Judith Linhares

Judith Linhares (born 1940) is an American visual artist, who is particularly well known for her figurative paintings. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Judith Linhares was born in 1940 in Pasadena, California. In 1964 she attained her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree from the California College of the Arts. In 1970 she attained a Masters of Arts from the same institution.

Linhares works in a variety of media, including sculpture and print, but she is perhaps best known for her brightly-colored, figurative paintings. Her paintings often reference feminism, gender, mythology, and narrative. In 1978 Linhares was included in the group exhibition Bad Painting, curated by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum in New York. The exhibition included thirteen other artists, including William Wegman (photographer) and Joan Brown. The exhibition was not meant to categorize the works as literally bad, but rather was a statement on their disregard for historical attributes of what made a "good" painting. In 1980, Linhares permanently moved to New York with her partner, the poet Stephen Spretnjak. She has cited the artists Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch and James Ensor as having an influence on her work.

In 1997 Linhares was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2008 Linhares received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her work in the arts. In 2012 the artist also received a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant for Painting.

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