Linn Meyers

Place: Washington

Born: 1968

Biography:

Linn Meyers is an American, Washington, D.C.–based artist. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. She is known for her hand-drawn lines and tracings for site-specific installations. Meyers was born in Washington, D.C., where she lived until she was 17, at which time she moved to Paris, France. In 1986 she moved back to the U.S. to attend The Cooper Union in New York. Meyers uses repetitive applications of line and color to draw on a variety of surfaces including paper, vellum, mylar, and gallery walls. She has exhibited in venues that include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Meyers has received numerous awards, including a Pollock Krasner Award, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, A Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship. She has been making large, site-specific wall drawings in museums and galleries since 2000. These projects require a great deal of endurance and involve drawing in the space for several weeks at a time. Meyers has also completed several permanent public art commissions, including a 2016 commission for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Meyers received a BA from The Cooper Union in 1991 and an MFA from California College of the Arts in 1995. She currently lives and works in Washington, DC.