credit Shelley Hanna

 

Cyra Jane is a multi-media wielding powerhouse known best for her surreal stone carvings and large-scale community installations. Her work walks an edge between psychoanalysis and magical reality, that sweeps the viewer into a profound emotional response and, sometimes, psychological growth.  A voracious creator and collector of skills, she has been a painter, blacksmith, installation artist, book designer, writer, singer, curator, and sculptress.

While her formal education was in Professional and Technical Writing, Cyra has pursued consistent training in the visual arts while developing her unique voice. She has been the recipient of a number of grants through Ignition Northwest, 4Culture and a scholarship to Pratt Fine Arts Center.  Cyra has held residencies with the James Washington Foundation in Seattle in 2010 and Studiostone in Vancouver, B.C. in 2016.

Passionate about the intersection between art and community, Cyra always seems to find herself working to create and maintain artistic communities. She spent many years volunteering as an installation artist for Burning Man with a blacksmithing collective and for the regional burn event as the Burn Engineer, Event Producer, and an installation artist, managing a crew that built her own designs. She has for six years now been the Director of the International Stone Carving Symposium held in Washington and is a proud young leader in that vibrant community. Recently, she opened a group stone carving studio in Georgetown, WA.

CV

  • Galleries

    -Art Love Salon, Seattle
    -Catalyst Fine Art, Kenmore

  • Shows

    -James W. Washington, Jr.: Many Hats, One Spirit, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, sculpture, July-September 2025
    -Art Love Salon, paintings, July-Sept 2025
    -VENT!, curation and sculpture, June 2025
    -Seattle Erotic Art Festival, April 2025
    -Kubota Gardens, September 2024
    -Chatwin Arts, May 2024
    -Figure Ground Gallery, curation and sculpture, August 2023
    -Ripple Effect, Salem Art Works, July 2023
    -Seattle Erotic Art Festival, curation and sculpture, April 2023
    -Everett Arboretum, August 2022
    -Over/Growth, curation and installation, August 2021
    -Vashon Center for the Arts, March 2021
    -Snapdragon, paintings, June 2020
    -Making Space, International Sculpture Conference, October 2019
    -An Afternoon of Sun and Stone, June 2019
    -Koch Gallery, sculpture, May 2019
    -Koch Gallery, #mymetoo group show, October 2018 (Sponsor's Award)
    -Seattle Erotic Art Festival, curation and sculpture, April 2018
    -Empyrean Studios, June 2017
    -Two Walls Gallery, Death Among Us Group Show, March 2017
    -Dendroica Gallery, November 2016
    -Hinge Gallery, simulacra, August 2016
    -NW Sculpture Gallery, May-August 2015
    -Lakewold Gardens, May 2015
    -Seattle Erotic Art Festival, April 2015
    -NW Flower and Garden Show, Feb 2015
    -We Ain't Selling Nothing but a Damn Good Time, Dec 2014
    -Fade Into You, group show at Twilight Arts, Feb 2014
    -Burning Man, installation with Iron Monkey Arts, August-September 2013
    -Off the Beaten Path, carvings and paintings, Aug 2013
    -Hedreen Gallery, stone carvings, July 2012
    -Two Birds Gallery, paintings and carvings August 2012
    -Critical Massive, installation and burn, July 2012
    -Bemis Spring Show, simulacra, April 2012
    -Pintxo, paintings Nov-Jan 2012
    -Critical Massive, installation and burn, July 2011
    -The Night Kitchen, paintings, January-March 2011
    -Equinox Studios, paintings, December 2010
    -Tougo Coffee Company, paintings, August-September 2010
    -Burning Man, installation with Iron Monkey Arts, August-September 2010
    -Critical Massive, installation, July 19-26, 2010
    -Elliott Bay Brewery in Burien, WA, paintings, April-June 2010
    -New Voices Group Show, Pratt Gallery, sculpture, June 3, 2010
    -ArtFarm, installation, May 22, 2010
    -Starfish Studios, paintings and sculpture, May 2010
    -Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, invited artist, Apr 31-May 2, 2010
    -Cafe Metropolitain, Seattle Dec 2009-Jan 2010
    -Forgotten Works, Dec 2009
    -Balagan Theatre, Seattle Oct 2009
    -Burning Man Center Camp, Sept 2009
    -Critical Massive, Jul 2009
    -Starfish Studios, Mar 2009
    -Mnemonic Gallery, Jan-Mar 2008
    -The Prudential Building, Pioneer Square Artwalk, various points in 2006-07
    -The Phoenix, Feb-Mar 2006
    -The Mercury, Dec 2005

  • Affiliations

    -Gage Academy of Art, instructor
    -Equinox Industrial and Fine Art Studios
    -Pratt Fine Arts Center, former instructor
    -Iron Monkeys, former collaborator
    -Pillow Studios, former intern
    -NWSSA, member and event producer
    -Tom Small
    -Studiostone Creative

  • Residencies

    -Squishy Stone, Oakland, California 2024
    -Studiostone, Vancouver, British Columbia 2016
    -James Washington Foundation, Seattle, Washington 2011

  • Awards

    -Individual Project Grant from 4Culture 2019
    -Scholarship to California Sculptors Symposium 2019
    -Sponsor's Award, #mymetoo, Koch Gallery 2018
    -2nd place Audience Choice Awards, SEAF 2010
    -INW Grant for Filaments 2010
    -INW Grant for Anew 2009
    -INW Scholarship to Pratt Fine Arts Center 2009

  • Press

    Seattle Times, Feb 2024
    Beachcomber, Oct 2020
    Sculpture Northwest, September 2019
    Sculpture Northwest, June/July 2016
    Another Passion, interview, 2010
    City Arts, 2010
    Seattle Times (2), 2009
    Bob Rivers Show, Radio, 2009
    Seattle Sketcher, artist rendering of Anew, 2009
    Almost One a Day, photography of Anew, 2009
    Seattle PI, 2009