Linda Nguyen Lopez (b. Visalia, California) is a first generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, New Zealand, England and throughout United States including the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington DC; Red Arrow, Nashville, TN; Albertz Benda, Los Angeles; The Hole Gallery, New York; R & Company, New York; David B. Smith Gallery, Denver and Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami. Lopez was awarded the 2024 United States Artist Fellowship. She lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas where she is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.
Studio Inquiries: LindaLopezStudio@gmail.com
Represented by:
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2025
Between Frequencies, Linda Lopez and Mathew McConnell, California State University of Chico
2024
Drift, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Turn, Turn, Turn, Linda Nguyen Lopez and Karen Seapker, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
2023
Hold Everything Dear, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith
Live From the Moon, Linda Nguyen Lopez and Mathew McConnell, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa
2022
ʎpoqǝɯos, Project Space, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2021
Long Lost, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO
2019
Stranger, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2018
Intermission, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Linda Lopez and Marc Mitchell, Arkansas Historic Museum, Little Rock, AR
Group Exhibitions
2025
When the World is Beautifully Strange, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA
Shaping Time, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
Permanence of Earth: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Shaw Gallery, Weber State, UT
2024
Objects: USA 2024, R & Company, New York, NY
Immigration of Ceramics, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Soft Boundaries, Skye Gallery, New York, NY
50 Years in the Making, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Shaping the Future, Greenwich House Pottery X HB381 Gallery, New York, NY
Coalescence, Duam Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Asymmetrical Orbits, Harris Gallery, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA
2022
A Confluence of Coastal Creativity, Albertz Benda, Los Angeles, CA
Belonging, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington DC
Mundus Inversus, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021
Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Future Memories, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2020
B4, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
The Essential Goods Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Backbone of Things, Te Ahuaha Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
In Pursuit of a Meaningful Mark, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Surface Memory, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Fired Up in the Natural State, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas
2019
Burke Prize, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
Terra Incognita, Plant Seven, Highpoint, NC
2018
Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY
The Ashtray Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Melting Point, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Tactic III, Gertrude Herbert Institution of Art, Augusta, GA
Public Art:
2025
Infinite Slow Skies, OZ Art, Bentonville, AR
Slow Spaces, Arts in Embassies, US Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico
2023
Same Sky, Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Little Rock, AR
2018
Arkansas Artist Work Enrichment Billboard Project,1-49, Springdale, AR
Residencies:
2024 Allen + Benner Islands/Betsy Wyeth Residency, Colby College, Allen + Benner Island, ME
2023 Center for Craft, Ashville, NC
2017 GAPP Residency, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Resident Artist, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2016 Resident Artist, C.R.E.T.A, Rome, Italy
Grants and Awards:
2024 USA Fellowship, United States Artists
Fellowship, The First Ten
2023 Material Exploration Fellowship, Center for Craft, Ashville, NC
2022 Connor Fellowship, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2021 Honorable Mention, Virgina A. Groot Foundation Grant
2019 Finalist, Burke Prize, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Individual Artist Fellowship, Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, AR
2018 Artist 360 Grant, Mid America Art Alliance
2016 Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant