Lynne Golob Gelfman (1944-2020) was born in Waukegan, IL and grew up in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, (BA, 1966) and the School of the Arts, Columbia University, (MFA, 1968). She taught art at the Dalton School from 1968 until 1972, the year that she and her husband started a flower farm outside Bogotá, and moved to Miami, an import gateway for the flowers. For Gelfman, who had loved Bogotá as an American Field Service student in 1961, the culture and landscape of Colombia as well as the diverse, subtropical world of Miami, are important influences, along with her strong ties to New York. In Miami, she taught at various colleges and universities, including Florida International University (FIU), University of Miami (UM), and Miami Dade Community College North (MDCC). She was a dedicated arts educator at the Barnyard Children’s Art Collective in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami for fifteen years and was passionate about providing access to the arts to children from diverse backgrounds and communities.

Solo Exhibitions

2023

• Lynne Golob Gelfman, Shaham Family Gallery, Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Florida.

2018

• Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida

2017

• sometimes random, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, New York

2016

• sometimes random, Giovani Beltran, Design Miami, Miami, Florida

2014

• trued surface, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Florida

2012

• sand, Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami, Florida

• scapes, The Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

2010

• between, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, Florida

2009

• water/clouds/sand, Gallery X, Miami, Florida

2006

• resist/react, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York,

• New York react: new work, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

2003

• across: new paintings, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

• 18 paintings and a loop, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, New York

• Wall Paper, designlab, Miami, Florida

• bars, new work, curated by Mark Hampton, design associates MIAMI storefront, Miami, Florida

2001

• New Work, Fredric Snitzer, Miami, Florida

• topography, 6g, Miami, Florida

1999

• Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

1997

• 17 New Paintings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, New York

1996

• Muddy Boots, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

1995

• Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, New York

• Galería Alfred Wild, Bogotá, Colombia

• Oil and Sand, The Foundlings Club, Miami Beach, Florida

• National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C1993

• Settings, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

• Art Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

1992

• Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

1991

• Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1990

• Paintings on Paper, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

• 1988 Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

1986

• Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

• R.C. Erpf Fine Art, New York, New York

• Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida

1985

• R.C. Erpf Fine Art, New York, New York

1984

• Paintings 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida

1983

• Miami-Dade Community College South Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida

• Garcés-Velasquez Galería, Bogotá, Colombia

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

• Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida

1980

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1978

• New World Center Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1977

• Gallery Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium

• Gallery Foncke, Ghent, Belgium

1976

• Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida

1975

• Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida

1997

• Florida Invitational, Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, Florida

• Gramercy International Art Fair, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California

• Expoarte, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico

• Made in Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

• Highlights from the Permanent Collection, First Anniversary, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

• Exhibition, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida

• Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Kenny Schachter Gallery, Raleigh Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

1996

• Sub Rosa, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, New York

1995

• Tuning Up, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida

• Becalmed in Miami: Art Boats by Florida Artists, Metro-Dade Main Library, Miami, Florida

• 1994 Basnuevo, Brown, Castañeda, Henriquez, Gelfman, Neijna, Winters, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables,

• Imago, Palm Desert, California

• Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida

1993

• 5 Abstractos: Carlos Rojas, Fernando de Szyszlo, Ramiro Llona, Manuel Hernandez, Lynne Gelfman,

• Galería Alfred Wild, Bogotá, Colombia

• Chicago Art Fair, Ron Hall Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

• Self-portraits by South Florida Artists, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida

1992

• Among Friends, Contemporary works on paper from a collection formed by Ingeborg and Jan van der

• Marck, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1992; Lee Hall Gallery, North Michigan

• University, Marquette, 1992; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1992; The

• Michael and Barbara Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, 1992;

• Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, 1992; Muskegon Museum of Art, 1991

• Dealers' Choice, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida

• Faculty 1992 Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

1991

• South Florida Invitational, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• Collectors' Choice, The Art Center, Vero Beach, Florida

1990

• Fifty Years of Collecting, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

• The Start of Something Big, Eastbourne Clark Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

• Abstraction, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

• Thriving in Change, Fifty Years of Collecting, Metro-Dade Main Library, Miami, Florida

1989

• A Celebration of Color, Art Mobile, Metro-Dade Main Library, Miami, Florida

• Selections from the Art Bank at Metro-Dade Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami,

• Florida Gelfman, Lorca, Renouf, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

• Decade of Collecting, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

• 1988 Southern Abstraction, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1988; City Gallery of

• Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1987

1987

• Created in Florida, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

• Made in Florida, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1986

• Art in Corporate Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

• Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida

1985

• Neomodern, R.C. Erpf Fine Art, New York, New York

• Recent Paintings, R.C. Erpf Fine Art, New York, New York

• Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida

1984

• Four Florida Artists, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

• Greene Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida

• Recent Paintings, R.C. Erpf Fine Art, New York, New York

1983

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1982

• Seven in Miami, Metropolitan Museum of Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida

• Five in Florida, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1981

• Frank Kolbert Gallery, New York, New York

• New Acquisitions, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1980

• Across the Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972-1979, National Museum of American Art,

• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

• Hodgell-Hartman Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

• Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

1979

• Patterned Space, Art Sources, Jacksonville, Florida

1978

• The Eye of 25, Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida

• 1977 FIAC, Alexandra Monett Gallery, Paris, France

• Galerie Bouma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Arts Festival '77, Jacksonville, Florida

• Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida

1976

• Professional Women Artists of Florida, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

• Florida Painters 1976, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

1975

• Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida

1974

• Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida

1973

• Medici-Berenson Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

• Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida

1968

• Four Women Artists, Columbia University, New York, New York

IBM, Atlanta, Georgia

IBM, Charlotte, North Carolina

Kirk Foundation, Miami, Florida

Knight Foundation, Miami, Florida

Lankler, Siffert and Wohl, New York, New York

Mellon Bank, Miami, Florida

Metro-Dade Main Library, Miami, Florida

Metro-Dade Library, Sunny Isles Branch, Sunny Isles, Florida

Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Miami Dade Community College South Campus, Miami, Florida

Monaco, Miami Beach, Florida

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

Suzanne Martinson, Architect, Miami, Florida

Seaside, Seaside, Florida

Sheraton Hotel, DCOTA, Dania, Florida

Sonesta Hotel, Coconut Grove, Florida

Sonesta Hotel, Key Biscayne, Florida

Sonesta Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, Miami, Florida

Sun Bank, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Swiss Bank, Miami, Florida

The Abig Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida

Trump/Sonesta Hotel, Sunny Isles, Florida

United National Bank, Miami, Florida

Alana Shilling, “Simulacrum and Simulacrum: Miami Between Itself”, The Miami Rail, Spring 2014

Anne Tschida, “The Dawning of A Museum”, Miami Herald, December 1, 2013

Tali Jaffe & Omar Sommereyns, “Cultured 25”, Cultured, winter 2013, Miami, Fl

Judith Rodenbeck & Lisa Wohl, trued surface, The Grenfell Press, NY 2013

Judith Rodenbeck, “In Lynne’s Library,” 2011

Terry Riley, “Finally! Journalism That Ignores What’s Hot/What’s Not,” Biscayne Times, June, 2011

Claire Breukel, “Dirty Pink: 305 Project,” video, 2011

Janet Batet, “Fiesta del Arte en Miami,” Miami Herald, August 8, 2010

Anne Tschida, “Under and Over the Surface: Between,” Carol Jazzar Gallery, 2010

Anne Tschida, “Beneath the Waves water/clouds/sand,” Gallery X, 2009

www.wetheatproject.com.2008

Ami Kealoha, Art Basel Miami Beach Studio Visits,

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/12/art_basel_miami_3.php

Lisa Wohl, “Lines,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2007

Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, Miami Contemporary Artists, Schiffer Books, Atglen, PA, 2007

Suzanne Sleisin, “The Collector,” O at Home, Fall 2007

Anne Tschida, “React,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 2006

Grazia D’Annuzio, “Spazio Senza Confini,” Architectural Digest, Italian Edition, Agosto, 2006

Robert Apfel, Art and Culture in Miami Before 1980, The Bakehouse, 2006

Hans Fonk, “Art in Coral Gables- Lynne Golob Gelfman,” OBJEKT©international, 35, The Netherlands, autumn, 2006

PS1 Archive Interview:

http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/correspond_miami.html click on: Edition #21: Lynne Golob Gelfman,

first broadcast February 27, 2006

“Lynne Gelfman: Resist and React,” http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/04/04/33813.html

Onajide Shabaka, “react: lynne gelfman,” featured at miamiartexchange.com, January 23, 2006

Alfredo Triff, Miami Art Explosion, Thomson Custom Solutions, 2006

Puppies Against Cancer, Luminaire Lab, Miami, Fl, 2006

Bonnie Clearwater, Moca & Miami, Moca, 2005

Grazia D’Annuzio, “ Miragio Urbano” Architectural Digest, Italian Edition, Maggio, 2005

Beth Dunlop, “ A Florida Penthouse by René Gonzalez,” Florida InsideOut, 2005

Miralda, Imaginary Dishes, Food Cultura Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2005

Ami Kealoha, “Lynne Gelfman” featured at:

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/06/lynnegolobgel.php#more

Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Transitory Patterns: Florida Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the

Arts, 2004

Alfredo Triff, “Artquake,” Miami New Times, December 2, 2004

Elisa Turner, “Unravel (Desenredar),” The Miami Herald, February 10, 2004

Alfredo Triff, “Art,” Miami New Times, February 4, 2004

Eugenio Espinoza, “Across:New Paintings, Última Muestra de Lynne Golob Gelfman,” Imagen

Latinoamericana, 19 de diciembre del 2003

Alfredo Triff, “Art,” Miami New Times, December 3, 2003

Miguel A. Sirgado, “Medici y Golob Gelfman,” El Nuevo Herald, 16 de noviembre del 2003

Elisa Turner, “Snack on a pop art feast,” The Miami Herald, September 2, 2003

Franklin Einsprach, “abstract miami,” Dorsch Gallery, April, 2003

Elisa Turner, “Abstract show has stories to tell,” The Miami Herald, April 27, 2003

Circular, Winter/Spring Inspiration, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003

Armando Alvarez Bravo, “Mam para celebrar una colección y una comunidad,” el Nuevo Herald,

November 10, 2002

Elisa Turner, “’Miami Currents’ Puts the Miami Art Museum Best Foot-and Art-Forward,” The Miami Herald,

March 21, 2002

“Los diseñadores y El Arte,”Casa + Estilo Internacional, June/July, 2002

Elisa Turner, “Gelfman’s ‘Bars’ Opens Series Linking Art, Design, Architecture,” The Miami Herald, March 21, 2002

W.H.Bailey, Defining Edges, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2002

David Burnett, “18 Paintings and a Loop,” Suite 106 Gallery, 2002

Elisa Turner, “Global Perspective,” The Miami Herald, December, 2001

Caren Rabbino, “Looking Through a New Lens,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, October, 2001

Lisa Wohl, “Topography,” 6g, 2001

Elisa Turner, “Minimal Affect, Moca Show,” The Miami Herald, October 8, 2000

Lauren Weiner, “Miami,” Abitare, May, 2000

Luis R. Rigual, “Women of Miami, Suzanne Delehanty on Women in the Arts,” Miami Metro Magazine, May, 2000

Paula Harper, “Banking on Art,” Art in America, May, 2000

Roni Feinstein, “Report from Miami: Part II – Miami Heats Up,” Art in America, November, 1999

Elisa Turner, “Abstract Painters,” The Miami Herald, October 25, 1999

Alfredo Triff, “The Art of Digging It,” Miami New Times, October 21, 1999

Petey Cox, “Unusual Installations,” Miami Today, October 14, 1999

Gean Moreno, “Lynne Golob Gelfman,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 1999

Roni Feinstein, “Report from Miami: Part I - Museum Salsa,” Art in America, May, 1999

Eric Wilson, “The Ardent Artist,” W, 1997

Amy Cappellazzo, 17 new paintings with details and text, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, catalog, 1997

Petey Cox, “Best of Miami's Artists,” Miami Today, May 29, 1997

Janet Ozzard, “Miami's Moderns,”W, February, 1997

Amy Cappellazzo, Muddy Boots, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, catalog, 1996

Elisa Turner, “Reach out and touch artist's creations, ”The Miami Herald, March 1, 1996

Lisa Wohl, “New Paintings: Oil and Sand,” Joyce Goldstein Gallery, essay, September, 1995

Helen L. Kohen, “The Collectors,” The Miami Herald, November 27, 1994

“Miami Collectors,” Esquire, Japan, October, 1994

Helen L. Kohen, “CFA show highlights collectors' holdings,” The Miami Herald, November 13, 1994

Helen L. Kohen, “Summer in the City,” The Miami Herald, August 26, 1994

Louis Grachos and Kate Rawlinson, Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Miami Art Museum, 1994

Helen L. Kohen, “A Legacy in Linen,” The Miami Herald, December 3, 1993

Helen L. Kohen, “Art Miami '93,” The Miami Herald, January 15, 1993

Helen L. Kohen, “Self-portraits reveal much,” The Miami Herald, May 15, 1993

Helen L. Kohen, “Tough Art for Tough Times,” The Miami Herald, November 20, 1992

Helen L. Kohen, “U.M. Faculty Show Worth a Visit to Lowe,” The Miami Herald, August 15, 1992

“An Artful Connection,” Florida Architect, July-August, 1992

Helen L. Kohen, “Florida Art,” The Miami Herald, May 22, 1992

Elisa Turner, “Modernist Mutes Her Palette,” The Miami Herald, March 27, 1991

Jan van der Marck, Among Friends, Contemporary works on paper, The Detroit Institute of Arts, catalog, 1991

Giulio V. Blanc, New Paintings, Greene Gallery, catalog, 1991

Giulio V. Blanc, “Bombs and Oranges,” Arts Magazine, November, 1990

Petey Cox, “Abstraction,” Kendall Gazette, February, 1990

Helen L. Kohen, “Lowe Shows Proof of 10 Good Years,” The Miami Herald, July 9, 1989

Helen L. Kohen, “Dade's Artworks Shine in North Miami Show,” The Miami Herald, May 19, 1989

Elisa Turner, “Artists Gird for New Approaches,” The Miami Herald, February 15, 1989

Leslie Ahlander, “Artist Still Fascinated with Leafy Forms,” The Miami News, February 26, 1988

Helen L. Kohen, “Broward Museum Struts its Stuff,” The Miami Herald, June 21, 1987

Peter Plagens, “Miami Slice,” Art in America, November, 1986

Leslie Ahlander, The Miami News, January 24, 1986

Cookie Mueller, Details, Summer, 1985

Florida Designer's Quarterly, January, 1984

Maggie Felser, “Gallery,” Tropic Magazine, February 26, 1984

Jan van der Marck, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Paintings 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, catalog, 1984

Paula Harper, “Charting Decade of Vibrant Art,” The Miami News, February 8, 1984

Helen L. Kohen, The Miami Herald, March 1, 1984

Eduardo Marceles Daconte, “Arte: La Nueva Imagen de Expresionismo,” Nueva Frontera, Bogotá, Colombia, June 13, 1984

Paula Harper, The Miami News, November 18, 1983

Leslie Ahlander , Lynne Gelfman, Miami Dade Community College South, catalog, 1983

El Espectador, Bogotá, Colombia, June 8, 1983

“Pintura Joven en Garcés-Velasquez,” Al Dia, Bogotá, Colombia, June 28, 1983

Helen L. Kohen, “Art Looks for a Place in the Sun,”Art News, February, 1983

Mary Neff, “The Art Crowd,” Marquee, Miami, December, 1982

Helen L. Kohen, “Seven in Miami,” The Miami Herald, November 21, 1982

Helen L. Kohen, “Five in Florida,” The Miami Herald, June 18, 1982

Helen L. Kohen, “Texture, Color Reign at Kane Concourse,” The Miami Herald, October 17, 1980

Don Thalacker, The Place of Art in the World of Architecture, R.K. Boker Press, New York, 1980

Patterned Space, Art Sources, Jacksonville, Florida, catalog,1979

Ellen Edwards, Art News, February, 1979

Ellen Edwards, “South Florida: No Longer a Last Resort for Art,” Art News, December, 1979

Ellen Edwards, ”Paintings Built on the Triangle, “The Miami Herald, October 20, 1978

Pourquoi Pas?, Brussels, Belgium, September 6, 1977

Pat Roberts, “Winning Police Art,“ The Miami Herald, November 8,1975

2011-12 Kampong Barnyard Exchange Classes, Coconut Grove, Florida

2002–11 Barnyard Children’s Art Collective, Coconut Grove, Florida

1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

1992 University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Miami Dade Community College North, Miami, Florida

1975–81 Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida

1974 Florida International University, Miami, Florida

1972 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

1968–72 The Dalton School, New York, New York

1968 92nd Street YMHA, New York, New York