Linnéa Gabriella Spransy (b. 1976, Oconomowoc WI)
EDUCATION:
Yale University School of Art, M.F.A. Painting (2001)
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, B.F.A., Fine Arts, Drawing (1998)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
‘Pacific Standard Time / Seeing the Unseeable’, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA (upcoming, Fall 2024)
‘No Song Unsung’ curated by ‘Supercollider’, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA, (July 2023)
‘Making a Mark’ Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, CA (2023)
‘Abstraction Not Abstraction’ PRJKTLA, Los Angeles, CA ( July 2022 )
‘Radical Dawn’, curated by Alicia Piller, Luna Anais Gallery, L.A., CA ( May-June 2022 )
‘Here After’, Bridge Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ( May-June 2022 )
‘Repetition of Difference’, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (Jan.- March 2022)
‘Differential Ontology’, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (June 2021)
‘Interface’, Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, CA (Nov. 2020)
‘The Phenomenology of Hope’, Supercollider Gallery (virtual exhibition), L.A., CA (2020)
‘Group Summer Exhibition’, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (June-July 2015)
'REVERB: Recent Abstraction in Painting', Bowling Green State University, OH (2014)
'CrossCurrents', Metcalf Gallery, Taylor Univ, IN (2014)
'The Kansas City Collection', traveling exhibition, (2013)
‘Emblazoned Ciphers’, University of Nebraska/Lincoln, NE (2011)
'H&R Block Flatefile Exhibition', Artspace, Kansas City, MO (2010)
‘Grant Miller, Ricky Allman, Linnea Spransy’, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, KC, MO (2009)
‘Art and Theology’, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2007)
‘Collect All Four’, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2006)
‘Unambiguous’, Art World Digest, Brooklyn, NY (2005)
‘The God Show’, NewSpace Gallery, Manchester, CT (2004)
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Cultural Council, Madison WI (2002)
Yale Thesis Group Show, New Haven, CT (2001)
Yale First Year Group Show, New Haven, CT (2000)
International Festival of the Arts, Kunming, China (1998)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
‘Ars Moriendi’, Duke University (School of Divinity), Durham, NC (2019)
‘Linnea Spransy’, MP’s Back Room @ OCHI Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
'Linnea Spransy', Metcalf Gallery, Taylor Univ, IN (2016)
'Amass', Virginia Green Gallery, BIOLA University, Orange County, CA (Fall 2013)
‘Linnea Spransy’, Housman Millworks, San Antonio, TX (Winter 2012)
‘Conundrum’, Boger Gallery, College of the Ozarks, MO (2011)
‘Linnea Spransy’, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2010)
‘All Systems Go’, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO (2008)
‘Near Recognition-Chaos and Other Theories’, Christine Wang Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2004)
Nordica Gallery, Kunming, China, (2002)
The Auxiliary Space, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI (2001)
Michael Wilson Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2000)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/COLLABORATIONS:
‘Poiesis’, (exhibition and performance with Lia Chavez), HUSK Gallery, London, UK (2014)
‘Tumult’, (exhibition and performance with Lia Chavez), Nomas Projects, Dundee, Scotland (2014)
‘Plethora’, (exhibition and performance with Lia Chavez & Maggie Hazen), Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
CURATION:
Bridge Projects Co-Director, Los Angeles, CA (2017-2022)
COLLECTIONS:
Stowers Research Medical Institute Collection
Ahmanson Collection
Hallmark Corporation
Madison Contemporary Art Museum Collection
AWARDS:
HUSK Residency (2014)
Art thru Architecture (2009)
Viewing Program/The Drawing Center (2004)
Vermont Studio Center Residency (2002)
Wisconsin Triennial Grant/Purchase Award (2002)
Wisconsin Triennial Grant/Best in Show (2002)
Yale Grant: Carol Schosburg Memorial Prize (2001)
Yale Grant: Harper Residency at Vermont Studio Center (2001)
Elizabeth Greenshields Grant (1998)
MIAD Full-tuition Scholarship (1994)