Artist Bio
Dylan Mortimer

Dylan Mortimer graduated with a BFA Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.  He has created public art installations in several cities including New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City and Denver.  His exhibition history includes Columbia University, The Longwood Arts Gallery in the Bronx, the Dumbo Arts Center, PS 122 Gallery in New York, the Kansas City Jewish Museum, the Nerman Museum in Overland Park, KS, and the Haw Contemporary in Kansas City.  He has been featured in the New York Times, The New York Post, The Chicago Sun, The Baltimore Sun, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Kansas City Star, The Daily Mail, Sculpture Magazine, Public Art Review, and several other publications internationally.
 

Dylan was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at three months old in 1979, received new lungs on 1/18/17 and 4/13/19.  He and his wife Shannon have been married for sixteen years and have two boys who are 14 and 12