Frank Hyder

Frank Hyder was born in Audubon, NJ. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME.

Hyder has participated in more than 200 group shows and over 100 solo exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including ten individual exhibitions in New York City; in Venezuela at the Museum of Modern Art in Caracas, Museo Jacobo Borges, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, Museo de Artes-Universidad de los Andes, and Museo de Arte de Coro; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia; Carnegie Museum, Roseville, CA; National Museum of Catholic Art and History, Washington, DC; and The Noyes Museum of Art, Galloway Township, New Jersey.

Hyder is one of ten artists whose monumental inflatables formed the Giants in the City exhibition during Art Basel Miami in 2013. He also had a six-month exhibition at the Philadelphia International Airport. He was among 80 artists selected as part of an exhibition of graduates of the Maryland Institute College of Art celebrating the school's 160th anniversary. His Janis Project was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Art Students League of New York; and Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. He was selected to create a work for the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, and a ceramic installation in Oxnard, California. He has created numerous murals with the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia and an interactive project with the Chicago Transit Authority.

Hyder was chairman of fine arts and a faculty member at Moore College of Art & Design and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Hyder's works have been featured in the books Color in Contemporary Painting, The Art of Watercolor, The Song of the City, and Artist Homes and Studios. He lives and works in Miami, FL.
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