SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

2025

Rachel Gallaher, Frye Art Museum hosts vibrant, fresh show from Seattle artist Dawn Cerny, Seattle Times, 1.10.2025

Lindsay Costello, The Best Things to Do in Seattle The Month: January 2025, The Stranger, 1.2.2025

Margo Vansynghel, Must-see Seattle art exhibits, events and more for 2025, Seattle Times, 1.2.25

Shane McAdams, Looking Back on 2024 in Art, Shepherd Express, 1.2.25



2024

Shane McAdams, “Dawn Cerny’s ‘Coconut Effect’ at Hawthorn Contemporary,” Shepherd Express, 3.15.24

Cerny Interview with artist Harriet Salmon, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2.24.2024

Interview Hawthorn Gallery YouTube 3.10.2024



2023

Sarah Hotchkiss, “The Best Art I Saw In 2023…Most Excellent Object,” KQED, San Francisco, 12.5.2023

Jenny Gill, “In the Studio: Dawn Cerny,” Joan Mitchell Foundation Journal, 5.13.2023

Kat Herriman, Collector Seth Stolbun on Why Financing Art Is As Exhilarating as Buying It, Cultured magazine, 4.20.2023

Robert Boyd, “Every art scene needs a champion. Houston has Adam Marnie,” CHRON, 1.17.2023



2021

Bob Hicks,  “2021: A Year of Looking at Things,” Oregon ArtsWatch,  12.30.21

Emily Zimmerman, Embodying Interior Lives: Dawn Cerny Interview,” Bomb, 9.13.21

Lindsay Costello, Balancing Acts: Dawn Cerny at Melanie Flood Projects” Oregon  ArtsWatch, 6.1.21

“Portland must see: Dawn Cerny,”  Artforum,  5.2021

Matthew Offenbacher, “Dawn Cerny: Weeping Willow Folding Chair,” Variable West, 4.23.2021

Megan Burbank,  “Dawn Cerny at Seattle Art Museum,”  Seattle Times,  4.29. 2021



2018

Graham McKay, “Living as Art,” misfits’ architecture blog, 9.9.2018

Stephanie Snyder, “Critics Pick; Dawn Cerny at Portland Art Museum,” Artforum, 1.16.2018

 

2017

Adam Rothstein, “Through the Orbit of Furniture,” Dawn Cerny at Portland Art Museum,”  International Sculpture Center blog, 12.27.2017

Brian Bergen-Aurand, “Walk. Use Your Library Voice. And Don’t Touch.” Dawn Cerny at the Henry Art Gallery, foreigninfluence.com, 5.27.2017

Erika Schultz, “Sorting out “Fun. No Fun.’ at Henry Art Gallery,” Seattle Times, 4.10.2017

Travis Vogt, “The Comedic Architecture of Dawn Cerny,” City Arts, 3.23.2017

 

2016

Josh Hughes, “Low and Slow: Mouth A Grape” Dawn Cerny at Viking Union Gallery,” The AS Review, 11.8.2016

Michael Wilson, “Nancy Shaver,” Artforum International, Vol 55 (3), Nov. 2016



2015

Erin Langner, “Endless Summer: Prolonged Moments Among SEASON Gallery’s paintings,” New American Paintings Blog, 8.31.2015

Jen Graves, “Dawn Cerny, 2015 Stranger Genius Award Nominee in Visual Arts,” The Stranger, 6.10.15



2013

Jen Graves, “Dawn Cerny’s Blankets and Pietas: Give a Thought to Mary This Year,The Stranger Slog, 12.24.2013

Steel Stillman, “Figuring it Out: Bard’s Low-Residency Program,” Brooklyn Rail, 12.12 – 1.13.2013

 

2011

Joe Nolanith, “The messy and the mysterious come together in Cerny’s black-comedic work, which is by turns trashy, flashy, energized and elegiac,” Nashville Scene; 9.1.2011 

Jen Graves, “Tender and Smash: A Web of Sculptures and Drawings by Dawn Cerny and Adam Marnie,” The Stranger, 4.6. 2011

Brad Bynum, “Light Comes Shining…,” Reno News & Review, 10.14.2010

Sheila Farr, “Bigger isn’t necessarily better,” The Seattle Times, 3.12.2008

Frances DeVuono, “Dawn Cerny at the Henry Art Gallery,” ArtWeek, 4.20.2008

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGS / PUBLISHED WRITINGS

2023

Dawn Cerny, Index of Tabletop Sculpture, essay, exhibition pamphlet, RITE EDITIONS, S.F., CA

2022

Jorden Howland and Andy Le, Remark, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle WA, pages 150– 151

2020

Bean Gilsdorf, Making A Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice, Lewis & Clark Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

Ann Leda Shapiro, Girlfriends of the Guerrilla Girls, Seattle WA, COCA, Pages 32-33

Dawn Cerny, ‘5225 Figueroa Mt. Rd,’ essay, F magazine: Real Estate issue, Houston, TX, Pages 14-15

2019

Dawn Cerny, First Sight, online publication from independent curator Anne Couillaud

2018

Grace Kook-Anderson, Apex 10 Years, Portland OR, Portland Art Museum, Pages 204-208

Melissa Feldman, Neddy Artist Fellowship, Seattle, WA Pages 30-33

Dawn Cerny, ‘Orgone Test: chock full of vitamins,’ F magazine: Paranoia issue, Los Angeles, CA, Pages 24-25

2017

Contributor, ‘Prompt’ Short Run Seattle Anthology, Cold Cube Press

Natalie Labriola, Journal of Psychic Protection, Vol. I, Los Angeles CA, Pages 71-74

2013

Dawn Cerny, Adam Marine and Tuomas Korpijaakko, SH T II, self-published

Eric Fredricksen, 8 ½ x 10 Western Bridge, Seattle WA, Western Bridge, Page 40-41

Dawn Cerny Interplay, Grounded Magazine, Online Publication

2012

Dawn Cerny, I Want to Believe, self-published artist book

Dawn Cerny, A Void A Cave, self-published artist book

Kathleen Rabel, Ink On Paper: The Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection, Pages 36-37

Dawn Cerny, ‘Put your love down there,’ essay on Jeffry Mitchell’s sculpture Tomb of Club Z, Closed Fist Open Hand, Norda Press, Seattle, WA, Pages 14-19

Dawn Cerny, Contributor and Co-Guest Editor of La especial Norda #9, Norda Press, Seattle

2011

Dawn Cerny, Adam Marine, and Tuomas Korpijaakko, SH T, self-published

Bradley Rubenstein, Sweet Love Falling Like A Pale Blue Light, Season, Seattle, WA

2010

Marjorie Vecchio PhD, Every Distance is Not Near, Reno NV, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery University of Nevada Reno, Pages 9-11

2009

Dawn Cerny and D.W. Burnam, ‘More Hall Annex’ La Especial Norda #5; Norda Press, Seattle, WA

2006

Rock Hushka, Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma WA, Tacoma Art Museum, Page 12

2005

Fionn Meade, ‘And They Will Know by Their Own Making,Release & Capture; Contemporary Paperworks, Kirkland WA, Kirkland Art Center, Pages 5-6