Linda Carmella Sibio (b. 1953) is an American performance artist and painter.[1] She is also an advocate for mentally disabled artists and individuals and has publicly identified as a "schizophrenic artist" since 1991.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] She was a student of performance artist Rachel Rosenthal.[5]
She married Blake Matthew Brousseau and the couple worked on films together, including "St. Pity". They had three children.[6] She lives in Desert Hot Springs, California.[7]
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."[8]
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.[9]
She ran two performance troupes, Substation Minus Zero and Operation Hammer which was a group of "mentally disabled artists with a history of homelessness."[10] 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."[11][12][13]
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