Tobias Flores

Introduction by Noah Kirby

Toby was born in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1971. He studied printmaking, drawing, and sculpture in San Diego receiving a BA from San Diego State University in 2000. At SDSU he changed his major from printmaking to sculpture after learning to work with metal under master sculptor Gerald Dumlao. He studied sculpture and blacksmithing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale receiving an MFA in 2003. He currently lives and works in Hays, Kansas with his wife, Libby and their son, Oscar. Their oldest son, cooper, lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Toby has been teaching sculpture at Fort Hays State University for the past sixteen years. He has shown his work in over one hundred and sixty exhibitions throughout the United States, Germany, Wales and China.