Linn Meyers, Pittsburgh Alumni

Linn Meyers

EDUCATION
BFA 1990, Painting; The Cooper Union, New York, NY
MFA 1993, Painting; California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (catalogue)
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2004 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (Project Room)
Ernden Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
2003 Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Ernden Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
2002 The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
George Billis Gallery, NYC, NY, (catalogue)
Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 George Billis Gallery, NYC, NY
1998 Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
St. Peter's Church, NYC, NY
1997 Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Zoon, New Haven, CT
Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Full Circle
2004 Second Street Gallery, Charlottsville, VA DC Now
2003 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Drawn
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY Round
2002 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 4 drawing artists
Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC Abstraction and Illusion
2001 The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA Gestures
The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Aether
Forland Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Photographs By Artists Made for a Variety of Purposes
Untitled(Space), New Haven, CT Aether
Art Santa Fe, George Billis Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA Modern/Modular
Three Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Lumenroom
Bowman & Penelec Gallery, Meadville, PA 8 hour drawings, Part III
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 Pittsburgh Biennial, (catalogue)
University Art Gallery, University of Ohio, Akron 15xxx
Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD Art Making 2000
1999 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Not a Theme Show, (catalogue)
Signal 66, Washingtn, D.C. Shimmer
Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, SF, CA Beyond the Facade
1998 ArtSpace, New Haven, CT Postmark International
The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT Linn Meyers, Betty Garrich
1997 Gallery 2621, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition
1996 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 144 Inches Square
The Houghton Gallery, New York, NY Paintings and Works on Paper
1995 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, NY National Small Works Show
1994 Frank Bustemante Gallery, New York, NY Art-in-March
1993 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA The Bus Shelter Gallery
1992 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA Annual Small Works Exhibition


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
DC Commission for the Arts, "Small Projects Grant," 2005
Fifth Floor Foundation Grant, 2004
The Trawick Award, third place September, 2003
Visiting Artist, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001
Artist in Residence, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska Nov 99 - Jan 2000
Artist in Residence, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY August, 1999
Fellow, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY September1996 - March 1997
Barclay Simpson Award, 1993
Excellence in Drawing Award, The Cooper Union,1990
Alex Katz Scholarship to Skowhegan, 1990


CURATORIAL WORK AND PUBLISHED WRITING
Curator of Aether, a traveling exhibition: New haven CT, Apr 2001; Pittsburgh, PA, 2001
Exhibition Designer, Hannah Wilke, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000
Curator & Exhibition Designer for second & third annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Co-founder, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, Ct, 1998
Curator and coordinator of The Cooper Union Alumni Painting Exhibition, New York, NY, 1996
Essay for the catalogue of The Cooper Union Faculty Painting Exhibition, (catalogue), 1995


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Werner Kramarsky, NYC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The American Legacy Foundation, Washington, DC
Sloan-Kettering, NYC
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Cooper Union, NYC
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
The Pitsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Swiss Re, NYC
Pfizer, NYC
Sprint, KS
Health Strategies, Washington, DC


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cape Cod Times, "The Freedom of Staying Inside the Lines," Aug 12, 2004
New American Paintings, Mid Atlantic Region, 2004
Washington City Paper, "Linn Meyers", Louis Jacobson, May 16, 2003,
Washington Post, "Compulsively Quirky, Jessica Dawson, May 15, 2003,
Art Net.com, "Dotty", N.F.Karlins, June 2003
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Lining Up The Message," Kurt Shaw, March 28, 2003
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Meditative markings," Mary Thomas, Mar 15, 2003
Provincetown Magazine, "Portrait of An Artist: Linn Meyers," Brenner Thomas, July 24 -31, 2003
Art in America, "Linn Meyers at George Billis," Matthew Guy Nichols, Feb 2003
Pittsburgh Business Times, "Sublime Statements," Larry Slater, Dec 6-12, 2002
The Philadelphia Weekly, "Clay Time," Roberta Fallon, Nov 2002
The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Linn Meyers at Gallery Joe," Edward J. Sozanski, Nov 29, 2002
New York Arts, "Linn Meyers at George Billis Gallery" Deborah Frizzell, June, 2002
Pittsburgh City Paper, "Religious Instruction," Sharmila Venkatashban, Nov 7, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Mattress Factory Opens Doors to Pittsburgh Artists," Kurt Shaw, Nov 4, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Private Gestures for Public Contemplation", Mary Thomas, Oct 27, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Photos Give Insight into Artistic Process," Ellen Wilson, Oct 1, 2001
Washington City Paper, "87,561 Strokes and Other Works," Louis Jacobson, Sept 21, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Transcendent Works Reach for the 'Aether'", Mary Thomas, September 1, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "Three Art Stories", Kurt Shaw, August 31, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "The Transformative Magic of Shadows", Graham Shearing, November 10, 2000
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Shadow Garden provides Escape", Eve Modzelewski, Nov. 22, 2000
Akron Beacon Journal, "An intriguing Mix from Pittsburgh Artists", Dorothy Shinn, Oct 1, 2000
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "No Theme, But Plenty of Content", Graham Shearing, March 17, 2000
Pittsburgh City Paper, "Not a Theme Park", Alice Winn, March 10, 2000
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Eclectic PCA Show an Engaging Mix", March 4, 2000
The Washington Post, "Playing with Light", March 2, 2000
Washington City Paper, "Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear", Jessica Dawson, February 25, 2000
New Haven Register, "Inside the Artist's Studio", Judy Birke, May 23, 1999
New York Newsday, "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", Julia Szabo, February 14, 1997
The New York Times, "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", Helen A Harrison, Feb 2, 1997
San Francisco Cronicle, "A New Take on Old Masters", Diane Dorrans Saeks, May 3, 1994