LINDA GRIGGS

Linda Griggs was born in Oklahoma and spent summers in South Carolina, areas rich in storytelling. Unsurprisingly, her work incorporates narrative and story in the manner similar to artists she admires such as Faith Ringgold, Dottie Attie, Roger Welch and David Wojnarowicz. Griggs often draws you in with traditional representational painting of familiar images and then contrasts that with darkly humorous text. She works in series, intensively researching topics that engage her such as the effects of early porn viewing and funeral mishaps. Past bodies of work include The First Time Is Not Like Porn, What to Do with the Body, Narrative Still Life and Family Outing. Her current focus is Comfort and Loss.

Her work has been included in numerous museum, gallery and university exhibitions. She has had solo projects at ADO and Carolyn J Roy Galleries in NYC and Hampden Gallery, UMass Amherst and has exhibited at the Iwami Art Museum in Japan, the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage, the Wustum Museum, ABC No Rio, PS122, The Clemente, Sideshow and the New York Public Library. Past fellowships include MacDowell and Millay Colonies and the LES Rotating Studio Program. Her work is included in several public and private collections notably JP Morgan Chase, Eileen Schwab, Therese Lichtenstein, Alix Sloan, Rich Timperio, Paul Bridgewater among others.
Griggs is the founder of E32, an art projection-crit-party and as an artist-curator has curated or assisted on 22 exhibitions and two art fair booths.
Her exhibitions have been reviewed and her own work published in PBS Arts Watch, ARTslant Worldwide, Bedford + Bowery, IdeaSmyth, DART, VisualArts Daily, Cover, Live Mag, WG Williamsburg Greenpoint, The Bark, Hamden Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, Artscope Magazine, The Milwaukee Journal and HX.

Learn more about Linda at her website.