C. Finley

Founder and Curator of the Every Woman Biennial: C. Finley, based in New York City and Rome, is known for her elaborate paintings and intense use of color, monumental murals, multi-disciplinary collaborations, and her activism through urban art interventions, including her acclaimed Wallpapered Dumpsters. Initiating the Whitney Houston Biennial: I’m Every Woman 2014, followed by the 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial: Greatest Love Of All, Finley’s goal with the 2019 iteration the Every Woman Biennial is to expand the Biennial, starting with LA this year, and creating a model to be replicated worldwide in 2021. 

Finley has shown internationally with exhibitions at Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna; Superchief Gallery Los Angeles; Toth Gallery New York; Context/Art Miami; Scope Miami and New York; FDA Projects, Rome; High Energy Constructs and Salon Oblique, Los Angeles; and the  Dumba Collective, New York. Finley received her BFA from the Pratt Institute, New York and  her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. Her work has been featured in the The  New York Times, La Repubblica, Dazed, Fast Company, Women’s Wear Daily, LALA, and  more.