EDUCATION
2011-2014 University of New Orleans Fine Arts
2003-2007 Studio Assistant to Abstract Minimalist painter/sculptor Peter Lobello
Since 1989 Study under the mentorship of Surrealist painter/sculptor Pedro Friedeberg
1983-2012 Pilot First Class Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River
1980-1981 Intaglio Printmaking, Galveston College
1977-1981 Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M, B.S. Marine Transportation
EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Mata.Morphic" Callan Contemporary, New Orleans LA
2019 “Art Flow” Capital Park Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 “Surreal Salon 11” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2018 “Exposición de Arte Jaguar” presented by Centro Cultural Mizrahi
Centro Maguen David AC, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 “Phosphorescence & Fluorescence” Black Light Exhibition, Curator: Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2018 “30 New Orleans Artists” Tricentennial Exhibition, Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 “VIBRENSE” Group Exhibition, Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2018 “Surreal Salon 10” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2017 “Down By The River: P.S. Satellite - Project of Prospect New Orleans Rivertown, Kenner, LA
2017 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Lemieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 “Louisiana Contemporary” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2017 “Surreal Salon 9” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2016 “The Dog Show” Studio Inferno, Arabi, LA
2016 "K'Iben De La Selva" Group Exhibition, Pinacoteca Jenkins, Puebla, Mexico
2016 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Lemieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 “Quantum Noûs” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2016 “Louisiana Contemporary” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2016 "K'Iben De La Selva" Group Exhibition with Pedro Friedeberg, Galería Casa Diana, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2016 NOCCA Visiting Artists Exhibition, Kirchman Art Space, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, LA
2015 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Lemieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 "Stygian" Group Show, NOLA Community Print Shop, New Orleans, LA
2015 ARTi(FICTION): The Battle of New Orleans, Group Show Studio Inferno Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 "Atemporal Macramé" Group show Prospect New Orleans, P3+satellite 723
Louisa Street Digest, New Orleans, LA
2014 “Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2014 “Louisiana Contemporary” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2014 “Qualia” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2013 “Demasiado No Es Suficiente” Group Show with Pedro Friedeberg, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2007 NOLA Rising Group Show, US Mint, New Orleans, LA
2006 Galería Casa Diana, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2006 Commission for video production backdrop and DVD cover for Cesio Lima, Director of Photography, Rede Globo,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2006 New Orleans Museum of Art "Black and White Vertical", collaboration with Peter Lobello
2006 New Orleans Museum of Art "Triptych" 15 ft x 5 ft
2001 Galería Friedeberg, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1993 Icon altarpiece for Milton Nascimento's production of "Missa d'America Negra” (Missa Dos Quilombos), Belo Horizonte
and Sao Paulo, Brazil
1992 Icon altarpiece for Milton Nascimento's production of "Missa d'America Negra (Missa Dos Quilombos) performed at the
Apostolo Festival in Santiago de Capostella, Spain
1981 Mural 20 ft x 12 ft for Student Union, Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M at Galveston
1981 Rosenberg Library, Galveston College Exhibit, Galveston Texas
1980 Rosenberg Library, Galveston College Exhibit, Galveston Texas
1979 Mural of Dali's "Disappearing Bust of Voltaire at a Slave Market", MV Texas Clipper (sunk as manmade reef off coast
of Corpus Christi, TX, November 17, 2007)
ART FAIRS
2018 Scope Miami Beach
2017 Scope Miami Beach
2015 Scope Miami Beach
2015 Houston Fine Art Fair
2014 Scope Miami Beach
2014 Houston Fine Art Fair
PUBLICATIONS
“Surrealism and the Subjective: James Flynn” Eben Benson, Juxtrapoz.com/Painting, April 2019
New American Paintings No.118, Volume 20, Issue 3, June/July 2015
"K'Iben De La Selva” bilingual edition by Diana Friedeberg 2015New American Paintings #118 June/July 2015
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Alex Hailey
Jimmy Cliff
Rita Marley
Milton Nascimento
Pedro Friedeberg
Peter Lobello
Cesio Lima
Capt. Fabio Fontes
Capt. Lembit Noel
Ivan Dragecevic (Medjugorje visionary)