PAST PROJECT

Robert Flynn

Born October 25, 1967
Died September 23, 2007

www.robert-flynn.com

Robert Flynn received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

Flynn's work was exhibited in several group and solo shows across the country since the early 1990s.

Flynn's late work was heavily influenced by gardening, yard work and the competition in American culture for the "trophy lawn." Creating sculpture, drawings and paintings that celebrated the various elements of the yard, Flynn objectified nature – making the backyard a modern day fetish.

Flynn's work can be found in collections across the country, such as Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; University of Miami, Naples, FL; Cisneros Capital Group, Miami, FL; Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; Key Largo Grand Resort; Marriott Corporate Collection; Neiman Marcus Corporate Collection; Miami Dade Public Library; Omni Hotel, Orlando; Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI.

awards

2006/97 Artist Fellowship: Florida Individual Artist Award
2000 Tigertail Artist Award
Chestler Contemporary Visual Artist Award / Dade Community Foundation
1996 Artist Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts / Southern Arts Federation

one person exhibitions

2007 Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Verdure, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
Special Summer Time Offer, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Lot Lines, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Garden Variety, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 Elements: Selections from 1992-2002, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Spiller Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Peep, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2000 Wallpaper, Miami International Airport, Florida-Brazil Festival
1998 Marked, The Chocolate Factory, London, UK
1997 New Works, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1996 Fancy, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
New Works, Alliance Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1994 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

selected group exhibitions

2006 Au Courant, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Images on the Edge; Interpreting the American Coastline, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
Home and Garden, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterrey, CA
2005 All-Terrain, Average Industries, Miami, FL
A New View, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
Between the Lines, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL
2004 Mark Humphrey Gallery, Southampton, NY
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Miami Rocks, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts, Loveladies, NJ curated by Barbara Frank
2002 Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
The Miami Alphabet, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
Mark Humphrey Gallery, South Hampton, NY
2001 New Works, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Subdivisions, Art800, Miami Beach, FL catalog
2000 Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
curated by Bonnie Clearwater, director/chief curator, catalog
Summer Works, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Home Invasion, Eugenia Vargas, Miami, FL
Down to Earth, MIA Gallery, Miami, FL catalog
Second Nature, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL catalog
Departing Perspectives, Espirito Santo bldg, curated by Fred Snitzer/Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
1999 The Art of Work/The Work of Art, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
1998 Florida Fellowship Exhibition (traveling), various museums of art within Florida
Press and Palette, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL
2 x 2, Groundlevel Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1997 Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment of the Arts 1996-7, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art(SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC
From the Core, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Transition/Transformation, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Random Impressions, Artsite, Miami Beach, FL
1996 MTV'S Real World Miami, Miami Beach, FL
Town and Country, National Union of Artists, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Work, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1995 Sprawl, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1994 Best of Show, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
1993 Sprawl, Space Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
By Foul Subtraction, Jersey City College Museum of Art, Jersey City, NJ

juried exhibitions

2006 All Florida Juried Competition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton FL curated by Anne Ellegood, Hirschorn Museum
2005 All Florida Juried Competition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL curated by Louis Grachos, Albright-Knox Museum
2003 Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Frontiers, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL curated by Mark Coetze, director Rubell Collection
2002 New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
Art Encounter 2002, von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL curated by Bonnie Clearwater
1999 Hortt 41, Museum of Art, Ft Lauderdale, FL
1997 Tool, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL
Art Picks, Art 1037, Miami Beach, FL
1995 The Florida National, FSU Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL
1993 The Florida National, FSU Museum of Art, Tallahasee, FL
1992 The Figure as Muse, Artworks Gallery, Trenton, NJ
1990 The Florida National, FSU Museum of Art, Tallahassee, FL

books folios

1998 Half & Half, edition of 10, Variety Editions, Miami Beach, FL
One Percent, edition of 10, Variety Editions, Miami Beach FL
AKA: Place/Displace, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1993 Continental Drift, Arm and Roller Press, Tallahassee, FL

commissions

2003 Marriott Hotel, Orlando, FL
2002 Miami MetroZoo, Art in Public Places finalist, Miami, FL
2001 Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2000 Miami International Airport, Florida-Brazil Festival/Tigertail Productions, Miami, FL
Neiman-Marcus, Palm Beach, FL

public + corporate collections

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; University of Miami, Naples, FL
Baker Hostetler LLP, Orlando, FL
The Bath House, Miami Beach, FL
Cisneros Capital Group, Miami, FL
Colonial Bank, Miami, FL
Edwards & Angels LLP, West Palm Beach, FL
Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA
Marriott Corporate Collection
National Bank of the Bahamas
Nieman Marcus Corporate Collection (Coral Gables, Dallas, Las Vegas, Orlando, Palm Beach, Tampa)
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
Miami Dade Public Library
Omni Hotel, Orlando
Steven L Hearn, P.A., Tampa, FL
White & Case LLP, Miami, FL
Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

bibliography

2007 Contemporary Miami Artists, Shiffer Publishing
Margery Gordon, ArtNews, The Grass Isn't Greener, February 2006
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, 2006
Drew Sterwald, The News-Press, Interpreting the American Coastline, Jan 20, 2006
Kyle MacMillan, The Denver Post, Verdure, June 23, 2006
2005 Lindsey Westbrook, ArtNews, A New View, September 2005
Cherie Louise Turner, Artweek, A New View, July / August 2005
2004 American Art Collector, southeast edition, 2004
2003 Birds in Art 2003, Woodson Art Museum, exhibition catalog
2002 New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Spring 2002
2001 Bonnie Clearwater, Making Art in Miami; Travels in Hyperreality, exhibition catalog, MoCA
Necee Regis, Youngish and Hyperreal, Miami Art Exchange, January 1, 2001
Arthur Fagan, Not Forever Blowing Bubbles, Miami Art Exchange, March 14, 2001
Steve Bollman, Subdivisions, exhibition catalog, Artcenter South Florida
Nina Korman, New Times, Avian Etchings, January 4, 2001
Micheal Mills, New Times Broward Palm Beach, Crowded House, March 8, 2001
Kathleen Krog, The Miami Herald, Urban Revival 101
Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Gallery Stroll…, March 25, 2001
2000 Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, The Artful Home, January 16, 2000
Alfredo Triff, New Times, Art in the Airport, June 1, 2000
Bayard Stern, Florida State Times, Miami Artist..., November 2000
1999 Roni Feinstein, Art in America, Miami Heats Up, November 1999
Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald Art and Architecture, Nov 1, 1999
Lou Anne Colodny, John Dorschner, The Art of Work/The Work of Art, exhibition catalog
Lou Anne Colodny, Summer Sites, exhibition catalog
Gean Moreno, Art Papers, 2 x 2, Jan/Feb 1999
1998 Karen Valdes, 1997-8 Florida Fellowship Exhibition Catalog
Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, "An Artsy Link Between Brooklyn, Miami Beach," September 18
1997 Robert Flynn: Recent Works, Cindric Meyer Gallery, exhibition catalog
Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Gramercy Art Fair, January 1997
Sean Gibbons, Southern Arts Federation, National Endowment for the Arts Exhibition Catalogue
1996 Micheal Farver, XS Magazine, Best of Gallery, September 1996
Armondo Alvarez Bravo, El Nuevo Herald, Premiado en La Playa, August 1996
Christina Ortega, The Miami Herald, Artist Wins Regional Award, August 1996
Jackie Potts, The Miami Herald, Real South Florida Artists, July 1996
1995 Combined Talents; The Florida National 1995, Exhibition Catalogue
Christina Ortega, The Miami Herald, Printmakers..., August 1995
1993 Barbara Lynn Perry, The Florida Flambeau, Bovine Experience, September 1993
The Florida National 1993, exhibition catalogue
1992 Peggy Lewis, ArtMatters, The Figure as Muse, March 1992
Bad Milk Law, video exhibition catalogue, Rutgers University
1991 Evelyn Apgar, The Home News, He Loved Broadway Shows, June 1991
1990 The Florida National 1990, exhibition catalogue

artwork shown without editorial

Happy Coincidence, Coastal Living, Jan 2006
2004 House Beautiful, All Revved Up, Oct 2004
Florida International, Morningside, April 2004
2002 Nest Magazine, Spring 2002
Accent Miami, Issue 2, 2002
2000 Susan Slesin, Casa Vogue Brasil, June 2000
Susan Slesin, House & Garden, The Acid Test, April 2000