EDUCATION
Skowhegan School of Art & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2002
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, Sculpture, San Francisco, CA, 2002
Long Island University, Master Workshop in Art, Southampton, NY, 1989
Boston College, BA Fine Arts, Chestnut Hill, MA, Summa Cum Laude, 1989
The Museum of Fine Arts School, Additional Coursework, Boston, MA, 1988
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS
2007
The Professionals, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2006
HAUNTED, Disjecta, Portland, OR
TERROR?, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
v1b3 Video Project, Traveling Screenings, Orange, California & London, UK
Stranger Than Fiction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Elsewhere-Anderswo, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus Saarbrucken, Germany
TRUTH AND LIES, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Clothing As Art, Art As Clothing, The Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Summer Sonnen Fest, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
Form/Reform, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Consum(e)ate, A Public Intervention, Local Porn Shops, San Francisco, CA
2004
Window Shopping, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA
A Night of Video, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Spoonful of Sugar, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
An Accumulation of Convention: En Masse, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Viva (a video show), Gallery at the Café de Asis, Panama City, Panama
Annual 12 to 12 Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, NY
Test Tube: FreezerBurn, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Viva (a Video Show), The Table, Philadelphia, PA
Kabaret, A Night of Performance, The Make-Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Espacios a la Experimentacion II, Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Art and
Design, San Jose, Costa Rica
Cold Cuts, (private home), Berkeley, CA
Dress Me Up, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Lodged In: Performance, Video, Sound, Big Oaks Lodge/Cal Arts, Saugus, CA
2002
Performative Video, The Remote Lounge, New York, NY
The L7 Project: Public Performances in the Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Inside/Outside, a Public Video Art Program, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Let It Breed, BioArts Gallery, Sausalito, CA
You have five minutes to get out, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The F-Word Project, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
Think Again, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sexuality and Consumption, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fuse, IPW Gallery, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
Eccentric Abstractions, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, New York, NY, 2002
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show Honorable Mention, San Francisco, CA, 2002
The Richard and Marianne Martin Award for the Arts, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1989
The Alison Macomber Scholarship, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1989
PUBLICATIONS
The Portland Mercury, September 21, v.7, no.17
‘Linda M. Ford and Pam Martin discuss "Alpha BRAVO! Charlie"’.
The Boston Globe: Living Arts, 7/16/04. “An Accumulation Of
Convention: En Masse”.
ArtNet.com, Magazine Reviews, 10/7/04. “San Francisco Days”.
The Tablet, 5/15/03, page 29. “Dress Me Up”.
Seattle Weekly, 4/30/03, page 76. “Spotlight”.
San Francisco Chronicle: Datebook, 12/14/02. Cover Page. Article and Photo.
“Getting Down to the Business of Street Theatre”.
San Francisco Art Institute Magazine, Summer 2002, page 5. Photo.
“Highlights”.
TEACHING/LECTURE EXPERIENCE
Pre-College Program Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2006
Designed and implemented a summer intensive video art class curriculum for teens, which provided and encouraged acquisition of technical skills in final cut pro and dvd pro, as well as conceptual strategies.
Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA 9/05
ACE Program Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 9/03-12/03
Designed and implemented 12-week curriculum for adult beginning sculpture course, which encouraged acquisition of sculptural technical skills and conceptual strategies. Provided individual and group critiques.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Diego Rivera Juror, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2004
Served on an alumni jury which reviewed submissions for the student gallery
Curatorial Committee Assistant, Southern Exposure Gallery
San Francisco, CA, 2003-2005
Attended all curatorial meetings to discuss programming issues and acted as liaison between the committee and prospective artists. Assisted committee with monthly artist proposal reviews, including keeping minutes of each meeting, communicating with artists by telephone as well as preparing and sending acceptance/rejection letters. Maintained slide/image bank and returned artist materials when appropriate.
Linda M. Ford
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