Jennifer Linton

Jennifer Linton is a contemporary visual artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Fine Arts Diploma from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto and Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia. She has received numerous awards, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

The primary focus of my art practice has been to address gender-related issues and represent the experiences of women. Inspired by the second wave feminists, who coined the phrase the personal is political, my work reflects my personal experiences filtered through the lens of art history, mythology and popular culture. In my series of drawings entitled The Bitter Seed (2000), I combined family photographs with the ancient Greek legend of Persephone as a means to address the difficult territory of child abuse. Similarly, in the series St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins (2003)
I masqueraded as St. Ursula, the patron saint of schoolgirls, and transformed her into a guardian angel/sword-wielding avenger for the purposes of exploring themes...

1994 -- awarded certificate in Computer Applications in Graphic Design, University of Toronto.

1992 -- completion of the cooperative Art & Art History program and simultaneously awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Fine Arts Diploma from Sheridan College in Oakville.
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