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LINDA BOND www.lindabondart.com
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
One Person Exhibitions
2021-22 Errors and Omissions, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA (catalog)
2021-24 Deadly Weapons, site specific commissioned installation, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia PA
2021 Linda Bond Justice Project, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 After Effects: Beyond the Shadow of War, Human Rights Institute Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
2015 Linda Bond Reconnaissance, Kniznick Gallery, WSRC Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (catalog)
2014 Shadow War, McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH (catalog)
2013 Inventory, Deis Impact 2013, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Linda Bond: Inventory, 2013, Installation Space, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA
2011 A Count, Available Potential Enterprises, LTD, Northampton, MA
Collateral Damage, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, (catalog)
2004 The Drawing Project presents Linda Bond, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Linda Bond Paintings, Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
2001 On the Wall: Linda Bond, Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
1999 A Certain Moment, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Myth and Memory, Nada/Mason Gallery, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA
1994 Mount Auburn Series, Episcopal Divinity School, Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA
1993 Arlington Artist, Linda Bond, Jefferson Cutter Gallery, Arlington, MA
1992 The Painter’s Process, Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Arlington, MA
1992 Assembly of Faith, Newton Free Library Gallery, Newton, MA
1990 Paintings & Drawings, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA
1990 Mezzogiorno: Paintings Drawings 1978-1990, University of Mass Medical Center, Worcester, MA
1979 Fellowship Exhibition, Fine Arts Work Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1979 Watercolors Drawings, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
1976 Linda Bond, Paintings, Gallery One Twelve, Northampton, MA
1975 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2023 Peace, Love, and Understanding, Danang Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam
2020 Making A way, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend ,IN (traveling)2019 We the People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2018 Salvage Art Institute: No Longer Art, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico Connections: Fine Arts Work Center Visual Fellows of Cape Cod, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016 UP IN ARMS: Taking Stock of Guns, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, Curated by Mara Williams
2015 NNE Open, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, Richard Klein of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum juror
2010 America Remixed, MFA Boston, digital projection exhibition for opening of the Art of the Americas wing
Drawing Itself, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, Curated by Mara Williams & Craig Stockwell
2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, semifinalist, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2008 Prints from the Collection and Contemporary Drawings, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA,
2006 New England/New Talent, 8th Biennial Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, catalog
2002 A Nation Mourns & Artists Respond, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA,
Curator of Collections, Curated by Pamela Russell, digital catalog
Making a Mark: Artists from the Boston Drawing Project, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA,
2000 National Competition Finalists, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1999 Beyond Venus: Women Imagine Beauty, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA (invitational)
1999 Small Works, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA (award)
1997 A Day for Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1997
1979 Annual Juried Exhibition, G. Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA
1979 Work Center Fellows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
1978 Regional Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1977 National Juried Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1976 Annual Juried Exhibition, G. Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA
1975 Regional Juried Exhibition of MFA Candidates, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
2022 Protest Signs, CAB Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington2021 Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA
2020 Making A way, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State University, Salem MA2018 Peace & Justice, Delaware State University, Dover, DE
2018 Fear, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA Stillness/Transformation, Farber Library, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
2015 Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists, Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago 2013
2013 Human Rights Exhibition, South Texas College, McAllen, TX (traveling)
2013 Wheaton Biennial: Drawing Out of Bounds, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute, Columbia University, NY, NY
2010 Faculty Invitational, Gutman Library Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2009 Pin His Ear to the Wisdom Post, Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2008 Sublime Climate, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA
War, Madness and Delusion, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
2007 Drawing Now: An Invitational, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College,
Fall River, MA, Curated by Kathleen Hancock, Gallery Director
2006 I Witness: Art in a Political Context, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College,
Fall River, MA, Curated by Kathleen Hancock, Gallery Director
2001 Silent Dialogues, Dodds Hall Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
1999 What’s Really Real, Thoreau Gallery, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH, 1999
1996 Religious Art the Spiritual in Art, McKillop Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
1996 Works on Paper, Dana Art Gallery, Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA
1996 Ciao! Italia, Bentley Gallery, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA
1994 International Women’s Day, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1993 International Women’s Day, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1980 Juried Group Show, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1980 Group Exhibition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1979 Juried Exhibition, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
1979 Art Feminine, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1978 Group Exhibition, Our Lady of the Elms College, Chicopee, MA
1977 Valley Women Artists, Smith College, Northampton, MA (invitational)
1975 Regional Exhibition, Mt. Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA
GALLERIES AND OTHER VENUES
2023 Violence Transformed: Face It, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
Fresh Ink, Allie Kussin Main Gallery, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord MA Printmaking and Social Engagement, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2022 Lost and Found, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA
2022 We the People, Puffin Cultural Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
2021-23 Boston Printmakers Small Print Exhibition, Traveling
2020 Out of Place, Fountain Gallery, SOWA Boston, MA
2019 I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2017 One Year of Resistance, Untitled Space, New York, NY No Longer Art, B’NK’R, Munich ,Germany
2016 Visual Arts Faculty of the Summer Program, Hudson D Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2014 The Cloud in the Paper, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetowm MA
Personal Terrain: Contemporary Mapping, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2013 The Newtown Project: A Call to Arms!, Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art, Washington DC (traveling)
The Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards to FAWC Fellows, Hudson D Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 Chain Letter, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA
2010 The Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA (traveling nationally)
2009 paperJAM – works on paper invitational, artStrand, Provincetown, MA
2008 Violence Transformed, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
Experiencing the War in Iraq, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI, (traveling, catalog)
2007 Viewpoints: Visiting Artists 2007, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
GALLERIES AND OTHER VENUES
2006 Gallery Artists, Ernden Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Everything Begins in the Water, Mayyim Hayyim, Newton, MA
2005 National Competition, Ames Mansion, Easton, MA
Season Opening Exhibition, Ernden Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2004 Selections from the Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Art Activism, Lecei Gallery, Concord, MA
2003 Art New England Faculty Exhibition, Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA
Auction Preview –Monoprints, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2002 Empathy, Tremont Gallery, International Society, Boston, MA
Madonna & Child, Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2001 Boston Drawing Project Inaugural Exhibit, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, Curated by James Hull
Graphite, Barton Ryan Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Former Fellows 1968-1984, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2000 Of Our Time: Artists & Their Art (invitational), Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Serial, Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, MA (four person exhibition)
1999 Distant Views, Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, MA
1998 homeWORK, Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, MA
1998 Recent Work, Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA (four person exhibition)
1998 In the Spirit of Drawing, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
1996 Women in Art, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA (invitational)
1995 Imagining Angels, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Watercolors, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
1994 Watercolors, A Visual Dialogue, Jefferson Cutter House, Arlington, MA
1993 Paintings, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1992 Diversity and Vision, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Heart of the Arts Exhibition, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
1990 Spectrum 1990, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
1989 Open Studios, Vernon Street Studios, Somerville, MA
1987 Paintings, Modestino Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1987 Cambridge Art Association Juried Exhibition, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1986 Invited Artists, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Emerging Artists 1985, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Invitational, Palm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1982 Gallery Artists 1982, Webb & Parson Gallery, New Cannon, CT
1981 Gallery Artists 1981, Webb & Parson Gallery, New Cannon, CT
1979 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows, Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Annual Juried Exhibition, Leverett Craftsmen & Artists, Leverett, MA
1977 Plants: Artists’ Interpretations of Flora and Greenery, Dasenka Gallery, Northampton, MA
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/APPOINTMENTS
2024 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency (upcoming – April 2024)2023 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cultural Sector Recovery Grant
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant
2019 Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program Art Award Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant
2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Puffin Foundation Grant
2015 Artist Resource Trust Grant Foundation for Contemporary Art, Artist Emergency GrantWomen’s Studies Research Center, Research Grant
2014 Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University Feminist Art Base Artist, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
2013 Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council
2012 Visiting Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
2006 Artists’ Resource Trust Grant
2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant by Arlington Arts Council, and 1998, 1996, 1992
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art Blog, 2021, Sophisticated, exquisitely executed, and provocative, Linda Bond at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Andrea KirshErrors and Omissions, 2021, Exhibition catalog, Drexel University, ISBN: 978-0-7643-6278-1LOADED Guns in Contemporary Art, 2021, Suzanne Ramljak, Schiffer Publishing LTD, ISBN:978-0-7643-6278-1
Emergence:the Role of Mindfulness in Creativity, 2020, Rosie Rosenzweig, Anaphora Literary Press, ISBN:978-1-6811-4539-6Boston Voyager, 2019, Meet Trailblazer Linda Bondartscope, 2018, Political Art – Centerfold ProfileArtSake, 2017, Artist to Artist, Massachusetts Cultural Council online publication
Atlas Obscura, 2017, Where Damaged Art Goes When It’s Deemed a “Total Loss”, Michael Inscoe
The London Times Literary Supplement, 2017, The value of art without value, Hayden VernonValley Advocate, 2016, “Up In Arms” – Brattleboro Museum offers an artful twist on the gun show, Hunter Styles
Greenfield Recorder, 2016, Beyond the art on the wall – Brattleboro Art Museum presents “Up in Arms: Taking Stock of Guns”, Trish Crapo
Brattleboro Reformer, 2016, Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center features different kind of gun show, Kevin O’Connor
The Commons Online, 2016, Targeting Controversy at BMAC, Wendy M. LevyThe Justice, 2015, WSRC exhibit highlights war’s devastating effects, Brooke GranovskyThe Brandeis Hoot, 2015, Art Exhibition “Reconnaissance” Explores Violence in the Middle East, Adam Lamper
Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places, 2014, Deborah Forman, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Artscope, May/June 2014, Personal Terrain, James Foritano
The Hippo, February 20, 2014, Saturated with News Linda Bond’s NYT-Inspired war exhibition at SNU, Kelly Sennott
The Justice, February 11, 2014, Students embroider to promote women’s education, Catherine Rosch
The Washington Post, January 24, 2013, Artists contribute to “Newtown Project: A Call to Arms! Mark Jenkins
The New Yorker, December 24 & 31, 2012, R.I.P. Department – Zombie Art, Rebecca MeadStudio Visit Magazine (volume twenty), 2012, Open Studios Press, Jonathan Greene curator,
Art New England, September 2011, Linda Bond A Count, Linda Bond Collateral Damage, Sarah BakerDaily Hampshire Gazette, Sept 8, 2011, At A.P.E., Canal Gallery, artists attempt to make sense of chaos 9/11 unleashed, Steve Pfarrer
The Wayland/Weston Town Crier, September 18, 2008, Artist Explores America’s War on Terrorism at CSW
The Boston Globe, October 16, 2008, Seeing shades of gray in war on terrorism, Denise Taylor
The Boston Globe, February 28, 2008, New gallery tackles a hot topic, Denise Taylor
The Boston Globe, October 11, 2007, Classical meets Contemporary, Robert Knox
Provincetown Magazine, July 12, 2007, Linda Bond: Finding the Beauty in Tragedy, Nicholas Messing
The Boston Globe, May 28, 2006, Emerging artists display fresh perspectives, Greg Cook
Artscope Magazine, May/June 2006, New England/New Talent at Fitchburg Art Museum, Leon Nigrosh
The Montachusett T & G, April 20, 2006, New Talent emerges, Craig S. Semon
The Providence Journal, March 23, 2006, Crafted to provoke: Hot-button issues explode at two exhibits, Bill Van Siclen
Fitchburg Art Museum, 2006, exhibition catalog, March 2006, 8th Biennial New England/New Talent
The Herald News, March 8, 2006, Artists making statements, Kathleen Durand
Bristol Community College, March 2006, exhibition brochure, I Witness, essay by Kathleen Hancock
The Arlington Advocate, December 1, 2005, Transforming war into artwork, Jennifer Mann
Fitchburg Art Museum, September 11, 2002, digital catalog, A Nation Mourns & Artists Respond
The Montachusett Telegram, September 8, 2002, Artists help Community with Healing, Craig Semon
The Boston Globe, December 23, 1999, Words and Images in Witty Puns and Arty Books, Cate McQuaid
The Arlington Advocate, November 11, 1999. Bond’s Mission: Rendering the Soul, Karen LaCaire Bouvier
The Bridge, May 30, 1997, Myth and Memory Explored in Exhibit, Vanessa Ko
American Artist, March 1995, Learning From The Italian Masters, Sara M. Doherty
The Arlington Advocate, December 22, 1994, Linda Bond, Watercolorist, and Her Students, Mia Krembrenk
Center Piece, Arlington Center for the Arts Newsletter, Fall 1993, Artist Profile: Linda Bond, John Shesler
The Boston Sunday Globe, January 17, 1993, Artists, writers find inspiration at this cemetery, Elaine Senay
The Boston Sunday Globe, August 12, 1990, Artist searches for a special moment to share, Anne-Marie Seltzer
The Worcester Sunday Telegram, June 17, 1990, Cemetery gives birth to Ms. Bond new approach, Frank Magiera
Sweet Auburn, Mount Auburn Newsletter, Spring 1990, Mezzogiorno, A Journey to Baroque, Jean Rosenberg
Art New England, June 26, 1990, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston SPECTRUM 1990: Boston Women’s
Caucus for Art Members Exhibition, Norma Steinberg
Buffalo Courier Express, November 23, 1979, Paintings of Buildings Stir Viewer, Richard Huntington
Massachusetts Daily Collegian, February 1999, Women by Women: ‘Art Feminie’, Eileen Foley
The Valley Advocate, February 7, 1979, Art Feminie, Laura Holland
Cape Cod Times, February 8, 1979, Art Fellows draw inspiration from Cape-tip, Catherine Gammon
Cape Cod Guide, January 1979, The Art Colony in Provincetown, Deborah Forman
The New Current, November 1977, Perspectives on Art in the Valley, Anne Bartsch
The Valley Advocate, 1977, Creative Spring Planting at Dasenka, Laura Holland
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
Mural Commission, Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston, MA 2009
Mural Commission, New England Medical Center Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, Boston, MA 2005
Mural Commission, Boston Medical Center Pediatric Unit, Boston, MA 2005
Mural Projects, (student led), New England Medical Center’s, Boston, MA, 2004, 2002, 2001
Mural Project, The History of Women in Northampton from 1600-1980 (collaboration) – a 3,600 sq.ft. Outdoor mural
in Northampton, MA, 1980; restored 2004. An accompanying research booklet was published in 1980
EDUCATION
1975 MFA, College of Humanities & Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1972 BFA, College of Fine Arts, Bradley University, Peoria, IL