Rick Finn
printmaker
Rick Finn
Born 1957, Toledo, Ohio
Education: The Cleveland Institute of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, School of Design
Lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio
Contact me: rickfinnprints@gmail.com
Selected Exhibitions:
2026 Light Dreams, Light Art Space Gallery, Silver City NM
Nude, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
SAGA 91st Annual Members Exhibition, Mana Contemporary, NJ
2025 4th. Annual Mini Gems Exhibition, SAGA Gallery NYC
Lost Arts, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio
SAGA 90th Annual Members Exhibition, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport CT
Midwest Art Exhibition, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg KS
Recent Acquisitions, UC Meyers Gallery, Cincinnati OH
2024 Imprint, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
3rd. Annual Mini Gems Exhibition, (Third Place Award) SAGA Gallery NYC
Solace in Nature (First Place Award), Light Art Space Gallery, Silver City NM
Think Square 7, The Think Shop, Newport, KY
SAGA 89th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Center on Governors Island, NYC
2023 Imprint, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio
Artist Proof, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio
Think Square 6, The Think Shop, Newport, KY
2022 Paper, Ink, Press, Annex Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Think Square 5, The Think Shop, Newport, KY
2021 Pressing On, Caza Sikes Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Think Square 4, Cincinnati Learning Colab, Cincinnati Ohio
2020 Think Square 3, Cincinnati Learning Colab, Cincinnati, Ohio
Think Square Holiday, Cincinnati Learning Colab, Cincinnati, Ohio
2019 Think Square 2, The Think Shop, Covington,KY
TLP:40 Years and Printing, Kennedy Heights Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2018 Imprint, Manifest Gallery , Cincinnati, Ohio
TLP WAP Exhibition, Brazee Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2017 Recent Acquisitions, Cincinnati Art Museum
2016 Tiger Lily Prints!, Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Conversations, Northern Kentucky University Gallery
2015 Verge: Printing from the Periphery, Venue 222 Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2014 Tiger Lily Press Printmakers, Flats Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Imprint: Contemporary Printmaking, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2013 Fresh Ink: Recent Work from TLP, 5th. Street Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Human Face: A Revelation, Artisan Enterprise Center, Covington, KY
New Impressions, Clifton Cultural Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Prints for Peace and Justice, Art Academy of Cincinnati Gallery
34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition
New Prints 2012, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin
2012 New Prints/Autumn, International Print Center of New York, NYC
Texture of Being, Cullom Gallery, Seattle ,WA
Peripheral Vision, Urban Arts Space, Columbus ,Ohio
2011 New Prints/Autumn, International Print Center of New Your, NYC
New Prints/Autumn, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin
Dialogue and Dialect, 1st. International Mokuhanga Conference, Kyoto, Japan
Art from the Press, Artisan Enterprise Center, Covington, KY
SOS Art 2011, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio
2010 New Prints Summer/Heat!, International Print Center of New York, NYC
4 Ohio Co-ops, Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio
Tiger Lily Press Invitational, Community Action Gallery, Covington, KY
2009 91st Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art (purchase award)
Lasting Impressions, Gallery Salveo, Cincinnati, Ohio
New Prints/Winter 2009, International Print Center of New York, NYC
New Prints/Winter 2009, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2008 New Prints/ Autumn 2008, International Print Center of New York, NYC
Contemporary Printmaking, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2007 Revisition Tiger Lily Press, YMCA Woman's Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Printed by Hand, University Gallery on Sycamore, Cincinnati, Ohio
88th Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art
It's in Your Head: Approaches to Likeness, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005 National Drawing Annual, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
For a Better World, Poems & Drawings for Peace & Justice, Cincinnati, Ohio
1983 65th Annual Toledo Area Artist Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art
1982 Printmakers, Toledo Edison Exhibit Center, Toledo, Ohio
The Printmaking Workshop, Herter Gallery, UMASS, Amherst MA
1981 63rd Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art (two 3rd place awards)
1980 62nd Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art
1979 New Prints: Six Toledo Area Printmakers, Toledo Edison Exhibit Center, Toledo, Ohio
Permanent Collections:
Cincinnati Art Museum
University of Cincinnati
Toledo Federation of Art Societies
David Owsley Museum of Art - Ball State University
Publications:
2015 AEQAI, June Issue
2013 AEQAI, July/August Issue
2011 SOS Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
2008 Contemporary Printmaking, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2006 It's In Your Head: Approaches to Likeness, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005 National Drawing Annual, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2005 For a Better World: Poems & Drawings for Peace & Justice, Cincinnati, Ohio
Affiliations:
2024 Member, Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)
2023 Member, Boston Printmakers
1994-95 & 2005-2023 Member of Tiger Lily Press
2013 Board Member of Tiger Lily Press
2005-2010 Co-Director of Tiger Lily Press
Sept. 2015 - Sept. 2016 Tiger Lily Press Artist Residency