Cortney Cassidy is an artist and horticulturist using text, image, and time to study life as art in a natural world.
Brooklyn, New York cortneyvcassidy@gmail.com
2027
Certificate in Bookbinding, Center for Book Arts,
New York, New York
— status: accepted into 2027 cohort
learning
2026–present
Independent Researcher, Vartan Gregorian Center for Research
in the Humanities, New York Public Library, New York, New York
research
2026–present
Soft Publishing, Writing and the Photographic Image,
International Center of Photography, New York, New York
teaching
2025
Botanical Book launch, University Museum of Bergen
Botanical Garden, Bergen, Norway
reading
2025
Time Spent Writing is Never Wasted, Gloppen Library, Sandane, Norway
artist talk
2025
Inaugural Gardener-in-Residence, The Strange Foundation
Regenerative Retreats, Catskills, New York
residency
2025
Bergen Art Book Fair, Pamflett, Bergen, Norway
book fair
2024
Certificates in Plant Production and Sustainable Landscape
Management, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
learning
2024
Guest lecture, graduate seminar, Virginia Commonwealth
University, online
teaching
2024
Korte Metten, KIEKEN CENTRALE, Antwerp, Belgium
exhibition
2023–2025
Horticulturist, The High Line, New York, New York
horticulture
2023
Chicxulub, Rubus Discolor Project, Portland, Oregon
exhibition
2022
Our Red Book launch, McNally Jackson Books,
Seaport, New York, New York
reading
2022
Are.na Annual launch, online
reading
2022
Printing the Future: The Riso Revolution,
dieFirma, New York, New York
exhibition
2021–present
May Day, literary memoir and research project;
forthcoming 2028
ongoing work
2021
Cascade, Destelheide, Dworp, Belgium
exhibition
2020
SOOTHE, Sugarlift, New York, New York
exhibition
2020
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair, Blue Star Contemporary,
San Antonio, Texas
book fair
2019–present
Twelve Twenty Two, annual durational project made
each December 22 in honor of Bernadette Mayer’s
Midwinter Day
ongoing work
2019
Land and Sea, Oakland, California
reading
2019
Video Snack 7, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia
exhibition
2019
Fairweather Friends Fair, Austin, Texas
book fair
2018
99, Issue Press
edition
2018
Grafixx Zine Fest, De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium
book fair
2017
Bad People, Los Angeles, California
reading
2017
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore,
Oakland, California
reading
2017
Bad Store, Bad People, Los Angeles, California
exhibition
2017
Inselform, Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin, Germany
exhibition
2016
Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
reading
2015
Silent Barn, Brooklyn, New York
reading
2015
Little Paper Planes, San Francisco, California
reading
2015
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore,
Oakland, California
reading
2015
Wundercabinet Pop-Up Lecture Series, Haxan Film Festival,
Oakland, California
reading
2015
Feminist Book After Party, panel curated by Nicole Killian
and Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Women’s Center for Creative
Work, Los Angeles, California
panel
2015
CCOOLL IRL LA, Day Space Night,
Los Angeles, California
exhibition
2014
URL Meets IRL, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,
San Francisco, California
panel
2014
Here Is Me: Debbie Carlos & Cortney Cassidy,
City Limits, Oakland, California
exhibition
2013–2015
New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter,
New York, New York
book fair
2013–2015
Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Printed Matter,
Los Angeles, California
book fair
2012
Art Trek 9, Galerie Mekanik, Antwerp, Belgium
exhibition
2011–2015
CCOOLL, international art collective
collaboration
2010
Sight + Sound, NOMA Gallery,
San Francisco, California
exhibition
2008, 2010
San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, California
book fair
2009
BS, Graphic Design, Art Institute of California–San Francisco,
San Francisco, California
learning
2009
WE HAVEN’T FELT THIS WAY IN YEARS II,
Gallery Heist, San Francisco, California
exhibition
2009
TREE SHOW V, GRSF, San Francisco, California
exhibition