Discipline: Visual Art

Robert Flynt

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Red Hook, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998

Robert Flynt’s work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and abroad since 1980. In 1992 it was featured in “New Photography” at MoMA in New York, where it is in the permanent collection, as well as in the Metropolitan Museum, International Center of Photography, LA County Museum of Art, MFA Houston, among many others.

Flynt has received fellowships from MacDowell, Light Work, Art Matters, Bogliasco (Italy), and Valparaiso (Spain). He has collaborated extensively with choreographers and performance artists at PS122, The Kitchen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Centre Pompidou, and elsewhere.

His monograph, Compound Fracture (Twin Palms) received a Best Books of the Year award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His work appears in numerous anthologies as well as art and photography journals worldwide.

While based in New York since 1980, Flynt has been a resident in the Hudson Valley since 1990, and in 2018 created a main studio space in Dutchess County.

Studios

Nef

Robert Flynt worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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