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Kory Fluckiger lives in Ogden, Utah with his wife Heather McKinnon. A watercolor painter by trade, he seeks to unite the visual and literary arts in his work. With no formal watercolor training, Kory has been painting professionally since 2001, during which time he has had solo exhibitions at the Eccles Community Art Center’s Carriage House Gallery (Spring 2004) and at Olive and Dahlia on historic 25th Street (Summer 2005). He has also shown his work in the Springville Art Museum, participated in a Utah Arts Counsel traveling exhibition, created floral designs for Art in Bloom at the University of Utah’s Utah Museum of Fine Arts, juried art competitions, donated original work for various auctions and charities including volunteering to paint murals in an orphanage in Chiapas, Mexico. He has been listed as a collected Utah artist in Salt Lake magazine as well as being featured in the magazine Utah Style and Design (Fall 2002) for mural work. His painting entitled “Hydrangea Blue” has been selected for a museum tour from 2008 to 2010 by the International Guild of Realism. He is the winner of the 2007 cover competition for American Artist’s Watercolor magazine and has recently been awarded the Florence Kahn Memorial Award for his poetry chapbook
On the Way to Fish for Shiner by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
Kory’s work is displayed at Olive and Dahlia, 215 historic 25th Street in Ogden, Utah; Fine Arts Gallery, also on 25th Street in Ogden, as well as on his website, www.koryfluckiger.com. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism, an associate member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society, author of the book Watercolor for the First Time (2005) as well as being an accredited member of the American Institute of Floral Designers.