Colin Fleck

Bio

Born in 1989, in San Diego, California, Colin Fleck is a contemporary painter and artist.
From ages three to eighteen, Colin lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, until he began college in 2008 at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Fleck received his BA in Philosophy with honors in 2012 and then decided to pursue his dream of a life in the arts. He moved to Los Angeles in January of 2013 where he attended Art Center College of Design and achieved his BFA with honors from the school’s illustration and design program in 2016. Following his time at ACCD, Fleck began showing and selling his paintings in the greater Los Angeles area, participating in group shows, including the Laguna Art Museum’s annual curated art auction, California Cool. In 2019 Colin began his MFA work at San Francisco Art Institute. Following the institution’s untimely collapse in 2020, he then transferred mid-pandemic, to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he completed his MFA in Studio Arts in 2021.  Since his graduation, Fleck has shown his work in Chicago and abroad, including his debut solo show at Flxst contemporary gallery in April of 2022. Colin currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Statement

Fleck’s work primarily focuses on open-ended surrealist narratives. He aims to create a feeling of fanciful whimsy while hinting at social commentary. His imaginative works are populated with meaningful symbols, borrowed from personal experience, mythology, and commonly used icons. Animal-human hybrids, golden peaches, and pink monkeys exist in contradictory landscapes where nothing and everything belongs.

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