Cynthia Camlin studied painting as a post-baccalaureate student at Yale University and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Previously she received a BA from Duke University in English Literature and Art and an MA from the University of Virginia in Religious Studies. Camlin's work has been shown in numerous national and regional group and solo exhibitions. In 2003 she was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. She is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at Western Washington University. She previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Ringling College of Art and Design, and West Virginia University. From 2001 to 2004 Camlin was the founding director of Creative Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.

Open Monad, Section 1, 2005, dimensions variable, longest side 48”, watercolor, acrylic, on wood structure