Linda Stein

Throughout her artistic career, Linda Stein's work has addressed issues of persecution and protection, focusing on oppression of the “other” through the lens of anti-bullying and social justice. As result of running for an entire day from the falling Twin Towers in the Ground Zero area of Manhattan, her previously-abstract work after 9/11 became figurative, armor-like, and she realized that she was creating visual and visceral symbols of protection, androgynous sentinel-like figures to stand guard against the foe. Her work often incorporates a family of pop-culture and religious icons like Wonder Woman, Princess Mononoke, Lisbeth Salander, Lady Gaga, Storm and Nausicaa, that start conversations about issues of power and vulnerability.

Her works are in more than 30 museum permanent collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Georgia Museum of Art, and Ringling Museum of Art in the US; Victoria Gallery & Museum and Manchester Art Gallery in the UK; Konstmuseet i Skövde in Sweden; and Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Sweden.

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Master’s Degree, Pratt Institute, New York

Bachelor’s Degree (Cum Laude), Queens College, New York

Pratt Graphics Center, New York

Art Students League, New York

School of Visual Arts, New York

A complete CV can be found here:
https://www.lindastein.com/curriculum-vitae

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

ARMORED FOR TODAY'S EVENTS, Mott Community College, Flint, MI

LINDA STEIN: A SOLO EXHIBITION, Gateway Regional Arts Center, Mt. Sterling, KY

HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES–TAPESTRIES AND SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN, Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, TX

FEMINISM! PROTECTION! SEXUALITY! THE ART OF LINDA STEIN, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

2023

HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES–TAPESTRIES AND SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN, Kent State University, Kent, OH. An accredited Special Topics Course with a curriculum based on Stein's Holocaust Heroes exhibition has taken place at Kent and will be repeated at the time of the exhibition.

ANDROGYNOUS PROTECTION: A LINDA STEIN RETROSPECTIVE; Konstmuseet i Skövde; Sweden

LINDA STEIN: GENDER SCRAMBLING; Victoria Gallery & Museum; University of Liverpool; Liverpool, UK

SCRAMBLING EXPECTATIONS: INTRODUCING LINDA STEIN TO THE COLLECTION; Konstmuseet i Skövde; Sweden

2022

THE FLUIDITY OF GENDER: SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN, Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA

HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES–TAPESTRIES AND SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN, International Holocaust Conference at the Wagner ...