Artist Profile

Rob
Wynne

Artist Profile

Rob
Wynne

Rob Wynne (b. 1948, New York, NY) is an American visual artist who lives and works in New York City. He received his BA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions include Thence at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (2025); The Underside of a Leaf at Gavlak, Palm Beach (2024); Afterglow at Craig Starr Gallery, New York (2023); Prelude at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH (2024); and Always Sometimes at Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo (2024). Wynne’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Berkshire Botanical Garden (2025); the Boca Raton Museum of Art (2024); the McNay Art Museum, TX; P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; The Drawing Center, NY; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. Wynne’s work is held in major public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. A fully illustrated monograph, Obstacle Illusion, was published in 2023 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and is the first comprehensive survey of Wynne’s work from the 1970s to the present. Wynne is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.

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