John Bunker Bio
Bunker has exhibited his paintings widely, including one-person exhibitions at the Jacksonville Art Museum, the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, the Museum of Science and History-Jacksonville, Thrasher Horne Center For the Arts in Orange Park, Florida, the Haskell Gallery at the Jacksonville International Airport, Georgia Southern College, The University of North Florida, Winwrights, Stellers Gallery of Ponte Vedra Beach, Gallery Contemporanea, Fairfax Gallery, Phillips Gallery of Jacksonville University and the Ormond Museum of Art and Gardens among others. He has participated in numerous group and theme exhibitions throughout the United States.
His works are included in diverse public and private and corporate collections both in this country and abroad. Selected collections include AT&T Universal Card, The Mayo Clinic, Dependable Insurance, Nordstroms Department Stores, NCNB Tampa, Hope Haven Clinic, Kenneth Smith Architects, Wachovia Banks, Bank of America, Barnett Banks of Florida, Sawgrass Country Club, the Vestcor Companies, Telecheck, Amelia Island Plantation, Mutual Federal Savings and Loan, Vistakon, Dean Witter, First Coast Oncology Centers, Sterlings Restaurant, Doctor’s Hospital, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, IDAC, McGarvey Residential Companies, Old San Jose on the River, The Orlando Jetport, Baptist South Hospitals, Timuquana Country Club Stein Mart and The Sea Colony of St. Augustine Beach.
Other paintings are included in the permanent Collections of the City of Jacksonville, City of Murmansk, Russia, The Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, North Florida College, Georgia Southern College, Riverside House, and The Florida Senate. The University of North Florida, as well as others.
Bunker sustained an extensive career with Art Museums culminating in his past directorships of the Jacksonville Art Museum and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. He was a fellow at the Smithsonian Museum’s Museum Management Institute and the Getty’s Museum Management Institute at UC Berkeley. An active volunteer for the arts in Florida over three decades, he has served as president of the Riverside Concert Board, CityArt of Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport arts commission, Board member of the Patrons of the Hearts, and the Jacksonville Public Arts Committee. He is currently on the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. In 2007 Bunker was awarded the prestigious Individual Arts Award for his 30 years of service by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
A native Floridian, Bunker has traveled extensively in North America, Europe, South America and Africa in pursuit of his art.
Fascinated by flora and fauna in the natural environment, Bunker’s works reflect this interest in creating various dynamic, inventive, and unique paintings. He currently devotes all of his time to making art in his Jacksonville, Florida, studio.
As one reviewer/critic stated:
His works are included in diverse public and private and corporate collections both in this country and abroad. Selected collections include AT&T Universal Card, The Mayo Clinic, Dependable Insurance, Nordstroms Department Stores, NCNB Tampa, Hope Haven Clinic, Kenneth Smith Architects, Wachovia Banks, Bank of America, Barnett Banks of Florida, Sawgrass Country Club, the Vestcor Companies, Telecheck, Amelia Island Plantation, Mutual Federal Savings and Loan, Vistakon, Dean Witter, First Coast Oncology Centers, Sterlings Restaurant, Doctor’s Hospital, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, IDAC, McGarvey Residential Companies, Old San Jose on the River, The Orlando Jetport, Baptist South Hospitals, Timuquana Country Club Stein Mart and The Sea Colony of St. Augustine Beach.
Other paintings are included in the permanent Collections of the City of Jacksonville, City of Murmansk, Russia, The Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, North Florida College, Georgia Southern College, Riverside House, and The Florida Senate. The University of North Florida, as well as others.
Bunker sustained an extensive career with Art Museums culminating in his past directorships of the Jacksonville Art Museum and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. He was a fellow at the Smithsonian Museum’s Museum Management Institute and the Getty’s Museum Management Institute at UC Berkeley. An active volunteer for the arts in Florida over three decades, he has served as president of the Riverside Concert Board, CityArt of Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport arts commission, Board member of the Patrons of the Hearts, and the Jacksonville Public Arts Committee. He is currently on the vestry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. In 2007 Bunker was awarded the prestigious Individual Arts Award for his 30 years of service by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
A native Floridian, Bunker has traveled extensively in North America, Europe, South America and Africa in pursuit of his art.
Fascinated by flora and fauna in the natural environment, Bunker’s works reflect this interest in creating various dynamic, inventive, and unique paintings. He currently devotes all of his time to making art in his Jacksonville, Florida, studio.
As one reviewer/critic stated:
John Bunker’s work seduces and beckons our attention. The subject of his paintings are …simmering with energy, saturated with color and wonderfully alive. Flowers dance and soar through the vibrant paintings in rich, deep colors accented by metallic swirls and curlicues.
As a native of Florida, Bunker uses the forms and patterns found in the natural environment as inspiration for his work. The diversity of flowering forms and objects in the Florida landscape never ceases to inspire him.
