b. Worcester, Massachusetts
Linda M. Ford employs performance, video and object making in her practice to explore the histories of both the personal and the social body, and the ways in which these bodies are subsumed into specific economies. These concerns are located within an investigation of the nature of the contemporary art world and in the exchange value of art, labour, and bodies. Her working class background which exposed her to labour and class issues, her own work as a union shop steward for the Exotic Dancers Union and the privilege of having been exposed to a secondary education, fuel these interests.
She received her MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute (2002) and was the recipient of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship and Residency (2002). Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances include v1b3 Video Project, Traveling Screenings, Orange, California & London, UK (2006); Elsewhere-Anderswo, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany (2006); Stranger Than Fiction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA (2006); Summer Sonnen Fest, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany (2005); 6th Annual 12 to 12 Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, NY (2004); and Espacios a la Experimentacion II, Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica (2003).
Linda M. Ford
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