Cynthia Greig

(b. 1959, Detroit, USA)

Cynthia Greig was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied printmaking at Washington University and attended graduate programs in art history and photography at the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan where she received her MA and MFA in 1988 and 1995 respectively.  She is the recipient of several major awards including the Light Work Artist Residency (2001), the Houston Center for Photography Fellowship (2003), the Santa Fe Center for Photography Singular Image Award (2004) and was a runner-up for the 2007 Aperture Prize.  In 2015, Greig received a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Kresge Foundation.