1984 born in Indianapolis, US
lives and works in New York, US

In her conceptual work Cindy Hinant examines the mechanisms of celebrity culture and focuses on the image the tabloid press draws of female stars and starlets. She thwarts this very contemporary theme from the popular sphere with strategies and formal elements of minimal and post-minimal art. In the series «Celebrity Grid» for example Hinant drew subtle grid structures over selected magazine covers. What is common to all these covers is that they show a Hollywood beauty and boldly announce reports on their dramatic private affairs. The right-angled linear structure, on the one hand, neutralizes these publicly expolited dramas with sober regularity and, but on the other hand, it also squeezes them into a rigid form.