Linn Meyers American, b. 1968
Linn Meyers has created rhythmic, site-specific compositions for the past three decades, transforming room-sized spaces through the invocation of her body and its coordinated gestures. In her practice, Meyers engages in the systematic marking of a grid, threatening its uniformed and deductive stature in her insertions of human touch. Consecutive strokes of acrylic ink are individualized to emphasize the moments leading to their production, a testament to Meyer’s thoughtful craft: her careful aesthetic movements transcend beyond the surface of the canvas through brief, transient retrospections. Grounded in their spatiotemporality, her constructions physically and psychologically overtake the entirety of a space, obscuring their material qualities. Meyer’s large-scale works culminate as an intimate reflection on the oftentimes invisible labor of artistry, shaping into memorial records of her visual decision-making.
Linn Meyers (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) began her academic career by receiving her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, NY. After enrolling at California College of the Arts, she obtained her MFA in 1993. Meyers has exhibited throughout the United States in numerous solo and group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., among others.
Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous private and public institutions, including The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Meyers is the recipient of several awards and grants, including nine D.C. Commision on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships (2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023), a Pollock-Krasner Award (2001), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2009). She currently splits her time between Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, CA.
