Linda Besemer

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Linda Besemer
Born1957 (age 67–68)
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Education Indiana University Bloomington (BFA), Tyler School of Art (MFA)
OccupationsPainter, video artist, educator
Known forAbstract painting
Awards Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2011), Guggenheim Fellowship (2022)

Linda Besemer (born 1957) is an American painter, video artist, and educator. She is known for her abstract painting, and was a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles. [1] [2]

Life and career

Linda Besemer was born in 1957, in South Bend, Indiana. [3] She attended Indiana University Bloomington (BFA 1981), and Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University (MFA 1983). [3]

Besemer was the James Irvine Distinguished Professor of the Arts at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1987 until 2009. [4] [5] Additionally she taught coursework in gender theory in the women's studies and gender studies departments. [5]

She is known for her large scale abstract paintings, many of which have sculptural properties. [6] [7] Besemer is a recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship (2011), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the Chuck Close Rome Prize in painting from the American Academy in Rome, and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2022). [5] In 2025, she was elected as an academic member of the National Academy in New York City. [5]

Besemer's artwork can be found in museum collections including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [8] the Whitney Museum of American Art, [9] the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, [10] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [11] and the Tucson Museum of Art. [12]

References

  1. ↑ Iannaccone, Carmine (March 3, 2000). "Linda Besemer". Frieze . No. 51. ISSN   0962-0672 . Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  2. ↑ Osberg, Annabel (September 1, 2022). "Linda Besemer". Artforum . Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Linda Besemer: Sine Language". Nevada Museum of Art . February 2, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  4. ↑ "One for the Ages: Professor Linda Besemer". oxy.edu. June 21, 2023. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Linda Besemer, NA 2025". National Academy of Design. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  6. ↑ Frank, Peter (March 21, 1996). "Art Picks of the Week". LA Weekly . p. 127. Retrieved December 29, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "The Word: Once again it's 'plastics,' this time in the gallery". Winston-Salem Journal . September 14, 2003. p. 67. Retrieved December 29, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Besemer, Linda". SFMOMA. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Linda Besemer, 1957". Whitney Museum of American Art.
  10. ↑ "Linda Besemer". Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Linda Besemer". LACMA Collections. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
  12. ↑ Regan, Margaret (May 28, 2015). ""Livin' Large"". Tucson Weekly . Retrieved December 29, 2025.
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