Linda KarshanLINDA KARSHAN, American, b. 1947, was educated at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (1965-67); the Sorbonne, Paris (1967-68); and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1969). In 1983, she earned a Masters in Humanistic Psycholgy from Antioch Centre for British Studies, London. Her MA thesis, entitled Play, Creativity and the Birth of the Self, focused on D.W. Winnicott's theories of transitional space and creativity, which are central to Karshan's artistic practice. She draws with a method, but no plan, using her inner choreography and balletic norms for kinesis. She is noted for an irrepressible inventiveness that disregards boundaries (or edges), leading to such groundbreaking outcomes as her 'walked drawing' genre, which entails her employing her feet as drawing points to enact walked lines and movements that reflect her internal rhythm. Her solo museum exhibitions include, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiori, Venice, (2018), Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (2013); Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (2003); Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK (2002); Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002). Group exhibitions include: The Courtauld, London, UK (2014, 2012), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (2013, 2010), Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany (2013), British Museum, London, UK (2010), Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany (2009), and Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (2008). She regularly exhibits with several galleries in Europe, and with ART 3 in Brooklyn, NY. Karshan's drawings, prints and artist's books are held in public and private collections, including, in the UK: The British Library, The British Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sir John Soane's Museum, Tate Modern, The Arts Council Collection, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, England; in the US: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY. A suite of thirteen prints have been recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read More Read Less
