Frank Hyder is a contemporary and world renowned American artist. He has participated in over 200 group shows and over 100 solo exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe, including 10 individual exhibitions in New York City. Â
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Meet Frank Hyder
Frank Hyder is a contemporary American artist who has made a name for himself with his unique works of art. Here are some interesting things about him:
He has created several public art works, including three murals through the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program: Hanging Garden of I-95, Honey’s Garden, and Bell’s Pond. Hyder’s fascination with the public sphere has manifested in a multimedia experience titled The Janis Project ….
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Frank Hyder’s impact on the world of art has left an indelible mark, drawing admiration and appreciation from a diverse array of individuals. Let’s hear what some of those who have experienced his art and career firsthand have to say about this visionary artist.
He still creates art like a young Turk, always outside the box and constantly refreshing his creativity with new concepts. Frank’s been making art since he was eight years old, sold his first painting at age 12 and has had more national and international solo museum exhibitions that anyone can shake a stick at. I call him the American Picasso? Because like Pablo, after he’s completed an impressive assemblage of work in one leitmotif, Hyder switches gears to another subject and a different art form, moving from seaside oils to sculptured wooden paintings to ephemeral see-through figures to self portraits glued on curved clear plastic illuminated by alternating colored neon lighting.
Myra Chanin, for Huffington Post
Hyder is a master of one of the oldest techniques for making images – woodcut. He is not inhibited by the fact that works of this sort are usually made on a fairly small scale. In addition, he has experimented with the most spontaneous form of printmaking, the monotype. He now uses a mixture of techniques, based on the idea of plunging the spectator into a primitive forest environment, or of asking him or her to complete the motions of a shoal of fish in the clear waters of a shallow pool.
Edward Lucie-Smith, curator/writer for ArtNews
These are images straight from the artist’s unconscious. They are more akin to visions than to the type of portraiture so loved by travel photographers.  Even when the flora seems familiarly tropical, its luminescent quality lifts it out of the realm of botanical taxonomy. Hyder is out to enchant, and to re-enchant our relationship with a natural world from which we have long been divorced by denial. His goals are more shamanic than eco-touristic, as his portrait series titled Shaman would indicate. He wants to dig deep into viewers’ distracted attention spans and shake things up until we begin to see — and see differently.
Jerry Cullum, writer for Art in America. Published in Atlanta Journal Constitution