Rene Lynch Art

Rene Lynch was born in Decatur, Illinois. She studied painting and art history at Virginia Commonwealth University, the business of art, a curatorial studies program at New York University and printmaking at Manhattan Graphics Center. Lynch has been awarded several fellowships, including, two fellowships from PS1 Museum of Modern Art, four fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and two fellowships from Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany and AIR Ruhpolding in Germany, also The Manhattan Graphic Center for printmaking, and the Millay Colony and twice from Soaring Gardens and Palenville InterArts among others. She has been invited to give Artists Talks in Germany, the USA and Japan. Lynch is co-founder, director and curator of Metaphor Contemporary Art with Julian Jackson. Since 2001, they have presented over 90 solo and group exhibitions of new works by hundreds of artists at their Brooklyn, New York gallery and at several international art fairs, placed numerous works in private and public collections including US Embassies, banks, hotels and hospitals, published several exhibition catalogs and presented numerous artists’ and critics’ talks and panel discussions. In 2017 Lynch and Jackson co-curated with HPGRP Gallery, the New York Art Lab with 35 artists in Osaka, Japan and curated and produced recent art auction benefits, involving hundreds of artists. Lynch has also solo curated exhibitions with catalogs at Lesley Heller Workspace, Abrons Art Center, Silicon Gallery in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, Marymount Manhattan College and Islip Art Museum. Lynch and Jackson provide art consultation services on a project basis.