Linda Kunik

Kunik began as a watercolorist and landscape painter, but, wanting to work more conceptually, she returned to school, earning a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Informed by environmental issues and questions that impact daily life, Kunik’s abstract paintings began referencing environmental problems, which prompted her to begin a four-year community gardening project that also fed a large number of hungry artist/gardeners. Kunik then turned to fine art photography in order to investigate perception as it relates to the vegetables she cultivated in her gardens. Using photos from her travels as a reference, she then began combining photography and painting and an emulsion process to continue her exploration of perception.
Kunik has been in more than 80 exhibitions, including numerous solo shows. She has also exhibited most recently at Art Basel in 2018 and Art Basel Miami in 2017, at Germany’s Contemporary Art Ruhr, in Italy, Thailand and Peru. Her work has also been in Photo LA (2011 and 2012), and has also been shown in galleries and museums in New York and throughout California. In addition, Kunik had painting residencies in Canisy, France, Assisi, Italy, and Civitella D’Agliano and Casalabate, Italy. Kunik was born in ...

2016 BAU Institute/Puglia Residency, Casalabate, Italy
PSU International Art Workshop 2016, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand
KMUTNB International Art and Design Workshop 2016, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North
Bangkok, Rayong, & Bangkok, Thailand
Art Lab, Civitella d’Agliano, Italy – Two-week painting residency – Honorable Mention
Mentorship with Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison on LA & the Rising of Waters Exhibition
BFA, with Honors, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
Assisi, Italy –Three-week painting residency
Canisy, France –Three-week painting residency
Los Angeles County Museum of Art-Art Docent (7 years)
M Ed, Reading & Learning Disabilities, with Distinction in the Curriculum, DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois
BA, Spanish Education & Psychology, with High Honors, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

2013 - 2019
2019 Solo Exhibition, Disconnect, Mangiafoglia, Napoli, Italy
Edge of History, Italian Exchange Exhibition, Curated by Cynthia Penna, Gallery
825, LA, CA & Villa di Donato, Napoli, Italy
19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition,National Art Center of Tokyo,
Tokyo,Japan
STRATA, Two Woman Show, Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA
LINDA KUNIK ICONS OF BEVERLY HILLS,“Modern Luxury Beverly Hills,” 7/2019
“Meet Trailblazer Linda Kunik,” “Voyage LA.com. July 15, 2019
34th Annual Juried Art Exibition, Museum of Art and History:Cedar, Lancaster, CA
Celebrating the National Lands of CA, Wilding Museum of Art and Nature,
LA Artcore’s 3rd Annual Photography Exhibition, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, LA, CA

2018 Ping Pong, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition, A Fragile Strength, Gallery 825, LA Art Association, LA, CA
Beverly Hills Art Show, Juried Exhibition, Beverly Hills, CA
Bunker Opens Doors, Juried by Peter Frank, Great Hall, W. Hollywood, CA
LINESOFSIGHT, Quixote Studios WeHo, W. Hollywood, CA
ART SPEAKS Lend Your Voice, Juried by Jill Moniz, Annual Conference of
Women's Caucus for Art, LA, CA
Music for Your Eyes, Juried by Peter Frank, Orange County Center for Con...