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LINDA KING

• Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2007"incognito" Group Exhibition (Benefit) Santa Monica Museum
  of Art, CA
• 2006"Fragments" Linda King, Nana Gregory Art Gallery Cypress
  College, CA
• "Spill" Group Exhibition The Loft San Pedro, CA
• "Incognito" Group Exhibition (Benefit) Santa Monica Museum of
  Art, CA
• 2005"Flow" Exhibition Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
• 2004"Red Pen" Group Exhibition SAC Arts Gallery, Santa Ana College, CA
• "Incognito" Group Exhibition (Benefit) Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA,
• "Mark Making" Schneider Museum of Art Southern Oregon University, OR
• "Venice Art Auction 25th Anniversary" Venice Family Clinic, CA
• 2003"Drawings 25.04.01-25.04.02" One Person Exhibition, LAHC Gallery, San Pedro, CA
• "No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting" POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• "Gathering of Angels 2003-04" Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
• 2002"1,030 Drawings" Studio Installation September, 2002
• "dadada" Three Person Exhibition, Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2001"Two Person Exhibition: recent works by Linda King and Julie Scott"
• Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 2000"Panorama's Box" Three Person Exhibition, Huntington Beach Art Center
• "Group Exhibition" Grey McGear Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
• "White" Exhibition, Group Invitational , Huntington Beach Art Center
• "A Gathering of Angels" Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro,CA
• 1999"Remembrance of Things Past" Solo Exhibition Grey McGear Modern,
  Santa Monica, CA
• "Group Exhibition" Dirt Gallery, Hollywood, CA
• "Gallery Artists" MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• "Faculty Exhibition" Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
• 1998"Paradise Lost: Abstraction after Modernism, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
• "Group Exhibition" Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA
• "Gallery Artists" MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• "Six L.A. Artists" Percival Gallery, DesMoines, IA
• 1997"Landscapes" Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• "Vital Ground" One Person Exhibition Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• "Group Exhibition" BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1996"Material Witness" Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery CA
• "Group Exhibition" BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• "Art Faculty Art" Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
• 1995"Memoirs" Exhibition Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
• "Art Faculty Art" Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
• 1994"One Person Exhibition" MC Gallery , Minneapolis, MN
• "Found Objects" Long Beach Arts , Long Beach, CA
• 1993"Outer Scapes: Landspaces of California" Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 1992"Altered Landscapes" Solo Exhibition, Long Beach City College, CA "Gallery Artists
  Exhibition" MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• "New Art Examiner Exhibition & Auction" World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Art Faculty Art" Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
• "New Space: Premiere Opening" Butters Gallery,Portland,OR
• "P.C.A. Artist Registry Exhibition" L.B.C.C. Gallery,Long Beach,CA
• 1991"Subtle Balances: Works on Paper" Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Ink and Silver II" Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
• "The Point is Made" Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
• "One Person Exhibition" Portland State University, Portland, OR
• 1990"Strategies in Abstraction: Kurt Eckert, Linda King, Matt Straub" Deson-Saunders
  Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "New Work for a New Decade" Gallery Vienna Annex, Chicago, IL
• "Gallery Artists" M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• "Eccentric Landscapes" Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Quincy 40th Annual Juried Art Show" Quincy, IL
• "N.A.M.E. Gallery Benefit Auction Exhibition" N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1989"Exhibition 12" Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition, UIC, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
• "Linda King: Monoprints" Wenniger Gallery, Provinceton,MA
• "Color" Canon Color Laser Copier Exhibition, UIC, Gallery 400, Chicago,IL
• "Reverse Angle" Kulturverein Transcult, WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
• "Reverse Angle" Transcult: Chicago/Vienna Exchange, Chicago,IL
• "The Very Top: Chicago Women Painters" R. H. Love Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "WARM Gallery Invitational: Three Artists" WARM Gallery, Minneapolis,MN
• 1988"Size of Chicago", Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Hudson Valley ¼88", Arts and Science Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Prints from the Illinois State Museum Collection", ArtGallery, I.S.M.
• "444" Four Brothers Press Exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
• "Artists Liaison" exhibition finalist, 1988 catalog, Chicago/Los Angeles
• 1987"Group Exhibition" Bates Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1986"Group Exhibition" Fort Apache Gallery, Hippodrome, London
• "International Contemporary Arts Festival" Olympia Center London, England
• "Group Exhibition" Fort Apache Gallery Chicago, IL
• 1985"One-Person Exhibition" Philadelphia Art Alliance PA
• "Linda King/Brenda Barnum" Peter Miller Gallery Chicago.IL
• "Chicago" Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL
• "One-Person Show" WARM Gallery Minneapolis, MN
• "Post-Industrial Paint" Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL
• "Erotica:Women Creating Beyond the Sexual" University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI
• "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1984" Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN
• "One-Person Exhibition" Illinois Arts Council Chicago, IL
• "On/Of Paper" University of Wisconsin Superior, WI
• "Artist as Printmaker" Brooklyn Museum NY
• 1983"Ninth Annual Juried Exhibition of Illinois Artists" Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
• "Paintings and Monoprints" Grand Valley College, Grand Rapids, MI
• 1982"One Person Show" Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL
• "One Person Show" Blackburn College Carlinville, IL
• 1981"31st Annual Exhibition" Quincy Arts Center Quincy, IL
• 1980"One-Person Show" Cedar Rapids Art Museum Cedar Rapids, IA
• "23rd Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art" New York, NY
• "32nd Annual Exhibition: Iowa Artists ¼80" Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, IA
• "36th Annual Painting Competition" Abilene, TX
• "Purdue University Small Print Exhibition" South Bend, IN
• 1979"Ninth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition" Southwest Texas University San Marcos, TX
• "Los Angeles Sixth National Print Exhibition" Traveling Show CA
• "Society of the Four Arts National Painting Exhibition" Palm Beach, FL

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Freeman, Tommy, "Delicious Acrimony; The Paintings of Linda King" Fragments Catalog,
  Cypress College Exhibition, 2006
• Frank, Peter, "Flow" Exhibition Catalog, Riverside Art Mueum, 2005
• Littlefield,Kinney, "Variations on White; Rich at the Surface" Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2000
• Cooper, Jacqueline, "A report from the Trenches" New Art Examiner, February, 2000
• Brown, Betty Ann, "Paradise Lost, ArtScene, October,1998
• ArtWeek Cover April ,1997 Vol. 28 #4
• "The Elements: Water Subject, substance, symbol, site" ArtWeek, April, 1997
• Pagel,David, Review, L.A. Times, April 11,1997
• Frank,Peter, Pick of the Week ; "Memoirs", LA Weekly, 1995
• King, Linda, "Why is There More Than One?", CAA Abstract, 1992
• The Midwest Art Alliance Publication, 1992
• James, Lois, "Linda King; An Artist at AGCC", The Gate, Spring 1992
• Gragg, Randy, "Butters exhibits Portland¼s hippest Art", The Oregonian, January 6, 1991
• Cassidy, Victor, "New Work for a New Decade", Gallery Vienna News, (January 1990): 1-2.
• "Color," Canon Color Laser Copier Book, Gallery 400 , UIC School of Art and Design, 1989.
• Yood, James, "Exhibition 12" UIC Studio Art Faculty Exhibition catalog, 1989.
• Transcult, "Reverse Angle" Transcultural Exchange Chicago/Vienna, A.C.M.
(Another Chicago Magazine), 1989.
• "The Germans Are Coming", Chicago Magazine, May/June 1989.
• King, Linda, "Search for Content", Chicago/Art/Write, Spring 1988.
• McDougall, Littell, English Grammar & Composition, three works reproduced, 1988.
• Thorson, Alice & Yood, James, "Who Follows the Hairy Who?", New Art Examiner, March 1985
• Segard, Michael, "Post-Industrial Paint", New Art Examiner, Nov. 1984.
• Cameron, Dan, "A New Generation of Chicago Artists", Artnews, Oct.1984.
• Lyons, Christopher, "Post-Industrial Paint", Chicago Sun-Times, July 1984.
• Taylor, Sue, "In Search of Primal Meanings: Primitivism and Ritual in Recent Chicago Art",
  New Art Examiner, May 1984.
• Ferrulli, Helen, "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1984" ,catalog essay for Indianapolis Museum.
• Bonesteel, Michael, "Art Facts: Three Expressions of Neo-Expressionism", Reader, 1982.
• Rebora, Joyce, "Reviews", New Art Examiner, Dec. 1982.

AWARDS

• 1990CAP Grant Chicago,Illinois
• 1985Municipal Art League Prize, "81st Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition"
• 1984Illinois Arts Council Technical Assistance Grant
• WARM Invitational Grant
• Illinois Arts Council Exhibition Grant
• 1982Honorable Mention, Illinois State Fair Professional Exhibition
• 1981Honorable Mention, Illinois State Fair Professional Exhibition
• Purchase Award, "31st Annual Art Exhibition"
• Best Drawing, "23rd Annual Chautauqua National"
• 1980Best of Show, "32nd Annual Iowa Exhibition"
• Faculty Development Grant, Sangamon State University
• 1979-80Ford Foundation Scholarships and/or Teaching Assistantships
• 1975-76Ford Foundation Scholarships and/or Teaching Assistantships
• 1971-73Teaching Assistantships

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
• Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
• University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
• University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, WI
• University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Quincy Art Club, Quincy, IL

CO-CURATED

• "NATURE/Nature" Exhibition, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago,
  Curators: Linda King, Karen Indeck

PANEL MEMBER/LECTURER

• 2007"Business of Art" Panelist Long Beach Arts Council Long Beach, CA
• 1992"Multiples: Why are there more than one?" C.A.A. Annual Conference, Chicago,IL
• Paper presented at the Museu de Gravura de Curitiba, Brazil
• Artist Lecture, CSULB, Graduate Painting Seminar
• 1991Exhibition Lecture, Gallery 299, Portland State University
• Public Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art. Portland, Oregon
• 1990"New Work for a New Decade," Gallery Vienna Annex, Chicago, IL
• 1989Artist Lecture, "Man & His Environment" The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

• MFA June 1979 - University of Iowa Iowa City, IA
• MA June 1976 - California State University Humboldt, CA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1991-       Professor Long Beach City College, CA
• 1990-1991Visiting Artist The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• 1987-1991Assistant Professor The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
• 1984-1987Instructor Columbia College, Chicago,IL
• 1980-1983Assistant Professor Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL
• 1978-1980Assistant Director Art Resource Center, University of Iowa, IA