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Biography - Linda Karshan

Linda Karshan

1947born Minneapolis (Minnesota/US)
lives and works in London and Connecticut (US)

1965-66Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York
1967Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Minnesota/US)
1967-1968Sorbonne, Paris
1970Slade School, London
1983Master’s degree in Art and Psychology at Antioch University, London

solo exhibtions (selection)


2022The Universe on paper, Domus Comeliana, Pisa (IT)
2020Marks and moves, in Print, Redfern Gallery, London (UK)
2018Studiolo View, San Giorgio Maggiore Abbey, Venice (IT)
Kaltnadelradierungen und Farbholzchnitte, Galerie Biedermann, Munich(DE)
2017Linda Karshan-Frauke Schlitz, ART 3 Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Studio View: Prints and Drawings 1983 – 2017, Redfern Gallery, London (UK)
Marks & Traces, Reform Club Exhibition, London (UK)
2016Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
Footfalls and drawings, galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
2015SOUNDINGS, Satellite Berlin
Footfalls, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
Signs of Men, ART3 Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Signs of Men, Redfern Gallery, London(UK)
2014New Forms, galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
2013lines crossed: inner spaces, Waterhouse & Dodd, New York (US)
Drawings, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Linda Karshan, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (DE)
2012Desire Paths, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin
Light Points/Zero Gravitation, galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
Light-Points, The Redfern Gallery, London
Measure for Measure, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
2010mark to mark, drawings 1995-2010, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Movements and their images, Rhode Contemporaries, Copenhagen
Movements and their images, 1992-2010, The Redfern Gallery, London
IT´S A GREEK THING, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (NL)
IT´S A GREEK THING, Galerie Biedermann, Munich (DE)
IT´S A GREEK THING, Cain Schulte Gallery, Berlin
2008Early drawings, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
2007Two clear days, Redfern Galery, London
2006galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
Alles Zeichnung, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
2005august form 2005, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
2004Riflemaker Gallery, London
The Redfern Gallery, London
2003galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
august form 2002, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge (GB)
2002The Redfern Gallery, London
Institut Valencià d´Art Modern, IVAM, Valencia (ES)
Sir John Soane´s Museum, London
2001Dee-Glasoe Gallery, New York
2000Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1999galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
1998The Redfern Gallery, London
1997Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
1996The Redfern Gallery, London
1995Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis (US)
1994galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
1993Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis (US)
1991galerie biedermann, Munich (DE)
1984/85/86ASB Gallery, London

group exhibitions (selection)

202470 plus, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
20202000-2020, 20 Years Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Unquiet Moments, The Courtauld Institute, London (UK)
The Variety of Line II, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
”american spirit“, Galerie Biedermann, Munich (DE)
2019Biblioteca per L’Aquila (IT)
all the best, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (DE)
Galerie Biedermann, Munich (DE)
2018Sexy and cool, Kunsthalle Tübingen (DE)
2017Die Linie ist Gedanke, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen (DE)
Picturing Math, TheMET New York
2016Zeichnungsräume II, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg (DE)
Blickwechsel, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden (DE)
2014Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (NL)
Breugel to Freud, Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauls Gallery London
Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen
Papierarbeiten, von Bartha Collection, Basel (CH)
2013Shape the scape, Kit Schulte Contemporary, Berlin
System und Sinnlichkeit, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
2012Aus Passion, Sammlung Hanck, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE)
Lines Crossed, THE COURTAULD Institue of Art, London
2011Drawing now Staphorst, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (NL)
20102000-2010, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Wünsche und Erwerbungen, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
Schnittstelle Druck, HGB Leipzig (DE)
MODERN TIMES, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (GB)
MODERN TIMES, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sussex (GB)
2009Die Gegenwart der Linie, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE)
2008gegenstandslos, gkg Bonn (DE)
Drawing as Process, Museum Folkwang Essen (DE)
3. Biennale der Zeichnung, Eislingen (DE)
2007on paper, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
on paper, Gallery N. von Bartha, London
Alumni Invitational 2, The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, New York
2006mehrfach, Editionen und Multiples, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
Alles Zeichnung, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
2005minimal means, Kunstverein Eislingen (DE)
De Balthus a Zeller, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid
2004Innen - Aussen, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne (DE)
2001Unexpected Encounters, Galleria Prisma, Bolzano (IT)
2000Underlying Perfection, Gallery Fine, London
1999White Out, Fine Gallery, London
1997The Redfern Gallery, London
Contemporary British Drawings, Edward Tyler-Nahem Fine Art, New York
Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)
1995The Redfern Gallery, London
1990Runkel-Hue-Williams Gallery, London
1988The Legacy of Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey (GB)
1986Drawings, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1985New Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York

works in private/public collections (selection)

US
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

UK
Arts Council Collection, London
The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The British Library, London
The British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough
Sir John Soane's Museum, London

Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Sammlung Hanck, museum kunstpalast, Düesseldorf
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Spain
Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia

France
La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris

 
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