Linda Lynch
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Born 1958, El Paso, Texas
Lives and works in Southern New Mexico and New York City

Education   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA

Selected Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
University of California at Los Angeles Hammer Museum, CA
Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Prudential, Newark, NJ

Exhibitions

2011   Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY "Drawn/Taped/Burned:Abstraction on Paper"

2009   Moody Gallery, Houston, TX "Two Views from an Arid Place"
          Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain, "New York/New
             Drawings 1946-2007" works from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky collection
          Studio of Suzi Davidoff, El Paso, TX "Art Four One Day"

2008   The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY, "marlene dietrich in dr. no's ludovico-clinic"
             the 15th Annual Watermill summer benefit, Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation
          El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX and Museo de Arte, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
             "Binational 2008" curated by Ruth Fine and Luis-Martin Luzano

2007   El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX "Sister Cities Testing Boundaries: Art and
             Artists Along the U.S./Mexico Border"

2006   Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, "In Series: Recent Accessions in Prints and
             Drawings at the MFAH"

2005   Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA, "Marked Proximity"
          Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, "5 x 7"

2004   Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, "Infinite Possibilities:
             Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings"
          El Museo de las Culturas del Norte, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, "Simbolos y Sitios"
          Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, "Common Ground:
             Vessels by Bonnie Lynch and Works on Paper by Linda Lynch" Curated by Billy Hassell

2003   Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, "Fine Lines"
          University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, "In the Making:
             Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection"
          Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, "Up Close and Personal"

2002   The Drawing Center, New York, NY, "25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition"
          560 Broadway, Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY "Ad Infinitum"
          Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX "Recent Acquisition"
          Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa "Recent Drawings from Africa"

2000   Pollock Gallery/Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist
             University, Dallas, TX" Contemporary American Drawings from the Sally and
             Werner H. Kramarsky Collection"

1999   560 Broadway, Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY "Linda Lynch, Drawings
             Bonnie Lynch, Vessels"
          The Arts Alliance of Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX "Six Artists"
          El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX "Refocus II"

1998   Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX, "1998 Critics Choice" curated by Elizabeth Ferrer,
             Director, Austin Museum of Art and Stephen Vollmer, Curator, El Paso Museum of Art

1997   El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, "Landscapes: New World/Old World,
             Changing Perspectives of the Western Eye"

1994   Hunter College, New York, NY, "Invitational" curated by the Department of Fine Art
             Faculty of Hunter College; Invitation of William C. Agee, Department of Art History
          University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, Glass Gallery, "Faculty Exhibition"

1993   El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, Focus Gallery, "Road Furrow Hill Ridge Sky"
             solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings

1992   Brent Gallery, Houston, TX, "Texas Roundup"

1991   Sul Ross Universtiy Art Gallery, Alpine, TX "Linda Lynch: Works on Paper" solo exhibition
          Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA, "Contemporary Visions of the Virgin of Guadalupe"
          Consulate General of the United States and the Instituto Nacional de Belles Artes
             "IX Annual Exhibition" Museo de Arte del INBA, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico;
             travelled to Museo Regional, Ciudad Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
          Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX, "The Landscape: Linda Lynch and Susan Davidoff"
          Elita T. Agee Fine Arts, Bronxville, NY
          Juntos Art Association, El Paso, TX, "Ten Artists"
          El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, "Women's Work"
          The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX, "Heartworks" invitational

1990   Museo Regional, Ciudad Chihuhua, Chihuahua, Mexico, "Linda Lynch: Obra Nueva"
             solo exhibition
          The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, "1990 Exhibition of Works on Paper"
             curated by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
          The Century Association, New York, NY, "Collector's Exhibition: New Acquisitions"
          Elita T. Agee Fine Arts, Bronxville, NY
          Epoche Gallery, New York, NY, "Short Stories: An Exploration into the Narrative"
          Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, NY, Longwood Arts Project at P.S.39,
             "Invitational/Defining Works on Paper"
          The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX, "Heartworks III"

1989   Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX, "The Landscape in Black and White"

1989   Consulate General of the United States and the Instituto Nacional de Belles Artes
             "Mountains and Deserts"
          Museo de Arte del INBA, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico; travelled to Museo Regional,
             Ciudad Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
          Elita T. Agee Fine Arts, Bronxville, NY

1988   Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, "The New Generation" curated by
             Werner H. Kramarsky

1987   Elita T. Agee Fine Arts, Bronxville, NY

1986   The Drawing Center, New York, NY "Selections 33" 101 Spring Street, New York, NY,
          "Benefit for the War Resisters League" curated by Donald Judd
          Elita T. Agee Fine Arts, Bronxville, NY

1981   Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institue, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography

2011   "Heller Levinson and Linda Lynch – lines erupting" The Jivin' Ladybug,
             www.jivinladybug.wordpress.com, USA
          "Issue No. 2" Caliban, www.calibanonline.com, USA
          "Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, www.aboutdrawing.org/drawn/taped/burned/, USA

2010   "Heller Levinson and Linda Lynch Lines" Alligatorzine, www.alligatorzine.be, Brussels, Belgium

2009   "New York/New Drawings, 1947-2008" Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente,
             Segovia, Spain, text and illustration

2008   "Art Binational/Binacional de Arte 2008" El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de
             Ciudad Juarez/INBA, El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, exhibition catalogue,
             illustrations

2007   "560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006" Edited by Amy Eshoo,
             5th Floor Foundation, New York, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven
             and London
          "Sister Cities Testing Boundaries: Art and Artists Along the U.S.-Mexico Border" El Paso
             Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, illustration

2005   "Marked Proximity" exhibition review by Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
             September 11

2004   "Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings" exhibition review by
             Susan Boulanger, Art on Paper, November/December
          "Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings"
          Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA, exhibition catalogue, illustration
          "Art Guide" The Dallas Morning News, May 14, photograph

2003   "Gallery show features bold expression" by Gloria Russell Sunday Republican, Amherst, MA,
             April 27, photograph
          "In the Making: Drawings from a Private Collection" University Gallery, Fine Arts Center,
             University of Massachusetts, Amherst, exhibition brochure

2002   "Ad Infinitum" by Aruna D'Souza and Tom McDonough, New York, NY, exhibition brochure,
             illustrations

2000   "Collector drawn to emerging artists" by Janet Kutner, The Dallas Morning News, Sunday,
             February 27, photograph
          "On Drawing: A Conversation with Werner H. Kramarsky, Connie Butler, and Harry Cooper"
             Pollock Gallery/Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University,
             Dallas, TX, catalogue, illustration

1999   "Linda Lynch" exhibition catalogue
          "Refocus II" El Paso Museum of Art, illustration

1998   "Critics Choice" Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX, catalogue, two illustrations
          "The Mission Remains the Same But the Show's Works Hint at Change in Direction"
             by Mike Daniel, The Dallas Morning News, May 8, photograph

1995   "Women Artists" Cedco Publishing Company, San Rafael, CA, calendar datebook, color illustration

1994   "Women Artists" Cedco Publishing Company, San Rafael, CA, calendar datebook, color illustration

1993   "Women Artists" Cedco Publishing Company, San Rafael, CA, calendar datebook, color illustration

1992   "Linda Lynch: Cuando la Radiactividad Interfiere en el Trabajo del Artista" by Willivaldo Delgadillo,
             Semanario May 4,
          Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, photograph "Roundup at the Brent Gallery" Museum & Arts, Houston,
             TX, April
          "Museum of Art Plans Events for February" El Paso Herald Post, February 6
          "Noted Collector is Giving Museum of Art Work by Artist Linda Lynch" by Myrna Zanatell,
             Westside Today, El Paso, TX, June 20
          "El Paso Artist Shows Work at SR Gallery" The Alpine Avalanche, Alpine, TX, February 7

1991   "Abstract Work in Three Materials, Pushed to the Limit" by William Zimmer,
             The New York Times, April 28, photograph

1990   "The Unknown Artist's Best Friend: Wynn Kramarsky Finds and Nurtures New Talent" by
             Helen Dudar, Connoisseur Magazine, September, photograph
          "A Show of Three Contemporaries in an Old English Setting" by Vivien Raynor, The New York Times,
             Sunday, May 6, photograph
          "Expondra Linda Lynch su Obra a los Chihuahuenses" Vanguardia, Ciudad Chihuahua,
             Mexico, September 2, photographs

1988   "New Generation Shows its Colors" by Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, Sunday, May 22,
             photograph