CV | lindaswanson

solo & duo exhibitions

2025 Mineral Bloom | Princesshof Museum | Netherlands

2025 between time | Michigan State University | Michigan, USA

2025 Must I change too | Louisiana Tech University | Louisiana, USA

2024 Two by Two | La Guilde | Montréal, Canada

2019 Omphalos | A-B Projects | Los Angeles, California

2018 Phasis | Galerie Maria Lund | Paris, France

2017 We are time's subjects | Galatea Contemporary Art | Bucharest, Romania

2016 Always Becoming | Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre | Skaelskor, Denmark

2015 Quantum Bloom | Practice Gallery | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2012 Resolutions | Luce Gallery at Cornell College | Mt Vernon, Iowa
2011 INFESTATION | Parcs Canada Lachine Canal National Historic Site | Montréal, Canada

2005 Views | Fosdick Nelson Gallery | Alfred, New York
2002 OF | Merlino Gallery | Long Beach, California

large-scale installations

2024 La Débâcle | Centre Materia | Québec City, Canada

2022 Fragilité Entrelacée | La Guilde | Montréal, Canada

2022 321 | Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, USA

2020 RAW | Gardiner Museum | Toronto, Ontario

2019 You am I | Veronique Wants Gallery | Minneapolis, Minnesota

2018 Together / Apart | Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2017 Material Histories Cultures of Resistance | Majestic Galleries | Nelsonville, Ohio

2016 Form Phenomenon | Hatton Gallery | Colorado State University | Fort Collins, Colorado

2015 Rooted in Soil | DePaul Museum | Chicago, Illinois

2014 Transformation 9: Raphael Prize Exhibition | Society for Contemporary Craft | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2014 Flow | Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, Minnesota

2013 The Ephermal: The Evolving | Barr Gallery at Indiana University Southeast | New Albany, Indiana

2013 Elemental | The Northern Clay Center | Minneapolis, Minnesota

2011 Pommes de la Terre | City of Mont Saint Hilaire and Le Pavillon de la Pomme | Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec

2010 Jardins 2010 Réinventées | City of Bromptonville Maison de la Culture Bromptonville | Sherbrooke, Quebec

2010 Clay Metamorphosis | Ainslie Art Center | Alexandria, Virginia

2010 Nuit Blanche | New City Gas Griffentown | Montreal, Quebec

2009 Grottos | Concordia, University | Montreal, Quebec

2005 Topologies | Loupe Gallery | Prattsburgh, New York

group exhibitions

2021 Equivocal Beauties (upcoming Summer 2021) | Bernardaud Foundation | Limoges, France

2021 Contemporary Clay (upcoming Fall 2021) | Western Carolina University Museum | Culowhee, North Carolina

2020 Sculpture National | Clay Center of New Orleans | New Orleans, Louisiana

2019 Cluj Biennale of Ceramics | Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca | Cluj, Romania

2019 OIKOSystems | The Gallery at St Paul Academy | St. Paul, Minnesota

2018 New Orientalia | Yingge Ceramics Museum | New Taipei City, Taiwan

2018 Shoe Box Show | Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre | Skaelskor, Denmark

2018 NCC Residential | Northern Clay Centre | Minneapolis, Minnesota

2017 Art Paris with Galerie Maria Lund | Grand Palais | Paris

2017 L'experience de la Coulour | Musée| de Sèvres | Paris, France

2017 Displace | Rockland Community College Gallery | Portland, Oregon

2016 Un Paradis sans pommiers | Grey Nuns Garden | Concordia University | Montreal, Québec

2016 Sight Unseen | NCECA Convention | Kansas City Convention Centre | Kansas City, Missouri

2016 From there to here | Marietta Building Foyer | Kansas City, Missouri

2016 International Cone Box Show | Hilliard Gallery | Kansas City, Missouri

2016 Coast to Coast | Brancoveneanu Palace Cultural Center | Bucharest, Romania

2015 Calibrating Color: The Visible Spectrum and the Ceramic Surface | Cohen Gallery | Alfred, NY

2014 Reclaimed: Documentation of Performance, Installation and Site-Specific Ceramic Work | One Wall Gallery | World Wide Web

2014 Clay Studio National | The Clay Studio | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2013 SOFA Chicago with Lacoste Gallery | Navy Pier | Chicago, Illinois

2013 Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design | Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities | Arvada, Colorado

2013 New Directions | Lacoste Gallery | Concord, Massachusetts

2013 Workhouse Clay National | Workhouse Arts Center | Lorton, Virginia

2013 NCECA Expo | George R. Brown Convention Center | Houston, Texas

2013 Out of the Blue | The Clay Studio of Missoula | Missoula, Montana

2013 Two by Two | Gallery of Art at Eastern Washington University | Cheny, Washington

2012 SOFA Chicago with Lacoste Gallery | Navy Pier | Chicago, Illinois

2012 Earth & Alchemy | Massart | Boston, Massachusetts

2012 Sortir de son assiette | Bibliothèque Neufchâtel | Quebec City, Canada
2012 fragile | The Seattle Design Center | Seattle, Washington

2007 HARDedgeSoft | Cazenovia College Art Gallery | Cazenovia, New York

2006 Crossovers: Art, Craft and Design | Delaware Center Contemporary Art | Wilmington, Delaware
2005 Alfred on 25th | Lohin Geduld Gallery | New York, New York

2003 NCECA Juried Regional Student Exhibition | San Diego State University Gallery | San Diego, California

commissions

2024 Trésor Natural | Musée Ambulant | Québec, Canada

2007 Play Light | Permanent architectural installation in le Blé en herbe Nursery School | Clichy, France

public art

2024 SPECTRE | Projet Tabloid | Montréal, Canada

collections

Cluj Ceramics Biennale Collection | Romania

Desjardins Collection | Canada

Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center | Denmark

Kansas City Art Institute Teaching Collection | USA

Musée National de céramique de Sèvres | France

Princesshof Museum | Netherlands

Shein-Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art | USA

Various private collections - Asia, Canada, Europe, USA

representation

Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France

La Guilde, Montréal, Canada

artist residencies

2026 Louisiana State University Ceramics Department | USA

2025 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center | Denmark

2023 Louisiana State University Ceramics Department | USA

2021 Louisiana State University Ceramics Department | USA

2020 European Keramik Work Center | Netherlands

2019 Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange | Reykjavik, Iceland

2016 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center | Denmark

2013 Northern Clay Center | USA

2009 Concordia University | Canada

2007-8 Kansas State University | USA

jury participation

2024 European Ceramic Context | Bornholm, Denmark

workshops & masterclasses

2025 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center | Workshop on Clay & Glaze with Linda Bloomfield | Denmark

2025 1001 Pots | Masterclass on Local clay | Québec, Canada

2024 CLAY Museum | Rocket Kiln Workshop | Denmark

2024 L'Atelier de l'île | Workshop on Print & Clay | Québec, Canada

2015 Fort Hays State University | Workshop on Installation | USA

2013 Midwestern State University | Workshop on raw clay | USA

visitng artist lectures & activities

2025 Royal Danish Academy |Bornholm, Denmark

2025 North-West Ceramics Foundation | Vancouver, Canada

2024 Århus Kunstakademi | Arhus, Denmark

2023 Scripps College | zoom to Claremont, California

2023 Art Gallery of Burlington - Clay at the End of the World | zoom to Ontario, Canada

2023 Michigan State University | Michigan, USA

2023 Limerick School of Art and Design | zoom to Limerick, Ireland

2022 Emmy Carr School of Art and Design | zoom to BC, Canada

2021 University of California, Los Angeles | zoom to Los Angeles, California

2021 Louisiana State University | zoom to Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2021 Concordia University | zoom to Montreal, Quebec

2020 Massachusetts College of Art | zoom to Boston, Massachusetts

2020 Gardiner Museum | Toronto, Ontario

2020 European Ceramic Work Center | Oisterwijk, Netherlands

2019 Oregon College of Art & Craft | Portland, Oregon

2017 University of Nevada | Reno, Nevada

2017 University of Ohio | Athens, Ohio

2017 Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio

2016 Brancoveanu Palace Cultural Center | Bucharest, Romania

2016 Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Centre | Skaelskor, Denmark

2016 University of Colorado, Boulder | Boulder, Colorado

2015 Colorado State University, Fort Collins | Fort Collins, Colorado

2015 School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois

2015 Fort Hays State University | Fort Hays, Kansas

2014 Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2014 The Society for Contemporary Craft | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2013 Cal State Long Beach | Long Beach, California

2013 USC | Los Angeles, California

2013 Cal State University Northridge | Northridge, California

2013 Midwestern State University | Wichita Falls, Texas

2013 Sheridan College | Oakville, Ontario

2013 Northern Clay Center | Minneapolis, Minnesota

2013 Mason des Métiers d'Art | Quebec City, Canada

2012 University of Georgia | Athens, Georgia

2012 Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia

2012 Concordia University | Montreal, Quebec

2012 Maryland Institute College of Art | Baltimore, Maryland
2011 McClure Gallery | Montreal, Quebec
2011 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University | Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois
2010 SUNY Oswego | Oswego, New York
2010 Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, New York
2009 SUNY Plattsburgh | Plattsburgh, New York
2009 Concordia University-Grotto Project | Montreal, Quebec
2008 Concordia University | Montreal, Quebec
2008 Kansas State University | Manhattan, Kansas
2008 Kansas City Art Institute | Kansas City, Missouri
2007 Alfred University | Alfred, New York
2006 Museum of the Earth Art Salon | Ithaca, New York

conference presentations

2025 InSite 2: Sustainatiliby Across Disciplines @ 4th Space | Montréal, Canada

2024 Genjord Symposium | Middlefart, Denmark

2024 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition at Abode Gallery | Virginia, USA

2023 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition at Convention Center - Flowing in Sustainability | Ohio, USA

2021 NCECA Earth Day Event - Presentation on Sustainable Ceramics Practices | online

2020 International Academy of Ceramics Conference - Concurrent Exhibition Remain Upright | online, Finland

2019 NCECA Conference - Presentation Hot Alchemy & Concurrent Exhibition Veronique Wantz Gallery | Minnesota, USA

2018 International Academy of Ceramics Conference - Concurrent Exhibition at Yinge Museum | Taipei, Taiwan

2018 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition Together / Apart | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2017 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition - Displace | Portland, Oregon

2016 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition - Sight Unseen & From There to Here | Kansas City, Missouri

2014 University Art Association of Canada, Urban Clay: Deploying Craft in the City | Toronto, Canada

2014 College Art Association, In a Material World: The Experiential Nature of Ceramics | Chicago, Illinois

2014 NCECA Conference - Concurrent Exhibition NCECA Annual Exhibition - Flow | Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2013 NCECA Conference - Emerging Artist Presentation and Concurrent Exhibition NCECA Expo | Houston, Texas

2013 Ephmeral Art & Practice, The Evolving Panel | Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana

2012 NCECA Conference, Panelist On the Edge of Form and Concurrent Exhibition Fragile | Seattle, Washington

curated

2016 Épisode: Second Virginia McClure Ceramics Biennial | McClure Gallery | Montreal, Québec

2012 fragile | Seattle Design Center | Seattle, Washington

honors
2024 Sustainability Fellowship | National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts

2023 Travel Grant | Canada Council for the Arts

2022 Research Seed Grant | Concordia University

2020 Arts Abroad Residency Grant | Canada Council for the Arts

2019 Travel Grant | Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec

2018 Travel Grant | Canada Council for the Arts

2017 Travel Grant | Canada Council for the Arts

2017 Travel Grant | Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec

2016 Travel Grant | Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec

2016 NCECA International Residency Award | Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark

2016 President's Excellence in Teaching Award | Concordia University | Montreal, QC

2016 Hot Alchemy Research-Creation Project | FRQSC- Fonds de recherche Société et culture Québec

2016 Purchase Prize | Orton Cone Box Show

2016 Gardiner Sculpture Competition, Finalist | Gardiner Museum | Toronto, Canada

2014 Raphael Prize Winner | The Society for Contemporary Craft

2013 Juror's Prize | Two by Two Sculpture Biennale | Gallery of Art at Eastern Washington University

2013 Emerging Artist Award and Grant | NCECA & The Windgate Charitable Foundation

2012 SSHRC Travel Grant | Concordia University

2011 SSHRC Travel Grant | Concordia University
2007 Special Opportunity Stipend | New York Foundation for the Arts
2006 Special Opportunity Stipend | New York Foundation for the Arts
2006 Member’s Award | Delaware Center for Contemporary Art
2005 Individual Artist Grant | Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
2005 Best of Category Mixed Media | Cattaraugus Arts Council
2005 Elmer Craig Award | NCECA
2002 Aardvark Merit Award | NCECA

authored

2026 Material Matters: An Artist's Guide to Ceramic Materials, co-authored with Linda Bloomfield

2019 "Hot Alchemy," NCECA Journal. Print

2016 Épisode: 2nd Virginia McClure Ceramics Biennial. McClure Gallery Catalogue. Print.

2016 "Linda Swanson on the Ceramics in the Expanded Field Conference," Journal of Modern Craft. Web.

2015 "Urban Clay - Deploying Craft in the City." Ceramics Art & Perception. Issue 102. December. Print

2012 "Material Time." NCECA Journal, 2012:33. Print.

publications

2025 Tarlow Kaplan, Wendy, “True and Real: Forty Contemporary Ceramists Reveal Realities of Our Time,” Utah Museum of

Contemporary Art, May 23, 2025. Online.

2025 “Post-Discipline and Post-Ceramics. Questions and reflections from a Latin American perspective,” Ceramics Now Magazine,

2025, print and online.

2025 Craft and Craftivism: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Ceramic, Fibre and Glass Artists in Canada, The Gail and

Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, 2025, online.

2025 Catalogue NCECA Annual: True and Real, 2025, print.

2024 Catalogue Manif d’art 11, 2024, print.

2022 The Society for Contemporary Craft Sounds from the Studio | podcast

2022 Ceramics Now Featured Artist, November 2022, www.CeramicsNow.org.

2022 Catalogue, Entangled Fragilities, La Guilde, 2022, print.

2022 Du Ruisseau, Olivier, « Quand l’artisanat trouve ses lettres de noblesse » Le Devoir, 17 August, 2022.

2021 « Uncooked Earth at the Gardiner Museum », cfile.capsule, November 19, 2021

2021 Catalogue, Beautés Equivoques, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France

2021 Catalogue, Contemporary Clay 2021, WCU Fine Arts Museum, Cullowhee, North Carolina

2021 LeBlanc, Victoria, Clay Roots, Visual Arts Centre, Montreal

2020 The Gardiner Museum Three Works: Linda Swanson on Substance | video

2020 “Exposure: RAW at Gardiner Museum”, Ceramics Monthly, September 2020

2020 Quartz Inversion First Wave, https://www.quartzinversion.com/linda-swanson

2019 Bassarab, Vlad, "Together/Apart." Ceramics Art & Perception , vol. 111, pp. 36-39. Print

2018 Boyce, Maryse, "La Céramique dans l’Art Contemporain." Voir , vol. 3 #12, pp. 42-43. Print

2017 Duponchelle, Valérie, "Quand Sèvres Hisse Les Couleurs!," Figaroscope , Janvier, 2018. Print

2017 L’Expérience de la Couleur Catalogue. Print

2017 Bodet, Frédérique, "L’Expérience de la Couleur – Une grande exposition et une saison culturelle à Sèvres-Cité de la

Céramique," Sèvres Magazine, #26, 2017, pp. 160-164. Print.

2017 Belleau, Mimi, Technologie des matériaux céramiques, 2017. Print

2017 Overstreet, Audrey, “Water themed exhibit of works by Chris Tyllia, Lisa Nappa and others opens at Saranac,” The Spokesman

Review, April 6, 2017. Web

2016 Tronaru, Daniel, “Coast to Coast – expozitia ceramistilor nord-americani la Palatul Mogosoaia”

cultura, October 9, 2016. Web

2016 Van Hoof, Marine, "Épisode", Vie des Arts, October, 2016. Print

2016 Donslund Mailing, Mathilde, « The Elements are Interpreted by Canadian Artist», Sjellandske,August 16, 2016. Print

2016 Stovall, Saba, "Sight Unseen", Yarrobil, July 2016: 4. Print

2015 Feige, Jacob, "Linda Swanson, Quantum Bloom,” Title Magazine . Web

2015 Carrol, Michael, “Quantum Bloom – Practice Gallery,” The Guide@Geist . June 4. Web

2015 “Rooted in Soil at the De Paul Art Museum” C Studiomosaic. March 15. Web

2015 Waxman, Lori, “Dirt Takes Center Stage at Depaul Art Museum,” Chicago Tribune . March 4. Print, Web

2015 Bartolovic, Frederick & Zakin, Richard, Electric Kiln Ceramics: A Guide to Clays, Glazes and Electric Kilns. The American

Ceramic Society, 2015.

2015 “Rooted in Soil” Catalog. DePaul Museum. 2015. Print.

2015 DePaul Art Minute "Rooted in Soil | video

2015 The Buffalo Bro Radio Hour, "Rooted in Soil Interview with Laura Fatemi and Linda Swanson." January 25.

2014 Taylor, Brian & Doody, Kate, Glaze: The Ultimate Ceramic Artist’s Guide to Glaze and Color. Book.

2014 “Transformation 9: Raphael Founder’s Prize Exhibition” Catalog. Society for Contemporary Craft. Print and Web.

2014 McKenzie, Heidi, “Flow: NCECA Invitational Exhibition,” Ceramics Monthly. 2014; 48-53. Print.

2014 Koplos, Janet, “Elemental Northern Clay Center Minneapolis,”Ceramics: Art & Perception. 2014, Issue 96; 100-103. Print.

2013 Janssen, Shauna, “INFESTATION: Subversive Ceramics in the Urban Field.”Ceramic ReviewMagazine.

November/December 2013, Issue 264;79. Print.

2013 Keane, Erin, “This is Not a Painting: Ephemeral Art Symposium Explores Fleeting Nature of Art and

Time.” WFPL News. November 2014. Web.

2013 Koplos, Janet, “Earth & Alchemy,”Ceramics: Art & Perception. 2013, Issue 93; 7075. Print.

2013 Lacoste, Lucy, "New Directions: Lacoste Gallery presents group exhibition of avant garde artists." Artdaily.org. August. 2013.

2013 “Earth Moves: Shifts in CeramicArt & Design” Catalog. Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities. 2013. Print

2013 Silberman, Rob. Elemental, Catalog from the Northern Clay Center, 2013. Print.

2013 Bowlby, Kalika. Interviewing NCECA 2013 Emerging Artist Linda Swanson, NCECA Blog. 2013; June. Web.

2013 Hanus, Julie K. Top 10 NCECA Conference Moments. American Craft Council Site. 2013; April 3. Web.

2013 "Exposure: Northern Clay Center Elemental Exhibition." Ceramics Monthly 2013; 5. Print.

2013 Glentzer, Molly. "That's Amazing Heart Often at Ceramics Conference." Houston Chronicle. 2013; March 20. Print.

2013 Combs, Mariann. "Northern Clay Center examines the elements of ceramice art." MPRnews. State of the Arts, April 19, 2013. Web.

2013 Swanson, LInda "Resistance." NCECA Journal, 2013. Print.

2013 "Exposure: Out of the Blue at The Clay Studio of Missoula." Ceramics Monthly. 2013; 2:21. Print.

2013 “Elemental Podcasts.” northernclaycenter.org. June. 2013. Web. | northernclaycenter.org

2011 Black, Heather. "Knowles and Swanson: Nature Reigns." Westmount Indpendent, June 21-22, 2011:23. Print and Web.

2010 Gogarty, Amy. Ceramics, Dissolution and Weak Thought: Towards a New Understanding of Practice.
Cahiers métiers d’art/Craft Journal. 2010; 3(2); 7-24. Print.

2009 Brown, Glen R. Ceramics Pluralism: Diversity of Practice and the Role of Criticism. Ceramics Art & Perception. 2009; 78: 43-47. Print.

2007 Gandouet, Marielle Ernould. Les Observations de Linda Swanson La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre. 2007; 157: 55-57.
2004 Rovner, Sophie L. A Haven for Glass & Ceramics: Alfred University trains some of the world’s top glass and ceramics

engineers and artists. Chemical & Engineering News. 2004; 82(21): 33-39. Web.

academic appointments

Concordia University | Associate Professor Studio Arts, Ceramics | Montreal, Canada | 2009-present

Kansas City Art Institute | Lecturer | Kansas City, Missouri | 2007-2008

Alfred University | Adjunct Assistant Professor | 2005-2007

education

2005 MFA, Ceramics | New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University | New York, USA

2002 BFA, Ceramics | California State University, Long Beach | California, USA

1990-3 Student Member | Tekisui Museum Workshop | Ashiya, Japan

1990 BA, Art History with honours | University of California, Sanat Barbara | California, USA

memberships

International Academy of Ceramics, 2016 to present

Artaxis, 2007 to present

National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), 2005 to present

NCECA Green Task Force, 2020-24