Frank Hyder is an American artist known for his large-scale works that explore color, light, and cultural symbolism. With a career spanning several decades, Hyder’s art practice spans painting, sculpture, woodcuts, and installation, characterized by expressive forms and vibrant colors. Hyder earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Hyder studied painting under notable artists including Elaine de Kooning, Fairfield Porter, Alice Neel, and Alex Katz.
He has exhibited extensively, with over 200 group shows and 100 solo exhibitions globally, including notable solo museum exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Museo Jacobo Borges, Museum of Modern Art Zulia, Museo Universidad de Los Andes and Museum of Modern Art Coro, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, The Carnegie Museum, La Salle Museum of Art, The National Museum of Catholic Art and History, and The Noyes Museum. His public commissions include murals for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program and ceramic installations in Oxnard, California, and Caracas, Venezuela. His work is held in collections such as the Library of Congress and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum, La Salle Museum, James Michener Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Museum Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Museum of Contemporary Art Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Hyder has received numerous awards and grants and has taught at Moore College of Art and Design and the University of Pennsylvania. His works have been reviewed in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, ArtNews, and Art in America.