Untitled
2009
acrylic marker on paper
87 x 92 1/2 inches

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Linn Meyers installation at the Hammer Museum

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LINN MEYERS

b. 1968 Washington, DC

Education

1993 MFA, Painting, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1990 BFA, Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
at the time being, Philips Collection, Washington, DC
2009
here today, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
Site specific, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2007
no time like the present, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2005
everything matters, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2004
Linn Meyers, project room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Ernden Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
2003
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (February 2003)
Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC (May 2003)
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (June 2003)
2002
line drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Frick Art Museum, Rotunda Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2002
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
2001
87,561 Strokes and other works by Linn Meyers, Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
1999
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1998
St. Peter's Church, New York, NY
1997
Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Zoon, New Haven, CT
Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
Koenig Art Center, New Haven, CT
1993
Gallery 5417, Oakland, CA
1992
East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
INK, inc., Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Off The Grid, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
Fine Lines, Reyes + Davis, Washington, DC
Prints by Gallery Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Very Very Large Drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
50 very small drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Curvilinear, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2008
International Print Exhibition, USA & Japan (traveling), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
Black, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
Making Time, Works by Miriam Cabessa and Linn Meyers, Lyons Wier + Ortt, New York, NY
The Space Between, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Touch, Busdori Project Space, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Currents: Recent Acquistions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Building a Legacy, Drawing, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
INK!, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Etch-A-Sketch, The Drawing Show, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchment, NY
Between the Lines, M.A.P, Baltmore, MD
New Prints/Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY
Walking the Line, Union Gallery, University of Marlyand, MD
2006
Re-Defined, The Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, DC
Street Scenes: Art and Elements, Projects for DC, Washington DC
Aligning with Abstract LA, DEM Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Full Circle, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2004
DC Now, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2003
drawn, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Round, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002
4 drawing artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Abstraction and Illusion, Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
2001
Gestures, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA
Photographs by Artists Made for a Variety of Purpose, Forland Street Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Aether, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Aether, Untitled (Space), New Haven, CT
Art Sante Fe, George Billis Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
Taking Stock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Modern/Modular, Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA
Lumenroom, Three Rivers gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
8 Drawings: Part III, Bowman & Penelec Gallery, Meadville, PA
2000 Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
15xxx, University Art Gallery, University of Ohio, Akron, OH
Art Making 2000, Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD
1999
Not a Theme Show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Shimmer, Signal 66, Washington, DC
Beyond the Façade, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1998
Postmark International, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
Linn Meyers, Betty Garrich, The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
1997
Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 2621, New York, NY
1996
144 Inches Square, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
Paintings and Works on Paper, The Houghton Gallery, New York, NY
1995
13th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
National Small Works Show, Schoharie County Arts Council, Bobble Skill, NY
Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Juried Show, Arts Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ
1994
Art-in-March, Frank Bustemante Gallery, New York, NY
1993
The Bus Shelter Gallery, 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA
1992
Annual Small Works Exhibition, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Inside/Outside, The One Hour Gallery, Oakland, CA
1991
Contemporary Landscapes, Robert Pearce Gallery, Greensboro, NC

Awards and Fellowships

2009
Artist in Residence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (Printmaking)
2008
Artist in Residence, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
DC Commission for the Arts, “Artists’ Fellowship Grant”
2007
Artist in Residence, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Fifth Floor Foundation Grant
2006
The Tamarind Institute, Abq, NM, Artist in Residence, 2006
2005
DC Commission for the Arts, "Small Projects Grant," 2005
2004
The Fifth Floor Foundation Grant
2003
The Traywick Award
2002
Visiting Artist, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000
Fellow, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
1999
Artist in Residence, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
1996-7
Fellow, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY
1993
Barclay Simpson Award
1990
Excellence in Drawing Award, The Cooper Union
Alex Katz Scholarship to Skowhegan

Published Prints

2006
Tamarind Press, Albuquerque, NM: 3 editions
2005/6
Robert Brown Publishers, Washington, DC: two series of prints
2003
Goya Girls Press, Baltimore, MD: 3 editions.

Curatorial Work and Published Writing

2001
Curator, Aether, a traveling exhibition: New Haven CT and Pittsburgh, PA
2000
Exhibition Designer, Hannah Wilke, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1999
Curator and Exhibition Designer for Second and Third Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
1998
Co-Founder, Curator and Coordinator of City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
1996
Co-Curator and Coordinator of A Large Show of Small Works, New York, NY
Curator and Coordinator of the Cooper Union Alumni Painting Exhibition, New York, NY
1995
Essay for the Catalogue of The Cooper Union Faculty Painting Exhibition

Public Collections

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The American Legacy Foundation, Washington, DC
Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Swiss Re, NYC
Pfizer, NYC
Sprint, KS
Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Selected Bibliography

2010
Philadelphia Inquirer, “Very, Very Large” By Edith Newhall, Dec 12, 2010
Philadelphia Weekly, “size matters” by Roberta Fallon, Jan 13-19, 2010
Broad Street Review, “Supersized Drawings at Gallery Joe”, Jan 12, 2010
City Paper, “Well-Endowed”, by Robin Rice, Jan 7-14, 2010
Artsmarttalk, “Drawings Big and Small”, by Marilyn MacGregor, December 26, 2010
2009
The Washington Post, “Artist Goes Flat-Out to Draw the Viewer In, “ by Michael O’Sullivan, February 20, 2009
2008
Art in America, “To A Different Drum,” by J.W. Mahoney, May 2008 Artweek, “The Space Between at SJICA,” by Frank Cebulski, June 2008, Vol. 39, Issue 5
2007
McLead, Deborah. "Interval Affairs," Baltimore City Paper, Jan. 24 McNatt, Glenn. "Drawing Values Meticulous Mark-Making," The Baltimore Sun, Jan. 27
2006
"New Prints Review," Art on Paper, November-December 2006
2005
Lawrence, Sydney. “Capital Roundup," ArtNet.com, Nov. 29, 2005
Dawson, Jessica. “A Bit of the Ocean…," The Washington Post, Nov. 19, 2005
Wennerstrom, Nord. “Linn Meyers at G Fine Art," ArtForum.com, Nov 5, 2005
Art On Paper, “Linn Meyers, "everything matters," September, 2005
Rosof, Libby. “Sea of love and my guy Krishna”, fallonandrosof.com/artblog, May 26, 2005
Sozanski, Edward. “Pastels breathing as if alive”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 2005.
2004
Cape Cod Times, "The Freedom of staying Inside the Lines", August 12 2004
2003
New American Paintings, Mid Atlantic Region, 2003
Jacobson, Louis. "Linn Meyers", Washington City Paper, May 16, 2003
Dawson, Jessica. "Compulsively Quirky", Washington Post, May 15, 2003
Karlins, N.F., "Dotty", Art Net.com, June 2003
Shaw, Kurt. "Lining Up the Message", Pittsburg Tribune-Review, March 28,2003
Thomas, Mary. "Meditative Markings", Pittsburg Post-Gazette, March 15, 2003
Thomas, Brenner. "Portrait of An Artist: Linn Meyers", Provincetown Magazine, July 24-31, 2003
Art In America, "Linn Meyers at George Billis" February, 2003
2002
Sozanski, Edward. Philadelphia, Inquirer, November 29, 2002
2001
Venkatashban, Sharmila. "Religious Instruction", Pittsburgh City Paper, November 7, 2001
Shaw, Kurt. "Mattress Factory Opens Doors to Pittsburgh Artists", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 4, 2001
Thomas, Mary. "Private Gestures for Public Contemplation", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 27, 2001
Wilson, Ellen. "Photos Give Insight into Artistic Process", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, October 1, 2001
Jacobson, Louis. "87,561 Strokes and Other Works", Washington City Paper, September 21, 2001
Thomas, Mary. "Transcendent Works Reach for the Aether", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 1, 2001
Shaw, Kurt. "Three Art Stories", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, August 31, 2001
2000
Shearing, Graham. "The Transformative Magic of Shadows", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 10, 2000
Modzelewski, Eve. "Shadow Garden Provides Escape", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, November 22, 2000
Shinn, Dorothy. "An Intriguing Mix from Pittsburgh Artists", Akron Beacon Journal, October 1, 2000
Shearing, Graham. "No Theme, but Plenty of Content", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, March 17, 2000
Winn, Alice. "Not a Theme Park", Pittsburgh City Paper, March 10, 2000
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Eclectic PCA Show an Engaging Mix", March 4, 2000
The Washington Post, "Playing with Light", March 2, 2000
Dawson, Jessica. "Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear", Washington City Paper, February 2000
1999
Birke, Judy. "Inside the Artist's Studio", New Haven Register, May 23, 1999
1997
Szabo, Julia. "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", New York Newsday, February 14, 1997
Harrison, Helen A. "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", New York Times, February 2, 1997
1994
Saeks, Diane Dorrans. "A New Take on Old Masters", San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 1994