Photo: Kelsy Barbor Photography

Artist Bio

Arden Cone, an artist born and raised in South Carolina, unpacks the historical narratives that inform the varied identities, viewpoints, and experiences framing contemporary American culture. Through her paintings and sculptures, she excavates core truths and fallacies from the accepted narrative of American history.

 In 2012, Cone received degrees in Studio Art and Spanish graduating summa cum laude from Hollins University and earning her way into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. In 2018, she received her MFA from Boston University’s Painting Program.

Cone was recently selected as an artist in residence for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s 2024 Active Archive Residency. She has also completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Pike School of Art, and Chautauqua Institute School of Fine Arts. She has exhibited her work widely across the U.S. and was named a finalist for the 2017 $10,000 Arthur & Dorothy Yeck Award at Miami University (Oxford, OH).  

 Cone has also written about art for publications, including BURNAWAY and The Brooklyn Rail.

Forthcoming, Cone has a solo exhibition at Greenville Center for Creative Arts and a curatorial project at Hollins Univeristy’s Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.