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Linda Besemer Biography
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1981 |
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B.F.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Yale University Summer Program
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1983 |
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M.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1999 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
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The George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation Fellowship in Painting
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2002 |
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Chuck Close Rome Prize in Painting from the American Academy in Rome
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The Graham L. Sterling Award, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
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1987 - 2010 |
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Professor at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
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Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France (solo)
Synthetics, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Small is Beautiful, June Lee Contemporary Art, Laguna Hills, CA
In Bed Together, Royal T, Los Angeles, CA
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2008
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Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
California Video, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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2007
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Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
Experimental Film and Video Festival (EXiS), Seoul Art Cinema & Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Renderyard Film Festival, Roxy Theater, West Hollywood, CA; Soho Screening Rooms, London, UK; The Escape Gallery, London, UK
18th Festival internacional de curtas-metragens de Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Compass of Resistance International Film Festival: Radical Reels: Five Minutes of Mayhem!, Cube Microplex, Bristol, UK
Video Art Start From Zero: Festival Miden, Alekton Artspace, Athens, Greece
Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Stock, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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2006
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Hotel California, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
southwestNET: Painting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
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2005
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Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Pardners, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
New Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Op...ish; An Attempt at hyper-extension of the pure visual experience, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA
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2004
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Cohan & Leslie, New York, NY (solo)
New Geometries, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
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2003
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One Word: Plastic, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Sight Mapping, APT Gallery, London, UK
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2002
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Cohan Leslie + Browne, New York, NY (solo)
Vignettes: Modern and Contemporary Art from Colorado Collections, Colorado University Art Gallery, Boulder, CO
Sight Mapping, Konsthallen-Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
ColorLove, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO
prima facie, New Abstract Painting, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New In Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Summer 2002, Cohan Leslie + Browne, New York, NY
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2001
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Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
furur scribendi, Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works on Paper, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
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2000
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Glee, The Alrdrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Inventional, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works on Paper from California, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Luminous, IKON, LTD., Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Escondido Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Muscle: Power of the View, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
CAART, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
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1999
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Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Five Continents and One City: New Paintings from Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America, Palacio de Los Condes de Santiago de Calimaya, Museum of Mexico City,Mexico City, Mexico
Millennium Madness, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston and Miami, The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC; The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Local Color, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
TwistFoldLayerFlake, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
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1998
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Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Polysemy, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Color Fields, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Los Angeles, CA
10 x 20, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
8.1-29.98, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
6130, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
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1997
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Spot Making Sense, Grand Art, Kansas City, MO
Women’s Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC
The Box, Marcia Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Push, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sex Industry, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
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1996
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Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
On and Off the Wall, The Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange County, CA
Red, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
After, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Gift of Vision, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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1995
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Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA (solo)
Detachable Stroke #14, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
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1994
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Constructed Views, Woodbury University Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flow, Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, Cerritos, CA
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1993
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10 x 10, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
A Carafe That is a Blind Glass, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1991
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Save the Penis, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, CA
Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
The Central Image, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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The University of Arizona Museum, Tempe, AZ
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