Linda Carmella Sibio

Linda Carmella Sibio (born 1953) is an American performance artist and painter. She is also an advocate for mentally disabled artists and individuals and has publicly identified as a "schizophrenic artist" since 1991.

Personal life and education Linda Carmella Sibio was born in West Virginia in 1953. After her father died, she was raised in an orphanage while her mother was living in a state asylum. By her account, she started drawing at age 11 because she could not sleep. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and manic-depression while she was attending Ohio State University, where she earned her BFA in painting in 1975. She was a student of performance artist Rachel Rosenthal.

She married Blake Matthew Brousseau and the couple worked on films together, including "St. Pity". They had three children. She lives in Desert Hot Springs, California.

Career In 1990, as part of the Women's Work exhibition at Highways in Santa Monica, Sibio was quoted as saying "There are a lot of women artists but they are expected to work three times as hard before they get any attention... A lot of focus is being given to minority artists, but in the art world women are still minorities."

Her 1991 piece West Virginia schizophrenic blues was a three-and-a-half hour performance telling the story of Sibio's mother and her institutionalization.

She ran two performance troupes, Substation Minus Zero and Operation Hammer which was a group of "mentally disabled artists with a history of homelessness." In 2000, together with Judy Bradford and Adriene Jenik, Sibio formed and directed Cracked Eggs, an interdisciplinary troupe dedicated to "the furthering of art from the mentally disabled."

Performer 1989: Car pool, Highways, Santa Monica, California 1989: Blow out, Highways, Santa Monica, California 1990: Women's work, Cadman Plaza, New York 1990: Azalea trash LA Fringe Theater, Los Angeles 1991: West Virginia schizophrenic blues, Cadman Plaza, New York 1992: Energy and light and their relationship to suicide, McCadden Place, Hollywood 1993: Suicidal particles, Peanuts, Santa Monica 1994: Hallelujah! I'm dead, Rachel Rosenthal Studio, Los Angeles 1994: One-woman show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2003: One-woman show, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York 2015: Melody of chaos Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles 2022: Wall Street guillotine

Director 1992: To err in the key of z, Young Moguls, Hollywood, with Operation Hammer. Written by Sibio. 2004: The prophet of doom in the banana republic Hi-Desert Playhouse, California

Visual arts 2004: One-woman show, The Joshua Tree Gallery, California 2005: The insanity principle Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles 2008: Creativity transcends: Art from the pages of Kaleidoscope Magazine Akron Art Museum, Ohio 2018: Double indemnity Colliding Worlds Fine Art Gallery, California