About
Flink in his St Paul Studio, 2022
BIO
Nathanael Flink is an artist based in Minnesota. He earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1994. Flink has been the recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in South Korea, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. He has exhibited in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, New York, Greece, California and in the midwest nationally. He is represented in Minnesota by Veronique Wantz gallery. His work is held in private collections in North America and Asia.
STATEMENT
A new direction has been emerging in my work in the last year that connects my past with the present. In a body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. The materials are stained or dyed in multiple bathings of color, then assembled. The fragments are combined together with various other fiber materials that have been treated or painted. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there is a juxtaposition of color, that operates on a dramatic level. It stems from memory, politics or emotive experiences.
CV
| Solo Exhibitions | |||
| 2024 | Catch My Drift, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga TN | ||
| 2024 | Falling Into Place, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis MN | ||
| 2022 | No Strings Attached, Anagram Gallery, Northfield MN (online) | ||
| 2020 | Uff Da Gestalt, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis MN | ||
| 2019 | The Distance Between, Gallery B, St. Paul MN | ||
| 2019 | Nathanael Flink, Central Air/Nomadic Art Space, Minneapolis MN | ||
| 2018 | Nathanael Flink, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids MN | ||
| 2017 | Teeth, Minnesota’s Smallest Museum, St. Paul MN | ||
| 2001 | Nathanael Flink 2001, curated by Park In Kwan, Gallery Picasso, Pusan, South Korea | ||
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Group Exhibitions |
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| 2023 | The Physical, The Unknown, The Familiar, Gallery 13 Aloft Hotel, Minneapolis | ||
| Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Gala, Ojai, California (upcoming) | |||
| One and Three Sculptures, NE Sculpture Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota curated by Tessa Wick | |||
| Hybridity, Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, New York curated by Audra Lambert | |||
| Future Tense, Gallery 13 Presents, Minneapolis | |||
| Get Lucky, Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis | |||
| 2022 | A Lack Of Discourse, Visual Lamentations, A-Mill curated by Tessa Wick | ||
| Art Mart, Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis | |||
| The Artful Present, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |||
| Summer Group Show, Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |||
| Video Night #1, curated by Joshua Mcgarvey | |||
| The Auction at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design | |||
| Pr0file, Foley Gallery, New York City, curated by Le Vey and Klay-James Enos | |||
| Geometric Gestures, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC (online) | |||
| Athens Open Art, Art Number 23, Athens, Greece | |||
| FRC12, Flat Rate Contempory (online), Richmond, Virginia | |||
| NOIR, The Royal Society of American Art (online), curated by Jason Clay Lewis and Amelia Biewald, Brooklyn, NY | |||
| 2021 | Put it in the Chat, Soo Visual Arts, curated by Carolyn Payne & Alison Hiltner | ||
| Recycle, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, curated by Renee Radenberg, NY | |||
| FAME, Ivy League Gallery (online), curated by Nicole Hoekstra, Mpls, MN | |||
| Get Lucky, Soo Visual Arts | |||
| 2020 | Open Door 15, Rosalux, curated by Todd Bockley, Minneapolis, MN | ||
| Holiday Art Sale, Soo Visual Arts | |||
| 2019 | The Dreamer Remembers, curated by Betsy Alwin, Here Project Space, St. Paul MN | ||
| 2018 | Minneapolis Art Lending Library Artists, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul | ||
| Art4Good Benefit Exhibition, Q.arma Building, Minneapolis | |||
| 2017 | TriTechA, Minneapolis Center for Digital Art, Minneapolis | ||
| 2016 | Tiny Art, Kolman Pryor, Minneapolis | ||
| Art Up Cycle, Kolman Pryor, Minneapolis | |||
| 2015 | Ripple Effect, Prøve Gallery, Duluth, MN | ||
| “REFINEDr” Benefit, Flow Art Space, St. Paul MN | |||
| Shoestring Theory, Space 369, St. Paul | |||
| 2001 | Art Shanty Projects Exhibition, Soap Factory, Minneapolis | ||
| Five Fundamentals, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN | |||
| White Oak Gallery, Edina, MN | |||
| 2000 | Annual Juried Exhibition, State of the Arts Gallery, Ithaca, New York | ||
| Juried Exhibition, PARTS Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – Juror: Martin Weinstein, "2nd place prize" | |||
| Corners Gallery, Ithaca, New York | |||
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Grants and Residencies |
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| 2016 | Knight Foundation, Arts Challenge Grant, St. Paul MN | ||
| 2000 | Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Fellowship MN | ||
| 1999 | Vermont Studio Center Residency & Fellowship | ||
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Other Artistic Activities |
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| 2022 | Corporate Art Force Artist, Minneapolis Convention Center | ||
| Minneapolis College of Art and Design Auction Committee | |||
| 2021 | Curator, "Contempo Tempo", NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Casket Arts | ||
| 2020 | Curator, "Material Dichotomy", NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Casket Arts | ||
| 2017 | Minneapolis Convention Center, Lending Artist, Corporate Art Force | ||
| 2016 | Organizer, Minneapolis Art Talk group | ||
| Elf Burger Zine, Co-creator | |||
| “Space 369” Project Space, Curator | |||
| “REFINEDr” Benefit, Flow Art Space, St. Paul MN | |||
| Minneapolis Art Lending Library, Lending Artist | |||
| 2015 | Phipps Center for the Arts, Healing Arts at Hudson Hospital, Wisconsin | ||
| The Auction at MCAD, Christie’s Auction House, Minneapolis, MN | |||
| 2002 | 5 Minutes of Fame, "Antler", video stream, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | ||
| Works held in private collections in North America and Asia. | |||
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Education |
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| Nathanael Flink was raised in St. Paul MN and received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1994) with an emphasis on painting and printmaking. | |||