Anthony Cudahy
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
4/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
9/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
7/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
3/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
2/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- Context
- Artist maintains strong primary market presence through three major galleries. Secondary market limited, indicating gallery retention strategy typical of rising contemporary artists.
- Auction History
- Notable Sales
- Date
- March 7, 2024
- Size
- 152.6 x 152.6 cm (60 x 60 in)
- Title
- Espalier, 2021
- Venue
- Sotheby's London
- Result
- Auction closed - result not disclosed
- Estimate
- £8,000-12,000 GBP
- Period 2022 2024
- Note: Limited secondary market - artist primarily gallery-controlled; Range: £8,000-£12,000 GBP ($10,000-$15,000 USD estimated)
- Current Estimate
- Contact GRIMM, Hales, or Semiose for current primary-market pricing; major shows frequently sell out.
- Pricing Structure
- Note
- Primary-market gallery pricing remains controlled.
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- Works on Paper
- 2,000-15,000 USD
- Paintings Large
- Estimated 40,000-90,000 USD+ (museum/foundation acquisition tier)
- Prints Editions
- 2,000-5,000 USD
- Paintings Medium
- Estimated 15,000-40,000 USD
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- Secondary Market Context
- Record 88,200 USD (2022); current realistic painting band at auction ~9,000-23,000 USD; works on paper 500-2,000 USD.
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- Liquidity
- Assessment
- Limited-to-moderate. ~7 lots in 2025+ partial DB with 86% sell-through; ~29 lifetime lots tracked. Predominantly gallery-controlled with a thin but active secondary market at Phillips.
- Sell Through
- High (~86% in 2025+ tracked sales) but low absolute volume.
- Annual Volume
- Roughly 5-12 lots/year, mostly works on paper plus occasional paintings.
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- Collector Base
- Growing institutional and private interest; documented private holdings include The Hort Family Collection (New York) and The David and Indre Roberts Collection (London); strong LGBTQ+ collector base; spread across US, Netherlands, France, UK, and now Canada.
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- Auction History
- Trend
- Post-2022 normalization. After the 2022 speculative peak (88,200 USD), recent painting results cluster in the 9,000-23,000 USD range with works on paper at 500-900 USD; mixed sold-vs-estimate outcomes indicate froth has receded toward sustainable gallery-anchored levels.
- Record
- Date
- May 19, 2022
- Note
- ARTIST AUCTION RECORD (corrects partial Egon DB high of 22,860 USD); hammered roughly 3-4x high estimate at the 2022 emerging-market peak.
- Work
- the gate
- Venue
- Phillips New York, 20th Century and Contemporary Art Day Sale
- Estimate
- 20,000-30,000 USD
- Price USD
- $88,200
- Venues
- Phillips (primary secondary venue), Christies, Bonhams, Sothebys, regional houses.
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- Market Dynamics
- Liquidity
- Limited - primarily gallery-controlled with emerging secondary market
- Collector Base
- Growing institutional and private collector interest; strong LGBTQ+ collector base
- Market Trajectory
- Accelerating - museum acquisitions increasing 2022-2025, major monograph 2024, expanding gallery representation
- Geographic Distribution
- United States (primary), Europe (growing), particularly Netherlands, France, UK
- Recent Activity
- February 28, 2025: Touch and demon, 2020December 4, 2024: Howling, 2021December 4, 2024: Bluenose, 2019December 4, 2024: Night landscape, 2021October 11, 2024: Mutation, 2021October 10, 2024: Dress, 2021May 15, 2024: Bright (Raised Arm), 2021March 12, 2024: Espalier, 2021March 7, 2024: waiting, 2020
- Sell Through Rate
- 33.3%
- Total Lots 36 Months
- 55
- Investment Indicators
- Monograph
- Phaidon 2024 - significant validation
- Gallery Tier
- Tier 2 galleries with strong international presence
- Fair Presence
- Art Basel, Frieze, Armory Show
- Media Coverage
- Extensive - NYT, Artforum, Frieze, Brooklyn Rail, Bomb Magazine, Interview
- Institutional Buying
- Strong - 15+ major museum acquisitions 2022-2024
- Recent Sales 2024 2026
Work Date Result USD Venue Outcome Peter Hujar i June 2026 $12,065 Christies Sold, exceeded high estimate The Women (2011, gouache/pencil on paper) March 2026 $500 Bonhams Sold below estimate (early work on paper) Gridded Wall / Apocalypse Tree January 2026 $889 Phillips Sold below estimate (work on paper) Ian on the border (2020) May 14, 2025 $22,860 Phillips New York Modern and Contemporary Day Sale Sold within estimate / below high estimate Bluenose (2019) December 4, 2024 $8,871 Phillips Sold above estimate - Total Sale Value 36 Months
- $5M (aggregate across all lots per Artsy data)
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- Market Position
- Emerging-to-mid-career contemporary figurative painter; strong institutional validation outpacing a deliberately restrained secondary market = undervalued fundamentals profile.
- Investment Outlook
- Positive/accelerating on fundamentals: 2026 Esker Foundation (Calgary) solo, continued museum acquisitions (Portland Museum of Art 2024-25), Phaidon monograph, three-continent gallery support. Secondary pricing has normalized from the 2022 peak, suggesting disciplined long-term value over momentum-driven flipping.
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Institutional Presence
- Monograph
- Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret (Phaidon, 2024)
- Exhibitions
- Major Group Shows
- ICA Miami group exhibitionsFLAG Art Foundation exhibitionsMultiple international gallery group shows
- Solo Museum Shows
Title Year Venue Significance Spinneret 2024 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME First major US museum solo exhibition with Phaidon monograph Conversation 2023 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France First solo institutional show in Europe Like Night Needs Morning 2024 CAP Centre d'art de Saint-Fons, France —
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- Museum Collections
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA
- Dallas Museum of Art, TX
- Kunstmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
- Musée d'art Moderne de Paris, France
- New York Historical Society, NY
- Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
- Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
- Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pessac, France
- Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China
- Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL
- Portland Museum of Art ME (acquired The photographer v, 2024)
- The Hort Family Collection New York (private)
- The David and Indre Roberts Collection London (private)
- Recent Acquisitions
Work Institution Year Eternal Lovers Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX 2024 Arthur Russell on the shore The David and Indrė Roberts Collection 2023 Sebastian, before or after Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 2023 smoke sun, ocular migraine, torture wheel Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2023 Eveningdawn (Reverse Pareidoliac Figure) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2022 Fear painting Kunstmuseum, The Hague 2022 The photographer v Portland Museum of Art, ME 2024 Ian asleep (Seneca watching) Baltimore Museum of Art, MD 2022 - Awards and Recognition
- Artsy Vanguard 2022; sustained artist-to-watch editorial recognition. No major prize or fellowship surfaced in current research.
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- Solo Institutional Exhibitions
Title Year Venue Significance metronome yawned 2026 Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada First Canadian institutional solo; new and recent works on the felt vs ordered experience of time ceaseless arranger 2025 GRIMM, Amsterdam Major new-paintings solo; covered by Juxtapoz, Ocula, Meer Spinneret 2024 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME First major US museum solo survey; Phaidon monograph - Solo Institutional Exhibitions Meta
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Career & Biography
- Career
- Trajectory
- Accelerating institutional momentum into 2025-2026 with first Canadian institutional solo and sustained European/US museum interest.
- Recent Milestones
- 2024 first US museum survey Spinneret (Ogunquit Museum of American Art, traveled to Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, through January 2025) with Phaidon monograph; 2025 new-painting solo ceaseless arranger at GRIMM Amsterdam (Aug 29-Oct 18, 2025); 2026 solo metronome yawned at Esker Foundation, Calgary.
- Identity
- Note
- Confirmed b. 1989 Fort Myers, Florida; American; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. No biographical changes detected.
- Family
- Lives with husband photographer Ian Lewandowski
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- Birth Location
- Fort Myers, Florida, USA
- Studio Practice
- Devotedly collects images from diverse sources, creates preparatory collages that mutate through painting process, works in both oil paintings and detailed colored pencil drawings
- Current Location
- Brooklyn, New York
- Artistic Evolution
- Contemporary figurative painter known for blending abstraction and realism through layered compositions exploring queer identity, intimacy, and historical narratives
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- Artistic Context
- Contemporaries
- Associated with a wave of contemporary queer figurative painters; references cited include Bonnard/Nabi decorative intimism and Neo-Expressionist color (Dana Schutz, Cecily Brown).
- Key Influences
- Queer archival imagery, art history (Bruegel, Bosch, Blake, Bacon, medieval tapestries), personal photographs, film stills, hagiographic icons.
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Artistic Profile
- Style
- Contemporary queer figurative painting blending abstraction and realism; dreamlike, phosphorescent palette with Nabi/Bonnard-indebted decorative integration of figure and pattern and Neo-Expressionist color saturation.
- Evolution
- Progression from smaller, wispy works toward larger, complex allegorical compositions with increased material experimentation; recent 2024-2026 series (Doubled readers (mooncycle), Holding snake bundle (Bayeux strip)) deepen archival/serial and time-based concerns.
- Influences
- Influences and References
- Medieval art and tapestriesPieter Bruegel and Hieronymus BoschWilliam BlakeFrancis BaconContemporary artists like EJ Hauser and Billy SullivanFilm stills and photographyQueer archival imagery
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- Visual Language
- Figure-ground interplay with soft edges; figures often dissolving/merging into dense botanical or earth grounds; analogous golden-amber/olive palettes, earth tones, warm saturated fields; geometric/web linework in upper/sky zones.
- Themes and Subjects
- Core
- Queer identity, intimacy and tendernessIntergenerational queer experience and AIDS-crisis remembranceMemory, archives and historical narrativeTime - felt vs ordered experience (2026 metronome yawned thesis)Domestic/intimate spacesArt-historical recontextualization (Bayeux tapestry, Blake, hagiographic icons)
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- Fingerprint Agreement
- Low-coherence/varied fingerprint reflects genuine stylistic breadth (intimist botanical pastorals vs luminous Neo-Expressionist dissolutions), not unreliability - consistent with multi-sub-style practice confirmed by sources.
- Movements and Periods
- Contemporary (2010-present); contemporary figurative / queer figuration.
- Techniques and Mediums
- Fingerprint Note
- Verifies Egon fingerprint: glazing, soft edges, figure-ground, tender/contemplative mood, body/intimacy/nature themes all confirmed by 2025-2026 works (e.g., bad news delivered (the veil), 2025, oil on linen, 72x72 in).
- Confirmed Signals
- Oil on canvas/linen with layered translucent glazes building botanical density; alla prima flesh passages; scumbled figure passages over luminous grounds; incised/drawn linear marks; also detailed colored-pencil/graphite-and-ink works on paper; collage-based preparatory process.
- Signature Techniques
- Fluid brushstrokes creating atmospheric environmentsLuminous, phosphorescent color paletteDetailed colored pencil drawingsLayered compositions combining multiple visual referencesCollage-based preparatory process
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Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Summary
- Sustained tier-1 and specialist critical attention spanning Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, The London Magazine, Cultured Magazine, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, Frieze, and the New York Times.
- Monograph
- Year
- 2024
- Title
- Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret
- Publisher
- Phaidon
- Significance
- First comprehensive monograph, major publisher
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- Recent Features
Note Publication Feature tied to Semiose show; analyzes blending of art-historical and personal references (e.g., William Blake citation in Blake Moon) Hyperallergic French-press new-talent painting features around Drawing Now Paris Numero / Beaux-Arts Magazine - Academic Attention
- Inclusion in scholarly essays in exhibition catalogues and monograph
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- Art Historical Positioning
- Positioned within contemporary queer figurative painting examining the relationship between figuration and its historical precedents.
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- Publications and Media
- Note
- Wikipedia entry now exists, indicating broadening public/reference recognition.
- Monograph
- Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret (Phaidon, 2024) - first comprehensive monograph
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- Major Publications
Publication Type Artforum Reviews and features Brooklyn Rail Critical reviews Frieze Artist interview New York Times — Artsy — Hyperallergic Exhibition reviews Wallpaper Feature coverage
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Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Note
- Continued presence via GRIMM and Hales at major fairs (Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze London, The Armory Show, Art Brussels in prior cycles). No new 2025-2026 fair booth confirmed in this research pass.
- Representation
- Note
- MutualArt notes Cudahy work has been featured by David Zwirner, New York - reflects a group/secondary context, not primary representation; primary representation remains GRIMM/Hales/Semiose.
- Current
Locations Gallery Recent Since Amsterdam, London, New York GRIMM Solo ceaseless arranger, Amsterdam, 2025 2022 London, New York Hales Gallery Co-presented Fools errand / Fools gold (with GRIMM), NY, 2024; active acquisition announcements (Portland Museum of Art, BMA) 2021 Paris Semiose Continued Paris-market presence 2020-2021 - Note Meta
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- Status 2026
- STABLE - no representation changes. Continues with three galleries across four cities / three continents.
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- Gallery Stability
- Strong - multi-gallery representation across three continents with coordinated exhibition strategy. No gallery changes since initial representations 2020-2022, indicating stable relationships and market confidence.
- Gallery Tier Analysis
- Mid-tier representation with strong international footprint across three major art capitals (New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris). All galleries have robust exhibition programs, fair presence, and institutional relationships. Representation structure indicates coordinated international strategy.
- Geographic Reach
- Works distributed via representing galleries across New York, London, Amsterdam, and Paris, with institutional reach now extending to Canada (Esker Foundation, Calgary, 2026). Gallery shows frequently sell out.
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