Objectified Man 4, 1999, oil on board, 7 x 5 inches

Joan Linder (b. 1970) works with the traditional materials of a quill pen and ink to create large-scale drawings of figures, objects, and sites of meaning that explore the relationship between the observer and the observed. Often rendering her subjects in life-size, artworks examine a diversity of subject matter aiming to express the complexity and variety of contemporary life.

Linder has exhibited at Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Davis Gallery, Hobart William Smith Colleges, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Queens Museum, Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now Buffalo AKG), Omi International Art Center, Sun Valley Art Center, and Weatherspoon Art Museum, among others. She studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and holds a MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Tufts University. Past awards and residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, Smack Mellon, Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, plus a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Linder lives and works in Buffalo, NY and is a Professor of Art at the University of Buffalo.

*Inhabit,* 2022, Laminated Glass, 42 x 90 inches

SELECT SOLO Exhibitions

Prime, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, NY, 2023
Brood, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2020
Operation Sunshine, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, PA, 2018
Atomic Highways and Byways, Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017
Operation Sunshine, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, 2016
Drawn Home, Charles Benenson Gallery, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY, 2014
Sink, Mixed Greens, New York, NY, 2013
Domestic Products, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
the pink, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 2007
White Room, White Columns, 2003
When? Now., Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, NY, 2000