Biography
Queens-based artist Frances Hynes has established a distinguished exhibition history spanning five decades. Her career launched at the 1974 New Talent Festival, when Poindexter Gallery in New York first introduced her paintings, quickly followed by her debut solo exhibition at the same gallery. Since then, she has presented her work in over 40 solo exhibitions. In 2020-2021, The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY presented “Constellations,” while “The Wanderers,” featuring over 20 paintings, was exhibited at the Yeh Art Gallery of St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2021. Both exhibitions were documented with catalogs. The Garage Art Center in Bayside, NY also showcased her paintings in 2020.
Throughout her career, Hynes has held significant solo exhibitions at prominent institutions including The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 (now MoMA PS1) in Queens; Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York (1981-1995); and June Kelly Gallery, New York (1991-2017). Phyllis Stigliano Art Projects presented several shows of her work, and since 2011, Hynes has been represented by Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth and Portland, Maine.
Her recent group exhibitions include three invitational shows at the National Academy of Design and two at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Beginning in 1973 and notably in 2022, her work traveled internationally through the Art in Embassies Program based in Washington, D.C. Hynes participated in the National Workspace Program at the Institute for Art and Urban Resources (now MoMA PS1) in Queens. Her achievements have been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for painting and The Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for Painting from the National Academy of Design, New York.
Bio Courtesy of Frances Hynes