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