About the artist

Linda Geary is a California-based artist, deeply rooted in her communities in the Bay Area as well as in the legacy of abstraction in painting. She earned a double major in Studio Art and English from the University of San Diego, and an MFA from the University of Delaware. Since then she has dedicated herself to an approach that embraces boundary-pushing and perpetual reinvention. Her work explores the expressive formal qualities of shape, color, and distortion, through a wide range of painting media– including collage, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, flashe, and oil– resulting in deeply personal improvisations reflected in her bold and unconventional works.

She received the Alma B. Shapiro residency award at Yaddo in 2017, two Pollock-Krasner awards, most recently in 2021, and the Kent Fellowship at MacDowell in 2022. She founded and taught the CCA New York Studio class in Brooklyn (2008-2018), and has been teaching at Anderson Ranch since 2016. Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, Art Forum, Art Practical, KQED, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Squarecylinder. Other residencies include Kriti, in Varanasi, India, Art Omi, and Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India. Her public mosaic River, 2021, is permanently installed at SFO in the International terminal. She is a Professor and Painting and Graduate Fine Arts faculty at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives and works in Oakland.