Trained as a Textile Designer yet thinking and practicing as a painter, Linda King Ferguson maintains studios in Marquette, MI and Nashville, TN. She has a MA from Rhode Island School of Design, MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she studied at Penland School of Crafts and Academia Di Belle Arti in Perugia, Italy.   Ferguson’s work is represented by Graci Gallery, Marquette and she has an affiliation with Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY and Channel To Channel, Chattanooga, TN. She recently had solo exhibitions at DeVos Art Museum, Channel to Channel, Lipscomb University, and Susan Hensel Online Gallery. She has also exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY; New York Artists Equity Gallery, New York, NY; White Columns Online, New York, NY; dodomu Digital Gallery; and Odetta Digital Gallery. Ferguson was awarded residences at Press Here Projects, Ragdale Foundation, and Morris Graves Foundation. She also was a resident artist semi-annually from 2013-2017 at Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn, NY. She was awarded a Personal Development Grant from the State of Michigan in 2015, and a Northern Michigan University Educational Research Grant in 2013. Her work is published in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Vol. 113, Presence, Artdose Magazine, and Boulevard Nos.68-69. Ferguson was Founder and Director of The Bakery from 2017-2020, a non-profit, artist run project space, Munising, MI. As contingent faculty she taught from 2008-2013 at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI. From 1992-2008 Ferguson was a Curatorial Board Member for a non-profit, artist run space, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI. She has had representation by OK Harris (David Klein Gallery,) Birmingham, MI, the former Owings-Dewey, Santa Fe, NM, and the former River Gallery, Chelsea, MI

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