Cory Blair’s art education has been influenced by visits at an early age in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to travels in Europe at the Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna. She received her Bachelor of Arts in 2016 from Hampshire College (USA), a radical institution that emphasizes alternative pedagogies over numerical grades. After graduating, she felt that although her understanding of art in a contemporary age was strong, she sought to deepen her perspective on technical painting and art history by studying with specific teachers and moving to Europe.
Her paintings are crafted in acrylic and oil on canvas using techniques from the Early Renaissance. Her work touches on classical and modern approaches to painting that waver on the edge of the metaphysical realm. Her influences range from 14th Century paintings to just before the dawn of modernism, and includes fantastical realism, contemporary realism, and the movement of visionary art.
Cory Blair has completed numerous public mural projects and has exhibited her work internationally in the US, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Greece. Her passion is driven by the beauty in nature and the unseen depths of human perception. She is a queer, Jewish, Swiss, third-generation American and is based in the vibrant city of Berlin, Germany.
events & exhibitions
Free Earth Festival, Greece, 2019
Visionary Art Trip Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
Visionarium Festival, Catalonia, 2019
Visionary Art Trip, Moscow, 2019
Projektraum 145, Berlin, 2018, 2019
O.Z.O.R.A. Festival, Hungary, 2018
Flicken Fahrradmarkt, Berlin 2017, 2018
VELOBerlin, Berlin, 2018
Visionary Arts Award, Moscow, 2018
Haight St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017
LEAF Festival, NC, 2017
EarthDance Healing Arts Program, FL 2016
SFHDC Music Festival, CA, 2016
Burning Man, NV, 2016
Harold F. Johnson Gallery, MA 2016
LEAF Downtown, NC, 2016
Three Days of Light Gathering, NC, 2016
Disc Jam Music Festival, MA 2014, 2015
Cosmic Alignment Festival of the Arts, NY, 2014, 2015
Wild Woods Music and Arts, NH, 2014, 2015
Janotta Gallery, MA, 2015
Hemp Festival, ME, 2014
F.A.R.M. Fest, NJ, 2014
Paradise Music and Arts Festival, KY, 2014
The Big Up Festival, NY, 2013
Fall Down Festival, CT, 2013