Linda Geary

Linda Geary (born 1960) is an American visual artist and educator. She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals. Geary is chair of the painting department and a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives in Oakland, California. She received two B.A. degrees in 1982 from the University of San Diego, in fine arts and English; and received a M.F.A. degree in 1986 from the University of Delaware, in painting. She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals, which have their roots in collage. In 2021, Geary installed a mosaic mural titled "River" in the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport. a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2021; and the Elizabeth Foundation grant in 1998.

Geary is a professor of painting, and the chair of the painting department at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Linda Geary: New Work (2000), Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California Linda Geary: New Drawings and Paintings (2007), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

Group exhibitions

Line as Element: Paintings by Linda Geary, Doug Glovaski, and Seiji Kunishima (1995), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters (1996), Mills College (now Mills College at Northeastern University), Oakland, California The Possible (2014), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California