Education

B.A. - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
M.F.A. - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 SVCCC Arts Project, St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, NY
1997 G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1994 G. W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1991  Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 
1989  Susan Teller Gallery, New York, NY 
1988  David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 
1987  G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY 
1984 G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
1980 G.W. Einstein, New York, NY
1982 Randall Beck Gallery, Boston, MA
1980 Teorema Gallery,Florence, Italy
1980 Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
1979 G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY

 

Recent Group Exhibitions

2008 31st Small Works Exhibition, New York University, NYC
2007 Gallery 225, Two Person Exhibition, "Apparitions" & "Lamina" collage series, NY
2007 Boston Printmakers' 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Boston, MA
2007

LESP Annual Juried Print Exhibition, Lower East Side Printshop, NY

2006 Group Exhibition - Perimeter Gallery, Chicago IL
2005 28th Small Works Exhibition New York University, NYC
2005 Peltz Gallery Apparitions : Portfolio Milwaukee, WI
1998 Paths to Abstraction Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1996
The Sciences: A Cultural Context New York Academy of Sciences    
1995 The Boston Printmakers 45th North American Print Exhibition   
1994 The 69th Annual Print Competition The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA    

 

Commission

2004 Apparitions - Portfolio of ten hand-collaged digital prints Pennsylvania State University Rare Books Collection

 

Collaboration

2005 Apparitions for Chamber Orchestra (2004) by David Glaser, a work based on 8 collages by Linda Plotkin. World Premiere: August 14, 2005 performed by the Peconic Chamber Orchestra. As the eight movements progress, each enlarged image is projected behind the musicians.


Teaching

1998-present City University of New York - New York City College of Technology - Department of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts
1989 Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
1986

SUNY-Purchase

1970-77

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Selected Public and Private Collections
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Cleveland Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Albright Knox Gallery
Art Institute of Chicago
Milwaukee Art Museum
New York Public Library
WorcesterArt Museum
San Diego Fine Arts Center
Boston Public Library
Philadelphia Museum
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA

Yale University Museum of Art
Univ. Michigan Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
Sweetbriar College, Va.
Ohio State University
Oklahoma Art Center
Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts
Pennsylvania State University
Poet's House, NYC
American Telephone & Telegraph
Amoco Productions
Arthur Anderson Corporation
Bank of America
Cabot Corporation
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Bank Program, Dept. of State
Fidelity Investments
Reader's Digest
Security Pacific
Coca Cola, Atlanta, Ga.
Bristol Myers Co., NY
Texas Commerce Art Shares
Quad Graphics
3M Corporation
Pfizer Corporation
United Parcel Service

 

Publication of Work

2007 "60 Years of North American Prints, 1947-2007", The Boston Printmakers
2007 "Four Sublets", a memoir, Myra Shapiro - book cover, "Water Tower", linocut Chicory Blue Press
2007

"In Greenwich Village We Talk of Love", poetry by Myra Shapiro, photographs by Linda Plotkin

2004 Centaur Records, div. of Archiv Records - cd cover A.L.Scarmolin:Italian Operas
2003 Albany Records, Durham, NC - cd cover Melancolie, music of Hindemith, Vaughn Williams, Aarvo Part
2003 Americus Records, Washington DC - cd cover Extraordinary Vistas, music written at the MacDowell Colony
1998     The Christian Science Monitor 
  1996     The Christian Science Monitor 
  1995     The Christian Science Monitor  
1994 The Christian Science Monitor
1992 The Christian Science Monitor
1992 Night Lake, poetry of Jean Valentine - illustrated book, published by The Press of Appletree Alley, Bucknell University
1997 The Sciences
1996 The Sciences
1995 The Sciences
1995 American Artist, March feature