Highlights
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo:
Like Breath on Glass International Quilt Museum NE 2017
Seeing the Unseen Black Rock Arts Ctr MD 2017
Hearing the Quiet Visions Art Museum CA 2015
Bittersweet: Solo Retrospective Ste Marie Aux Mines France 2013
(On)Mogelijke Ontmoetingen Gallery InVorm Belgium 2012
Linda Colsh Galerie Concepcio Belgium 2011
Strassen-Szenen Freiburg Germany 2010
Quotidien de la rue La Bastide des Jourdans France 2009
Linda Colsh Textilmuzeum Budapest Hungary 2006
Artiste Invitée Solo Ste Marie Aux Mines France 2001
Linda Colsh Solo Seoul Korea 1989
Juried:
Fuller Craft Biennial Fuller Craft Museum Brockton MA 2022
Handcrafted BlackRock Center for the Arts MD 2022
SOFA Intersect Chicago 2020, 2021, 2022
Excellence in Fibers VII Fiber Art Now & Schweinfurth Art Center Auburn NY 2021-2022
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices BlackRock Center for the Arts MD 2021
Biennial Maryland Regional Exhibition College Park MD 2019
Excellence in Fibers IV Fiber Art Now & Craft In American Gallery Los Angeles CA 2018-2019
Excellence in Fibers III Fiber Art Now & San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 2017-2018
Layered Voices International Quilt Museum Lincoln NE 2017
Fiber National Workhouse Arts Ctr VA 2016
Outside/Inside the Box Philadelphia PA 2011
4th International Textile & Fibre Art Triennial Museum of Decorative Arts & Design Riga Latvia 2010
Art Quilt Elements Wayne Art Center PA 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2022
Fiberart International Pittsburgh PA 2007
3rd International Textile & Fibre Art Triennial Museum of Decorative Arts & Design Riga Latvia 2007
Visions Visions Art Museum San Diego CA 1996, 2006, 2008, 2012
Quilt National Dairy Barn Arts Center Athens OH 2005, 2007, 2009
7th International Baltic Minitextil Triennial Gdynia & Lodz Poland 2007
Mini Textile Art International Exhibition Kherson Ukraine 2007
European Quilt Triennial 3 Galerie Max Berk Heidelberg Germany 2006
Exposed Noho Gallery New York NY 2006
European Quilt Triennial 1 Galerie Max Berk Heidelberg Germany 2000
Contemporary Art Quilts London & Birmingham UK 2000, 2003, 2006
European Art Quilts Breda the Netherlands 2001
Patchwork au Grand-Duché Luxembourg
Invitational:
In The Round: Dimensional Fiber Emerson Gallery Mclean Project for the Arts VA 2022-23
Featured Artist Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA 2022
Fibers of Change Arnot Art Museum Elmira NY 2021
Substrates Montpelier Arts Center Laurel MD 2017
Contemporary Fiber Art Lore Degenstein Gallery PA 2015
Quilt (R)evolution: Quilt National Artist Jurors Retrospective Dairy Barn Arts OH 2014
Everything In Between Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UT 2012
EXNA IV Patchwork contemporain européen Neuchâtel Switzerland 2010
Mixed Media Fiber Art Danforth Museum of Art MA 2009
International Textile Art Invitational Embroiderers Guild Australia 2010
Voices in Cloth Milner Art Gallery Canada 2002
1000 Jahriger Osterreichs Invitational Exhibition Austria 1996
Cyber Fyber: Art Aprons 1997
SELECTED AWARDS:
Maryland Federation of Art Art on Paper Jurors Award 2022
Quilts Japan Prize 2012
First Prize: 3rd European Quilt Triennial 2006
First Prize: Fabric of Legacies Lincoln Center Galleries CO 2007
REPRESENTATIVE COLLECTIONS:
International Quilt Museum Permanent Collection,Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln NE
Lore Degenstein Gallery Permanent Collection Susquehanna Univ PA
Art in Embassies, US Ambassador to NATO Belgium
Collection of John M. Walsh III NY
Brakensiek Contemporary Quilts Collection NM
Nordwolle Textile Museum, Delmenhorst Germany
Museum of the City of Gdynia Poland
Krusemark Gmbh, Mülheim am Main Germany
Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection CA
Private collections (international locations)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Both Sides Now: The Art of Linda Colsh by Cate Coulacos Prato Quiltfolk 2022
Exploring Art Quilts 1 & 2 SAQA
Art Quilt Retrospective: Fifty Years of Innovation Studio Art Quilt Associates
Travel the Globe with Linda Colsh by Danielle Williams, Art Quilting Studio 2020
Linda Colsh: Walking In Quiet by Suzanne Smith Arney, Fiber Art Now 2016
The Studio Quilt: Linda Colsh monograph by Dr. Sandra Sider 2011
Linda Colsh’s Characters: The Unseen Made Visible by Patricia Malarcher, Surface Design 2010
Masters: Art Quilts, Lark Books 2008
Fiberarts Design Book 7
Cover: Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives
Cover & featured artist: EuroQuilt #2
EDUCATION:
M.A. History of Art -- University of Maryland
B.A. History of Art -- University of Maryland
CURATORIAL, JURY, JUDGING & CAREER SERVICE HIGHLIGHTS:
2022-present: SAQA Collection Review Panel
2020: Juror Ebb & Flow
2013-2019: IQM Advisory Board & Acquisition Comm
2015: Honorable Judge Quilt Nihon 2016 Japan
2015: Juror Q=A=Q, Schweinfurth Art Ctr
2013: Juror Quilt Nihon, Japan
2012: Juror Quilt National
2011: Curator: Celebration National Quilt Museum
2006-12: SAQA Board of Directors & Secretary
2006-10: SAQA Exhibition Commmittee
2010: Président du Jury Carrefour Européen du Patchwork
2012: Juror Concours Carrefour Européen du Patchwork
2009: Juror Visions
2003-06: SAQA Europe/MiddleEast Regional Rep
1998: Judge Belgian Quilt Guild National Exhibition
