My name is Erin O'Flynn and I am a multi-media artist based in New York City. I am currently a MFA Photography Candidate for 2024 at Pratt Institute.
In my work, I use archival and original photography, films, and sculptural assemblages to reorient our relationship to our environment and the history embedded within it. It challenges traditional dichotomies, dissolving distinctions between the natural/manmade, decayed/developed, and virtual/physical in our environment. Throughout my creative practice, I have explored how to dissolve the common juxtapositions imposed onto human beings’ environments. My current body of work, Nuclear Family, dissolves the past/present binary of the legacy of nuclear war within the landscape of New York City and elsewhere. It explores the U.S. governments’ environmental degradation and responsibility, how images reveal/conceal knowledge within online platforms, and in what ways one can move towards a future of care for ourselves and environments.
erin.oflynn@gmail.com
Education
2024 MFA Photography, Pratt Institute — Brooklyn, NY2018 BA, Visual Arts (Photography) and Urban Studies, Fordham University — New York, NY
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2023 (forthcoming)It is exhausting trying to explain things you can barely see, Pratt Photography Gallery — Brooklyn, NY
2018
A Nice Square Shape, Ildiko Butler Gallery — New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021Anywhere But Here, The Canvas Bowery — New York, NY
2019
People’s Choice Salon, Greenpoint Gallery — Brooklyn, NY
Sacrifice with Zest, The Living Gallery — Brooklyn, NY
2018
Camera Work: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery — Portland, Or
100 Alumni, Lipani Gallery — New York, NY
ARTIST AWARDS/GRANTS
2022Pratt Institute, Graduate Merit Based Scholarship
2018
Ildiko Butler Travel Award
Fordham University, Undergraduate Research Grant
Phi Beta Kappa
Fordham University, Dean’s List
Fordham University, Jogues Merit Based Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2019Hecatombe Magazine, co-created
Sugar House, self-published zine
One Picture/One Paragraph, Saint Lucy
2017
Bricolage, Comparative Literature Journal, Fordham University
Documentary Photography: Italy 2016, Fordham University
I work as a freelance photo editor and illustrator and a portfolio is available upon request.