//Artist Bio

(b. 1971) lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

He is a prolific painter and sculptor who has held numerous solo shows and participated in group exhibitions, residencies and workshops across the globe. His love of an interdisciplinary approach and cross-cultural collaboration add extra pep to his distinct visual language, a vocabulary of immediately and globally recognisable imagery.

“ O’Flynn knows Pop to be an irresistible lure, he also knows it to be the defining symptom of human error. By trafficking inside of it, he exposes its folly and opens up its strengths. ‘The initial image grabs you and pulls you in.’ Once inside, however, we are snagged in ‘unfuckery,’ words, signs, symbols that expose Pop’s corrosive lure. “  - Ashraf Jamal, arts writer and author

// Education

• 1988-1992 BA Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

// Special Honours And Awards

• 2017,-18,-19 Pietra Santa Sculpture Residency, Italy

• 2016 IICD Residency, Nigeria

• 2009 Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Beirut

• 2007 ABSA L’Atelier finalist

• 2006 Pro Helvetia Swiss Residency Fellowship

• 2005 ABSA L’Atelier finalist

• 2004 Brett Kebble Art Awards finalist

• 2004 ABSA L’Atelier finalist

// Solo Exhibitions

• 2020    LOVESICK, WORLDART, Cape Town

• 2019 Cool and Composed. WORLDART, Cape Town

• 2018 Timekeeper. Art Supermarket Asia, Hong Kong

• 2018 GNOMON. WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2017 Better & Better. WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2016 The good, the bad and the BOOM! WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2015 BANG BANG BOOM. Diedericks Faber. Johannesburg / Cape Town, South Africa

• 2012 Guardians. WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2010 Deep Down we all want to rob a Bank. Erdmann Contemporary. Cape Town, South Africa.

• 2009 The World Needs Me. Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2007 Never Too Late To Be A Man, Bell Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2005 The Bull and Other Stories, Bell Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2005 Currency, AVA, Association for Visual Art, Cape Town, South Africa

• 2004 Behind The Tent, Thapong, Gabarone, Botswana