Inver Hills art instructor show • Now through Friday, September 19, 2025
The Rob Kolomyski Solo Exhibition is showing now through Friday, September 19, 2025, at Gallery 120. Art shows and exhibitions are hosted at the Gallery 120 brick-and-mortar location in the atrium of the Fine Arts building on the Inver Hills campus in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Artist Bio
Rob James Kolomyski was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1970. Rob worked as an automotive engineer at Toyota for 10 years before changing careers to become an art educator. He received a B.F.A. from Eastern Michigan University in 2002 and an M.F.A. from Michigan State University in 2007. He has taught as a visiting professor of drawing and painting at Michigan State University and now works as a professor at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Most recently, Rob’s work has been selected for inclusion in the 2024 Manifest Gallery Retrospective publication from Manifest Press. He has exhibited drawings at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and in 2023 his work was accepted into the 6th Biennial International Survey of Contemporary Painting at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. His work was featured at the Open Door 15 Juried Exhibition at the Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, at the National Juried Exhibition at the First Street Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and ‘The Retrieval of the Beautiful’ Exhibition at The Painting Center, also in Chelsea.
Rob’s work was selected to exhibit at the ‘Fresh Paint’ Juried Biannual at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati. His most recent solo show was Liminal at the Manifest Gallery. Over the last decade, Rob has exhibited at the following locations:
Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, Brownsville, Texas
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung City, Taiwan
Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
The Foundry Art Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Max Fish Gallery, New York City, New York
Learn more about Rob by reading his faculty spotlight on Inver Hills News:
For this exhibition, I am interested in how personal mythology and art historical references can become a central organizing force. These associations are baked into my creative process through a constant working and reworking of the formal and compositional elements as I continually react and respond to the process of painting itself.
I hope to evoke the ambiguities, complications, and tensions of contemporary life through tangled compositions that convey psychological states and complex emotions. Dream jungles and meaty atmospheres that ride the boundary between the familiar and the surprising.
Most recently, Rob’s work has been selected for inclusion in the 2024 Manifest Gallery Retrospective publication from Manifest Press. He has exhibited drawings at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and in 2023 his work was accepted into the 6th Biennial International Survey of Contemporary Painting at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. His work was featured at the Open Door 15 Juried Exhibition at the Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, at the National Juried Exhibition at the First Street Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and ‘The Retrieval of the Beautiful’ Exhibition at The Painting Center, also in Chelsea.
