Linda Blackburn, born in 1941 in Baltimore Maryland, has lived and worked as an artist in Fort Worth since 1966. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Texas at Austin (1962) and a MA in painting from the University of California at Berkeley (1965). She received a National Endowment for the Art grant in painting (1990) and a Mid American/National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting (1988). Her work is in public and private collections including the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, the Amarillo Art Center Museum, Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC., Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, The Crescent Collection, Dallas and DFW Airport.
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b. 1941, Baltimore MD
Lives and works in Fort Worth, TX
Education
MA, University of California, Berkeley
BFA, University of Texas, Austin
Awards
1990 National Endowment for the Arts (painting)
1988 Mid America/National Endowment for the Arts (painting)
Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2017 Ed and Linda and Mark's Adventures at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tuesday Evenings
Lecture Series with video by Ed and Linda Blackburn and Mark Thistlethwaite, Fort Worth, TX
Voices on Art: A conversation between Linda and Ed Blackburn and Mark Thistlethwaite at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, an Art This Week Production, YouTube, filmed by Richard Serrano
Linda Blackburn Ceramics, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
2008 The Thing From Another World, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
2007 The Lonesome Utrillo, video screened at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Ed and Linda Blackburn, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX
2005 DFW Airport, commissioned stained glass window
2001 The Adventures of Eddie Leon, 'The Missing Masterpieces', University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV (catalogue by Dave Hickey)
2000 Downtown Fort Worth Mural, TX
As It Were, Four Walls Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
1998 The Adventures of Eddie Leon, Downtown Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Bible Painting and "B" Landscapes, The Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
1997 "B" Landscapes, James Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 Downtown Fort Worth Mural, TX
1995 Eddie Leon, mural, 8.0 Club, Fort Worth, TX
1996 Ed and Linda Blackburn, Texas State Governor's Office, Austin, TX
1991 Linda Blackburn: Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Introductions, James Gallery, Houston, TX
Linda Blackburn: New Work, Peregrine Gallery at the Crescent Center, Dallas, TX
1989 Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
1988 Recent Work, Linda Blackburn: Paintings, Prints, Ceramics, Peregrine Gallery at the Crescent
Center, Dallas, TX
1985 Linda Blackburn: Recent Paintings, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1983 Linda Blackburn: Paintings and Works on Paper, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981 University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Peregrine Press: A Texas Legacy, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
Party, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Printmaking - Flatbed Press and Peregrine Press, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Swelter, Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2014 Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Houston, TX
2013 Artscenter 10 Invitational, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Like, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
2012 Annual Art Gala, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Artpocalypse, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2011 Honky Tonk, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2010 Preservation is the Art of the City, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Artists Against Aids, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2009 Artists Against Aids, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Preservation is the Art of the City, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2008 Then and Now, Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX
Worthwhile, Artspace III, Fort Worth, TX
Friends of EASl, Artspace III, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Historical Society, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Artists Against Aids, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2007 Artists Against Aids, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Historical Society, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2006 An Auction of Texas Art, David Dike Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 Figuring In, Texas Art, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
DFW Airport Artists, Campbell Gallery and Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2004 Texas Paint: More True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Shine, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Beyond Convention, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2002 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Auction/Exhibition
Home Sweet Home, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
5x7, Texas Fine Arts, Austin, TX
2000 Artists in Monoprint, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX
1999 Red, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
1998 Vitreography, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Revelation, Dallas Visual Center, Dallas, TX
1997 Odd Realities, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Women in Art: 12 Texas Women, The Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
Reunion, James Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 First Texas Annual, The Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
Limited Engagement and Availability, Performance, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
1995 Print Masters, Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Made in Texas, Parchman-Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1992 Printmaking in Texas: The 80's, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Laguna Gloria Museum,
Austin, TX (catalogue)
Peregrine Prints, Peregrine Press, Dallas, TX
1991 Creative Partners, Blaffer Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Texas Dialogues, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1990 Monoprints, James Gallery, Houston, TX
1989 Family Icons, Peregrine Press, Dallas, TX
It's About Time, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX
Texas Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Mid-American Biennial, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
1988 Glass Prints, Municipal Art Collections, Coburg, West Germany
Summertime Blues, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1987 Luminous Expressions, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (catalogue)
1986 Texas Time Machine, Cullen Center, Houston, TX (catalogue)
Animation/Imagination, Frito Lay Inc., Dallas, TX
The Mask Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
1985 Women of the American West, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (catalogue)
Recent Work, Peregrine Press Gallery, Dallas, TX
Ed Blackburn, Linda Blackburn, Jim Woodson, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
Drawings Coast to Coast, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX
The State of Style, Bloomingdales and Texas Homes Magazine, Dallas, TX
Comic Relief, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984 Four Texas Painters, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Texas On My Mind, Art Train toured Texas cities
Work Images, San Antonio Art Institute, TX
Singular Points of View, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1983 New Figurative Drawing, San Antonio Art Institute, TX
1982 Texas On Paper, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston: University of Colorado, Boulder, Co:
Abilene Christian College, Abilene, TX; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ; Amarillo Art Center Museum, Amarillo, TX; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (American Curators Association) Artists Exchange Exhibition, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas and Watson De Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX
1981 Texas Crafts: New Expressions, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
New Options in Sculpture, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Public Collections
Amarillo Art Center Museum, Amarillo, TX
American Airlines, Dallas, TX
Arco Oil, Dallas, TX
Bank of America, Houston, TX
Bell and Murphy, Houston, TX
The Crescent Collection, Dallas, TX
Eight/0 Corporation, Dallas, TX
Energy Development Corporation, Houston, TX
Fidelity Corporation, Dallas, TX
Frito Lay Corporation, Dallas, TX
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, TX
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
Southwestern Bell, Dallas, TX
Strake Jesuit Art Museum, Houston, TX
USAA Insurance, San Antonio, TX
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Zale Corporation, Dallas, TX and Chicago, IL
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