LINDA GRIGGS
linda@lindagriggs.com
GRIGGS CURATORIAL
Ongoing
E32, an Art Projection, Discussion, Networking series and
The E32 Crit: the Speed Dating of Studio Visits
Pending
Conscience Art Fair - each booth dedicated to a charity
Colored Stories: Depictions of American Discrimination in Narrative Art
2021
I’M NOT DONE PLAYING WITH THAT: ARTISTS WHO REFUSE TO PUT AWAY THEIR TOYS
Peter Drake, Phil Buehler, Sally Curcio, Amy Hill, D. Dominick Lomabardi & others. Art Toy Collectibles by Trenton Doyle Hancock and Takeshi Murakami. Equity, NYC
CURRENT | UNDERCURRENT Pilar Agoyo, Roberta Atabaigi, WHAF, Patricia Fabricant, David B. Frye, Dolores Gull, Allen Hansen, Frederick Hayes, Lisa Levy, Pamela Longobardi, Stephen Mallon, Christina Marsh, Steve Mumford, Sharilyn Neidhardt, Katarra Peterson, Duke Riley, Kathleen Vance. Curators Talk with Savona Bailey-McClain, West Harlem Art Fund. Artscope Review, Catalog.UMASS Amherst, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
2019
VORACIOUS EYE curated by Suzanne Varni and Linda Griggs. Susanna Coffey, Tracy Miller, Moses Ros-Suarez, Tom Bogaert and others. Abrazo Gallery, NYC
THE AWAKENING - Brian Andrew Whitely, video and performance installation. Co-curator.Studio 406, NYC
2018
ARTISTS FOR PUERTO RICO concept & organizer. Priska Juschka, installation design and auctioneer. 97 artists raised $5432 for Water Mission's solar-paneled water purification systems. LES Gallery, NYC
2017
SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE MONEY? THE MONETIZED NEGRO AND THE POLTERGEIST OF MY FAMILY'S STORY WITHIN AMERICAN HISTORY David B. Frye, solo. Christopher Stout and Linda Griggs, curators. ADO Gallery, NYC
2016
CHEWING TAR LICHTUNDFIRE , Lichtundfire, NYC
CHEWING TAR HAMPDEN Hampden Gallery - Project Space, UMASS Amherst, MA
2015
ALL | TOGETHER | DIFFERENT: A Survey of Working Artists on the Lower East Side Over 100 artists and organizations including Kiki Smith, Roger Welch, Richard Hambleton, Kim Keever, Kembra Pfahler, Rick Prol, Jim Radakovich, Anton Van Dalen, Marc Kehoe, David Sandlin, Judith Simonian, and Susannah Coffey. Linda Griggs, curator. Yona Verwer, advisor. Manny Cantor Center, NYC
2014
UNDER THE VIADUCT Guest curator. Curated by Savona Bailey McCain. West Harlem Arts Fund, NYC
CUTLOG ART FAIR - THE CLEMENTE booth, NYC
E32 at the ART FAIR, NYC
2013
MAPPING HEAVEN Babette Allina, Sally Curcio, Allen Hansen, Dennis Hlynsky, Thomas Lyon Mills, Igor Molochevski, Lindsey Nobel, Anne LaPrade Seuthe, Patricia Smith & Larry Walczak. Front Room Gallery, NYC
BRIMMING ON THE EDGE Curated by Savona Bailey-McClain and Lisa Banner. Linda Griggs, curatorial assistant. West Harlem Arts Fund, NYC
2012
WORTH TELLING Eric Sanner and Linda Griggs, curators. Thirty-six writers and artists including Luc Sante, Jose Antonio Vargas, Duke Riley, Sarah Schmerler and Nicole Wittenberg. The Abrazo, NYC
2011
LIKE BLUEPRINTS: MAKE NO SMALL PLANS Abrazo Interno Gallery, NYC
FIND & COMBINE - Elisabeth Condon, Judith Simonian, Amy Hill, Carla Gannis. Abrazo, NYC
2010
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT: Art Made of or About Candy, Cakes, and Sugar - Richard Baker, Tom Bogaert, Ya Ya Chou, Sally Curcio, Lori Ellison, Emily Eveleth, Julia Jacquette, T. Charnan Lewis, Christina Marsh, Tracy Miller, Mary Schiliro, Rebecca Siemering, Lynn Talbot, Mary Jo Vath, Jessica Westbook, Chris Wright. Catalog. Essay by Wesley Gibson. Hampden Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE - Steve Mumford, Gregory Crane, Kathryne Lynch, Chris McCaw, Elizabeth Kiethline, Barbara Friedman, Davide Cantoni, Rupert Nesbitt, Lawrence Swan. Catalog. Essay by Wesley Gibson. Hampden Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA
1995
Scope Art Gallery, founder. Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Art by Sarah Schmerler
Colored Stories: Depictions of Race in Narrative Art - Kerry James Marshall, Carrie Mae Weems, Dottie Attie, Bo Bartlett, James Esber and others. Mediabridge.com/nyc/scope NYC
Rococo Cartoon - including Amy Sillman, Drew Lowenstein. Scope Art Gallery. Mediabridge.com/nyc/scope NYC
Beauty/Death - Dottie Attie, Greg Stone and others. Mediabridge.com/nyc/scope NYC
1992
Contemporary Icons: From the Sublime to the Fetishistic Assisted/collaborated with Susan Edwards, curator for the Hunter College Leubsdorf Gallery exhibition, NYC
1984
Real, Small Art Hunter Gallery display case, Hunter College, NYC
You Are a Human Animal Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, NYC
MFA Hunter College
BFA Virginia Commonwealth University