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Claire R Lynch born in Arlington, VA

Currently a Studio Artist at Workhouse Arts Center in Virginia


Education

2019 Maryland Institute College of Art

MFA Rinehart School for Sculpture

2014 Stanford University

BA Art Practice


Juried Exhibitions

2025 Art Works, Richmond VA | Mental Health Matters

2025 Glen Echo Parks, Glen Echo MD |

54th Annual Labor Day Art Show

2025 Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern PA |

Art Ability International Juried Exhibition

2025 Wilson Arts Center, Wilson NC |

National Multi Media Juried Art Show

2025 d’Art Gallery, Denver CO | Spot On #6

2025 McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville VA |

Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibition

2025 d’Art Center, Norfolk VA | Surface: A National Juried

Exhibition of Unique Texture and Pattern

2025 Floyd Arts Center, Floyd VA | Make Your Mark

2025 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA | W6 Exhibition

2025 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA | Flourish

2019 Rhode Island Art League, RI | Twisting Fibers

2019 Fox Gallery 3, Baltimore MD | Dark Passenger

2019 Area 405, Baltimore MD | Honeysuckle Words

2018 CardinalSpace Gallery, Baltimore MD | Mirror

2016 Root Division, San Francisco CA | Annual Auction

2016 Art League, Santa Cruz CA | Fiber Art Show

2016 Root Division, San Francisco CA | Big Bash

2015 Root Division, San Francisco CA | Annual Auction


Solo Exhibitions

2025 Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA | Mixed State

2019 Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore MD |

Old Ruminations, Of Haunting Imaginations

2018 Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore MD |

Familiar Drift

2016 Root Division Residency, San Francisco CA |

Feathers

2014 Recology Residency, San Francisco CA |

Befriending Demons


Group Exhibitions

2019 Broadmead Retirement Community, MD |

Intersecting Spaces

2018 Sheila and Richard Riggs Gallery, Baltimore MD |

Freshly Picked Rhinos

2018 Hamilton Collective Arts Gallery, Baltimore MD |

Collective Presence

2017 Fox Gallery 3, Baltimore MD | Documented

2016 Ark Art Gallery, San Jose CA | Rock, Paper, Scissors

2016 Little Raven Gallery, San Francisco CA | Blue

2015 Stanford CA | Frame By Frame

2014 Stanford CA | Engineering Career Fair


Public Art

2019 Lake Roland Art on the Trail, Baltimore MD |

Feathers

2018 Valleyfest, Arlington VA | Shifts

2015 Pigott Theater, Stanford CA | Far Away


Awards

2019 International Sculpture Competition |

Nominated Outstanding Student Achievement

2019 Maryland Institute College of Art |

Sidney Lake Award

2017 Maryland Institute College of Art |

Graduate Merit Scholarship,

2016 Santa Cruz Art League |

Best in Show Contemporary Fiber Art Show

2014 Stanford University |

Louis Sudler Prize for Performing and Creative Arts


Artist-in-Residence

2024 - Workhouse Arts Center | Lorton VA

2016-17 Root Division | San Francisco CA

2014 Recology | San Francisco CA


Fellowships

2019 Maryland Institute College of Art |

Amalie Rothschild ’34

2018 Maryland Institute College of Art |

Perna Krick ‘31 and Reuben Kramer ‘32

2015-16   Root Division, San Francisco CA | Blau Gold Fellow


Publications

2025 Penn Journal of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2025

Edition | University of Pennsylvania.