Biography
Linda Karshan was born of Romanian origins, in Minneapolis, USA in 1947. She moved to London in 1969 and now lives in central London and works at her studio in Denmark Hill - moving each summer to Connecticut USA to live and work.

Her reputation has been created by her graphic work. Since 1994 this has tended to be both abstract and minimalist in character, normally flowing from a process of rhythmic repetition. She uses pencil but also brush and turpentine. She makes etchings and woodcuts as well as drawings.

She studied at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (1965-67), The Sorbonne, Paris (Art History) in 1968 and in 1968-69 at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She later took a masters degree in psychology (1980-83).

Her first solo show at the Redfern Gallery was in 1996. Since 1984 she has had solo shows in various galleries in London (including the Sir John Soane Museum), and in New York, Munich, Minneapolis, Cologne, Bucharest, San Francisco, Cluj (Romania), Valencia (a major retrospective at IVAM in 2002) and Cambridge (Kettle's Yard in 2003).

1947 Born, Minneapolis, USA
1965-67 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1968 The Sorbonne, University of Paris
1968-69 The Slade, University College, London

Collections
The British Museum, London
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Arts Council Collection, London
The British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Institute Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Cleveland
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Solo Exhibitions
1984 Clarendon Gallery, London
1984 ASB Gallery, London
1985 ASB Galley, London
1986 ASB Gallery, London
1991 ASB Galley, London
1991 Galerie Biedermann, Munich
1991 Galerie Biedermann, London
1993 Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1994 Galerie Biedermann, Munich
1995 Linda Karshan: New Works,Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997 Galerie Biedermann, London
1997 Linda Karshan: Marks and Traces, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1997 Galerie Biedermann, Munich
1998 Linda Karshan Prints and Drawings,Redfern Gallery, London
1998 National Theatre, Bucarest, Romania
1998 Museo Nacional de Arte, Cluj, Romania
1998 Museo Contemporaneo, Baia Mare, Romania
1998 National Museum of Art, Bistritzia, Romania
1999 Galerie Biedermann, Munich
2000 Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 Dee-Glasoe Gallery, New York
2002 Sir John Soane Museum, London
2002 Linda Karshan, IVAM - Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia
2002 Linda Karshan - Grids, Stacks and Other Moves, Redfern Gallery, London
2003 Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2003 Galerie Biedermann, Munich
2004 Constellation and Chance, Redfern Gallery, London
2004 Riflemaker, London
2007 Two Clear Days, Redfern Gallery, London
2008 Drawing as Process, Folkwang Museum, Essen
2008 Early Drawings, Galerie Werner Klein
2008 Linda Karshan: Time Being, A Fifteen Year Retrospective, Cain Schutle Gallery, San Fransisco
2008 Forms of Time II, Redfern Gallery, London
2010 The Greek Thing, Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin
2010 It's a Greek Thing: New Edition of 10 Drypoints and Jottings, Galerie Hein Elferink, The Netherlands
2010 Movements, and their Images, Galerie Biedermann, Munich
2010 Movements, and their Images, Redfern Gallery
2010 Movements, and their Images, Rhode Contemporary, Denmark
2010 Strich fur Strich, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
2011 New Works - Measure without Measure, Cain Schulte Contemporary, San Francisco
2012 New Drawings, Redfern Gallery, London
2012 Measure for Measure, Neils Borch Jensen, Berlin
2012 Light-Points, Galerie Biedermann, Munich
2013 Galerie Klein, Cologne
2013 Linda Karshan: Lines and Movement 1984-2012, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Group Exhibitions
1985 New Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York
1986 Drawings, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1988 The Legacy of Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
1990 Runkel-Hue-Williams Gallery, London
1995 Redfern Gallery, London
1997 Redfern Gallery, London
1997 Contemporary British Drawings, Edward Tyler-Nahem Fine Art, New York
1997 Montgomery-Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1999 White Out, Gallery Fine, London
2000 Underlying Perfection, Gallery Fine, London
2001 Unexpected Encounters, Galleria Prisma, Bolzano, Italy
2007 Portraiture: Tom Fecht, Linda Karshan, Paul Raguenes, Eyestorm Gallery, London
2008 A Winter Salon, Gallery Bjorn Ressle, New York
2009 Presence of the Line, Staatliche Graphische, Saamlung, Munich
2009 L'artistes de Nunc, Brussels
2009 A Winter Salon, Gallery Bjorn Ressle, New York
2009 Redfern Gallery, London
2010 Modern Times, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2010 Picasso to Julie Mehretu: Modern Drawings for the British Museum Collection, British Museum, London
2010 Re-Opening Exhibition, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2010 Lines in Space: Paule Vezelay and Linda Karshan, England & Co., London
2010 Inaugural Group Show, Cain Schulte Contemporary Art, San Francisco
2010 Modern Times, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK
2010 Group Print Exhibition, Leipzig
2010 The Courtauld Collects: 20 Years of Acquisitions, Courtauld Gallery, London
2011 Gruppenausstellung: Possessed By The Line, Kit Schulte Gallery, Berlin
2012 Lines Crossed: Grids and Rhythms on Paper, Courtauld Gallery, London