Linda Brooks

The personal content of my photographic practice is connected to larger cultural contexts. Individuals, scenarios, or objects are situated within relationships, experiences, and external circumstances. Over more than 40 years, I have worked as an artist, teacher, curator, and parent in the Twin Cities. I was a Hermitage Fellow for 2018-2020. Artist fellowships have been granted from the NEA, Rimon: The MN Jewish Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation. My photographs have been included in more than 80 group exhibitions including Pier 24, San Francisco; Aperture, NYC; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; and the 5th Vienna Biennale, Austria. More than a dozen venues including Walker Art Center; the Cultural Center, Chicago; and the Sabes Jewish Community Center, MN have installed solo exhibitions. Photographs are in the collections of The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Minnesota Historical Society, George Eastman Museum, and The Brooklyn Museum. Young Voices: photographs of/by girls/teens/women, and the Jerome Hill Centennial Photography Exhibition 2005 are among the shows I have curated. Images from between the birthdays are included in Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. PROXIMITIES art, education, activism was published by TC Photo in late 2020. Photography projects can be seen at www.lbrooksphoto.com.