ROBERT FLACK . Part 1
Courtesy of the Estate of Robert Flack, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, The CCCA Canadian Art Database and everyone who made this presentation possible.
Robert Flack was born in Guelph, Canada in 1957 and died in Toronto, Canada in 1993. He received his BFA from York University in 1980 and attended Sheridan College in 1984.
In 1980, Flack began working at Art Metropole. Soon after, he began to exhibit his artwork at Toronto galleries and in 1982 was included in a two-person exhibition with Chrysanne Stathacos at Chromazone, a space co-founded by Andy Fabo.
Flack’s work was deeply concerned with internalized realms of psychic energy, the chakras, and the etheric body, which was influenced by the experience of his HIV seroconversion in 1988.
While he was based in Toronto, Robert Flack also lived and worked in New York. There, he had regular solo and group exhibitions at Feature, Inc.
Flack exhibited nationally and internationally at spaces such as Das Institut Unzeit, West Berlin; Artist Space, Sydney; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Rutgers University Museum, New Jersey and W139, Amsterdam.
His work was included in several exhibitions organized after his death such as “Time is Thirsty,” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; “Tributes and Tributaries 1971-1989,” Art Gallery of Ontario; “Par Amour/Paramour,” National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art; “Standing Ground” (with Will Munro), Paul Petro Contemporary Art; “The Temptation of AA Bronson,” Witte de With, Rotterdam and The Cold City Years, The Power Plant.
Robert Flack’s estate is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.