Cydnei Mallory

Cydnei Mallory is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the relationship between materiality, labor, and the body. Influenced by the industrial background of Pittsburgh, along with her family’s tradition of resourcing and restoring found materials, Mallory incorporates everything from cast metals and rope to basic fabrics and hair into her work. She uses the body and materials of labor to explore issues surrounding stereotyped ideas of gender, sexuality, and class. Her work establishes a timeline of self that moves between ancestral history to present realities, and future possibilities. Her sculptures are referential bodies that explore issues and stereotypes of gender, sexuality, class, and race. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cydnei Mallory is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Phoenix Arizona. She received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2018 and her BFA from The Pennsylvania State University.