Education
| MFA June 1979, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
| MA June 1976, California State University Humboldt, CA |
Professional Experience
| 1991-2018 | Professor, Long Beach City College, CA |
| 1990-1991 | Visiting Artist, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1987-1991 | Assistant Professor, The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL |
| 1984-1987 | Instructor, Columbia College, Chicago,IL |
| 1980-1983 | Assistant Professor, Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL |
| 1978-1980 | Assistant Director, Art Resource Center, University of Iowa, IA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | "Indicators and Origins," Studio Exhibition, Venice, CA |
| 2018 | “Linda King New Paintings,” 515 Gallery, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2017 | “Paintings Linda King,” Art Gallery, VMA, LBCC, Long Beach, CA |
| 2016 | “Recent Works,” Studio Exhibition, Venice, CA |
| 2013 | “Linda King,”, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, CA |
| 2012 | “Solo Exhibition,” den contemporary, West Hollywood, CA |
| 2009 | “Collages,” POST Gallery, September 5, 2009, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | “COLOR,” 1,606 Paintings, Studio Installation, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 | “Drawings 25.04.01-25.04.02,” One Person Exhibition, LAHC Gallery, San Pedro, CA |
| 2002 | “1,030 Drawings,” Studio Installation, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 | “Remembrance of Things Past,” Solo Exhibition, Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA |
| “Vital Ground,” One Person Exhibition, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1995 | “Memoirs,” Exhibition, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994 | “One Person Exhibition,” MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1992 | “Altered Landscapes,” Solo Exhibition, Long Beach City College, CA |
| 1991 | “One Person Exhibition,” Portland State University, OR |
| 1989 | “Linda King: Monoprints,” Wenniger Gallery, Provinceton, MA |
| 1985 | “One-Person Exhibition,” Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA |
| “One-Person Exhibition,” Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL | |
| “One-Person Show,” WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 1982 | “One-Person Show,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “One-Person Show,” Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL | |
| 1980 | “One-Person Show,” Cedar Rapids Art Museum, IA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2021 | "The Scribes," Roswell Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| “Prevailing Sensations: Current Abstract Painting in Los Angeles and New York”, Robert Kingston, Linda King, Tom McGlynn, Scott Reeds, Virtual Exhibition, I-BEAM Gallery | |
| 2019 | “All Media 2019”, Juror, Constance Mallinson, Irvine fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA |
| 2018 | “Polychromatic Mojo: Color as Content,” Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA |
| “Haiku Walk”, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson,Brydcliffe Colony, Woodstock, NY | |
| 2015 | “Southern California Abstraction Now,” Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2013 | “This Side of the 405: Freeway Studies #1,” Ben Maltz Gallery, StudioTours, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 | “Painting (Los Angeles),” another year in LA gallery, West Hollywood, CA “Green Tambourine |
| “Abstract Painting, Group Exhibition, Kamikaze Show curated by Robert Kingston, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2011 | “DECADE+,” Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA |
| “outpourings: expansive color paintings,” Linda King, Jack Chipman, Sheldon Figoten, Phantom Gallery, Long Beach, CA | |
| 2010 | “Not In My Backyard,” den contemporary art, Los Angeles, CA |
| “Brilliant Paintings & Amazing Ceramics,” Group Exhibition, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA | |
| “Faculty Exhibition,” Art Department Gallery, Long Beach City College, CA | |
| 2009 | “Preservation/Conservation,” Curated by Nancy Macko, LAX, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | “Fragments,” Linda King, Nana Gregory Art Gallery, Cypress College, CA |
| “Spill,” The Loft, San Pedro, CA | |
| 2005 | “Flow,” Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, CA |
| 2004 | “Mark Making,” Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, OR |
| “Red Pen,” SAC Arts Gallery, Santa Ana College, CA | |
| “Venice Art Auction 25th Anniversary,” Venice Family Clinic, CA | |
| 2003 | “No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting,” POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| “Gathering of Angels 2003-04“ Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA | |
| 2002 | “White” Exhibition, Group Invitational, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA |
| “A Gathering of Angels,” Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA | |
| “dadada” Three Person Exhibition, Eastwick Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2001 | “Two Person Exhibition: Recent Works by Linda King and Julie Scott,” Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | “Panorama’s Box,” Three Person Exhibition, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA |
| “Group Exhibition,” Grey McGear Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1999 | “Group Exhibition,” Dirt Gallery, Hollywood, CA |
| “Gallery Artists,” MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| “Faculty Exhibition,” Long Beach City College, CA | |
| 1998 | “Group Exhibition,” Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA |
| “Gallery Artists,” MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| “Six L.A. Artists,” Percival Gallery, Des Moines, IA | |
| 1997 | “Group Exhibition,” BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1996 | “Material Witness,” Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, CA |
| “Group Exhibition,” BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| “Art Faculty Art,” Long Beach City College, CA | |
| 1995 | “Art Faculty Art,” Long Beach City College, CA |
| 1994 | “Found Objects,” Long Beach Arts, CA |
| 1993 | “Outer Scapes: Landscapes of California,” Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
| 1992 | “Gallery Artists Exhibition,” MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| “New Art Examiner Exhibition & Auction,” World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| “Art Faculty Art,” Long Beach City College, CA | |
| “New Space: Premiere Opening,” Butters Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| “P.C.A. Artist Registry Exhibition,” Long Beach City College, CA | |
| 1991 | “Subtle Balances: Works on Paper,” Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “Ink and Silver II,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL | |
| “The Point is Made,” Butters Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| 1990 | “Strategies in Abstraction: Kurt Eckert, Linda King & Matt Straub,” Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “New Work for a New Decade,” Gallery Vienna Annex, Chicago, IL | |
| “Gallery Artists,” M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| “Eccentric Landscapes,” Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1989 | “Exhibition 12,” Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
| “Color,” Canon Color Laser Copier Exhibition,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL | |
| “Reverse Angle,” Kulturverein Transcult, WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria | |
| “Reverse Angle,” Transcult: Chicago/Vienna Exchange, Chicago, IL | |
| “The Very Top: Chicago Women Painters,” R.H. Love Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| “WARM Gallery Invitational: Three Artists,” WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 1988 | “Size of Chicago,” Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “Hudson Valley ‘88,” Arts and Science Center, Poughkeepsie, NY | |
| “Prints from the Illinois State Museum Collection,” Art Gallery, Illinois State Museum, IL | |
| “444,” Four Brothers Press Exhibition,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL | |
| “Artists Liaison,” Exhibitions Finalist, 1988 Catalog, Chicago/Los Angeles | |
| 1987 | “Group Exhibition,” Bates Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1986 | “Group Exhibition,” Fort Apache Gallery, Hippodrome, London |
| “International Contemporary Arts Festival,” Olympia Center, London, England | |
| “Group Exhibition,” Fort Apache Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1985 | “Linda King/Brenda Barnum,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “Chicago,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| “Post-Industrial Paint,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| “Erotica: Women Creating Beyond the Sexual,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI | |
| “Painting and Sculpture Today, 1984,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN | |
| “On/Of Paper,” University of Wisconsin, Superior, WI | |
| “Artist as Printmaker,” Brooklyn Museum, NY | |
| 1983 | “Ninth Annual Juried Exhibition of Illinois Artists,” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| “Paintings and Monoprints,” Grand Valley College, Grand Rapids, MI | |
| 1981 | “31st Annual Exhibition,” Quincy Arts Center, IL |
| 1980 | “23rd Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art,” New York, NY |
| “32nd Annual Exhibition: Iowa Artists ‘80,” Des Moines Art Center, IA | |
| “36th Annual Painting Competition,” Abilene, TX | |
| “Purdue University Small Print Exhibition,” South Bend, IN | |
| 1979 | “Ninth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition,” Southwest Texas University, San Marcos, TX |
| “Los Angeles Sixth National Painting Exhibition,” Traveling Show, CA | |
| “Society of the Four Arts National Painting Exhibition,” Palm Beach, FL |
Selected Reviews and Publications
| Interview; Meet Linda King Artist, shoutoutla.com, April 26, 2021 |
| Mallinson,Constance, “David DiMichele’s I-Beam Gallery Part 2”, art and cake: a Contemporary Art Magazine with a Focus on the Los Angeles Art Scene , March 20,2021 artandcake.la.com |
| DiMichele, David, Exhibition Essay, “Prevailing Sensations: Current Abstract Painting in Los Angeles and New York" |
| Najarian, Hagop, “Chromatic Mojo: Color as Content,” Exhibition Catalog, 2018 |
| Chipman, Jack, “A Persistent Practice: Southern California Abstraction Now,” Visual Art Source.com, October, 2015 |
| Frank, Peter, “Going with the Flow; Flow Painters” Art Ltd., March 2008 |
| Freeman, Tommy, “Delicious Acrimony; The Paintings of Linda King” Fragments Catalog, Cypress College Exhibition, 2006 |
| Frank, Peter, “Flow” Exhibition Catalog, Riverside Art Museum, 2005 |
| Littlefield, Kinney, “Variations on White; Rich at the Surface,” Los Angeles Times, December 2000 |
| Cooper, Jacqueline, “A Report from the Trenches,” New Art Examiner, February 2000 |
| Brown, Betty Ann, “Paradise Lost,” Art Scene, October 1998 |
| Art Week Cover, Vol. 28 #4, April 1997 |
| “The Elements: Water Subject, Substance, Symbol & Site,” Art Week, April 1997 |
| Pagel, David, Review, L.A. Times, April 1997 |
| Frank, Peter, Pick of the Week, “Memoir”s, LA Weekly, 1995 |
| King, Linda, “Why is There More Than One?,” CAA Abstract, 1992 |
| The Midwest Art Alliance Publication, 1992 |
| James, Lois, “Linda King: An Artist at AGCC,” The Gate, Spring 1992 |
| Gragg, Randy, “Butters Exhibits Portland’s Hippest Art,” The Oregonian, January 1991 |
| Cassidy, Victor, “New Work for a New Decade,” Gallery Vienna News, 1-2, January 1990 |
| “Color,” Canon Color Laser Copier Book, Gallery 400, UIC School of Art and Design, 1989 |
| Yood, James, “Exhibition 12,” UIC Studio Art Faculty Exhibition Catalog, 1989 |
| “Transcult, Reverse Angle,”Transcultural Exchange Chicago/Vienna, A.C.M. (Another Chicago Magazine), 1989 |
| “The Germans Are Coming,” Chicago Magazine, May and June 1989 |
| King, Linda, “Search for Content,” Chicago/Art/Write, Spring 1988 |
| McDougall, Littell, English Grammar & Composition, Three Works Reproduced, 1988 |
| Thorson, Alice & Yood, James, “Who Follows the Hairy Who?,” New Art Examiner, March 1985 |
| Segard, Michael, “Post-Industrial Paint,” New Art Examiner, November 1984 |
| Cameron, Dan, “A New Generation of Chicago Artists,” Artnews, October 1984 |
| Lyons, Christopher, “Post-Industrial Paint,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 1984 |
| Taylor, Sue, “In Search of Primal Meanings: Primitivism & Ritual in Recent Chicago Art,” New Art Examiner, May 1984 |
| Ferrulli, Helen, “Painting & Sculpture Today, 1984,” Catalog Essay for Indianapolis Museum |
| Bonesteel, Michael, “Art Facts: Three Expressions of Neo-Expressionism,” Reader, 1982 |
| Rebora, Joyce, “Reviews,” New Art Examiner, December 1982 |
Awards
| 1990 | CAP Grant Chicago, IL |
| 1985 | Municipal Art League Prize, “81st Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition” |
| 1984 | Illinois Arts Council Technical Assistance Grant |
| WARM Invitational Grant | |
| Illinois Arts Council Exhibition Grant | |
| 1982 | Honorable Mention, Illinois State Professional Exhibition |
| 1981 | Honorable Mention, Illinois State Professional Exhibitio |
| Purchase Award, “31st Annual Art Exhibition” | |
| Best Drawing, “23rd Annual Chautauqua National” | |
| 1980 | Best of Show, “32nd Annual Iowa Exhibition" |
| Faculty Development Grant, Sangamon State University | |
| 1979-80 | Ford Foundation Scholarships and/or Teaching Assistantships |
| 1975-76 | Ford Foundation Scholarships and/or Teaching Assistantships |
| 1971-73 | Teaching Assistantships |
Selected Public Collections
| Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL |
| Quincy Art Club, Quincy, IL |
| State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL |
| University of Minnesota, Morris, MN |
| University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, WI |
| University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
Panel Member/Lecturer
| 2007 | “Business of Art,” Panelist, Long Beach Arts Council, CA |
| 1992 | “Multiples: Why Are There More Than One?,” C.A.A. Annual Conference, Chicago, IL |
| Paper presented at the Museu de Gravura de Curitiba, Brazil | |
| Artist Lecture, Graduate Painting Seminar California State University, Long Beach, CA | |
| 1991 | Exhibition Lecture, Gallery 299, Portland State University |
| Public Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR | |
| 1990 | New Work for a New Decade,” Gallery Vienna Annex, Chicago, IL |
| 1989 | Man & His Environment,” Artist Lecture, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |