Cynthia Lahti

Image of artwork by Cynthia Lahti — Dotty, 2024
Ceramic figure
17 × 12 × 9 inches

Image of artwork by Cynthia Lahti — Pink Toe, 2025
Ceramic figure
18 × 17 × 8 inches

Image of artwork by Cynthia Lahti — Orange Boots, 2025
Ceramic sculpture
17 × 22 × 14 inches

Image of artwork by Cynthia Lahti — Salmon mouth, 2024
Ceramic figure with wood base
14 ½ × 4 × 6 inches

About

Born 1963 Portland, OR
Lives and works in Portland, OR

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Exhibitions

Cynthia Lahti

Trouble

Jan 10–Feb 14, 2026

5015 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles

Cynthia Lahti

Little Storms

Dec 1, 2023–Jan 13, 2024

55 Delancey St, New York

News

2023

Dec 20
Cynthia Lahti in Sculpture Magazine
The 13 ceramic figures in Cynthia Lahti’s Little Storms—many of them missing a head or limb—strike various poses on their white plinths, each animated female form elevated to meet the viewer’s eye.
Dec 13
Cynthia Lahti in The New York Times
There’s a contrary beauty to Cynthia Lahti’s gloopy ceramic figures, like some romantic ideal chewed on and emerging gnarled, but more emotionally recognizable for it. Her figures appear like dazed Meissen porcelains, jolted from their lives of leisure into messier, more honest ones.
Nov 27
Cynthia Lahti in Cultured
Little Storms marks the artist’s debut solo exhibition in New York. Straying from her work across metal, glass, plaster, and collage, Lahti here sculpts out of clay, which provides greater opportunity for spontaneity, a theme present throughout the show. Also apparent is the push and pull between perfection and imperfection, intentionality and organic creation.

2024

Jan 7
Cynthia Lahti in Hyperallergic
This gallery of ceramic figures is most interesting when the imagery starts to bleed and morph into something less recognizable. Some images feel like snapshots of moments, while others seem to wander through an art museum and its familiar poses.