JAMES FLYNN
Education
2011-2014 University of New Orleans Fine Arts
2003-2007 Studio Assistant to Abstract Minimalist painter/sculptor Peter Lobello
1989-Present Study under mentorship of Surrealist painter/sculptor Pedro Friedeberg
1983-2012 Pilot First Class -- Mississippi River Bar Pilot
1982 USCG Third Mate Unlimited Oceans Unlimited Tonnage
1980-1981 Intaglio Printmaking, Galveston College
1977-1981 Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M, B.S. Marine Transportation
Solo Exhibitions
2026 “Thresholds of Perception” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2023 “The Superposition of the Particle-Wave” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 “Pareidolia” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 “Meta • Morphic” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2016 “Quantum Noûs” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2014 “Qualia” Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
Group Exhibitions
2025 “Silver Lining Exhibition” Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2025 “With Bated Breath” Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2024 “BRG@BTR” Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 “Black Light + White Linen” Black Light Exhibition Curator Studio Waveland Gallery,
Waveland, MS
2023 “#3D Mississippi Sculpture” Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2023 “Escapism as a Mirror to the Soul” Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2022 “Surreal Salon 15” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2022 “Renascence of the Corn Maidens” Installation, “Remember the Earth?”
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2022 “The Mind’s Eye” Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, Baton Rouge, LA
2022 “The Members Show” Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL
2022 “As We Heal” Second Story Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 “Surreal Salon 14” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 “Behind Every Beautiful Thing” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2021 “Members Only” Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 “BRG@BTR” Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Baton Rouge, LA
2021 “Iridescence” Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
2020 “Louisiana Contemporary” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2020 “Art Flow” Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
2020 “Surreal Salon 12” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
2019 “El Jaguar En El Subconsciente Colectivo” Espacio Nezly Cohen, Aristoteles 165,
Mexico City, Mexico
2019 “Memento Mori” Second Story Gallery, 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” 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" Pinacoteca Jenkins, Puebla, Mexico
2016 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Lemieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 “Louisiana Contemporary” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2016 "K'Iben De La Selva" 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" 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" 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
2013 “Demasiado No Es Suficiente” Exhibition 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"
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 for Student Union, Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M at Galveston
1981 Rosenberg Library, Galveston College Exhibit, Galveston TX
1980 Rosenberg Library, Galveston College Exhibit, Galveston TX
1979 Mural of Dali's "Disappearing Bust of Voltaire at a Slave Market", MV Texas Clipper (sunk as man-made reef off coast of Corpus Christi, TX, November 17, 2007)
Residencies
2024 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
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 2015
Private and Public Collections
Pedro Friedeberg
Alex Hailey
Jimmy Cliff
Rita Marley
Milton Nascimento
Roger Ogden & Ken Barnes
Peter Lobello
Ivan Dragecevic
CrescentCare Midcity Clinic New Orleans, LA
Casa Da Esperança, Sao Paulo, Brazil