Rene Lynch

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 1998

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA (2003, 2001).

Website: https://renelynch.com/home.html

Rene Lynch’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including several solo exhibitions in Germany in Munich, Cologne, and Berlin with Galerie Kaysser; in New York City and San Francisco with Jenkins Johnson Gallery; and in Japan in Tokyo and Osaka with HPGRP Gallery. Additional New York City solos include Metaphor Projects, Bond Gallery, 490 Gallery, BOE, and MBM Gallery, and a large scale public art piece at One Main Window in Dumbo, Brooklyn. She has also presented major works at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, DFN Gallery, Lesley Heller Workspace, many years at “Take Home a Nude” for The New York Academy at Sotheby’s and numerous art fairs, and university galleries.

Recent museum exhibitions include a solo at Kunstlade Museum, Zittau, Germany, The Hunterdon Museum in Clifton, New Jersey twice. as a featured artist in Munich at the Haus der Kunst Contemporary Art Institute. PS1 Museum of Modern Art, New York City, The Kotonah Museum of Art, New York, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey. She currently has a painting in the exhibition “Beyond Suffrage” at The Museum of the City of New York. 

Lynch’s work has been featured and written about in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art and Antiques magazine, American Art Collector magazine, German Bunte magazine, Oxford American magazine, and NY Arts magazine among many other publications. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Russia and Japan.

Rene Lynch studied painting and art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, The Business of Art, Curatorial Studies Program, New York University, and Printmaking, Manhattan Graphics Center.

Lynch has been awarded several fellowships, including; two fellowships from MoMA PS1, four fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and two fellowships from Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Germany, and AIR Ruhpolding, Germany, also The Manhattan Graphic Center for printmaking, twice from Soaring Gardens, Pennsylvania, and Palenville InterArts, New York, among others.