Linda Lay
lindalay.com
[email protected]
Born: 1971, San Jose, California
Currently resides: Marina, CA
Education
2010 MFA, Creative Writing, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2008 BFA, Painting (with a three-semester concentration in Digital Film), Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, MO
1992 Monterey Academy of Hair Design, Pacific Grove, CA
1990 Seaside High School, Seaside, CA
Group Exhibitions, Projects, Performances and Readings
2020-2021
RfCC, Collaborative fashion project with Mai Ryuno, Mixed media, digital media. Presented through social media.
2020
My Eye, Your Eye, Our Eye, fiber art and mixed media, 4th Annual Virtual Arts for the Cause, Emerging Artists Alliance charity for Black Lives Matter and Black Visions Collective, Monterey, CA
2019
LINDALAY'S CATZINE, Magazine Issue Release Exhibition Event/Play Full Ground's 2nd Anniversary with Mai Ryuno and Nina Kahn, Play Full Ground, New Monterey, CA
Hang Loose, framed fiber art, 26th Annual MMA Miniatures Show, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Time Travel Promise, costume, performance and reading of original text, My Body, My Voice, Open Ground Studios, Seaside, CA
Pool Party, installation and performance. Collaboration as Yass Monterey, Carmel Mission Inn, Carmel, CA
Lettuce Remember, found object and text, Salinas Valley: Past, Present and Future, CSUMB Arts and Culture Center at the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
Color Full Play. soft sculpture installation and dance performance, collaboration with Nina Kahn and Mai Ryuno, Play Full Ground, New Monterey, CA
2018
Fruit Fly, 2018, soft sculpture, Mercado: Farm and Art Show, Play Full Ground, New Monterey, CA
After Work Anger Dance, video performance, Good and Mad, Open Ground Studios, Seaside, CA
Wrestlers, selection of paintings, 28th Annual Monterey County Artist Open Studio Tour, Open Ground Studios, Seaside, CA
Jordans, selection of paintings, Making Our Mark, Open Ground Studios yearly group exhibition, Open Ground Studios, Seaside, CA
Jordans, series of twelve paintings, Open Ground Studios exhibition at the West End Festival, Sand City, CA
LINDALAY'S CATZINE Issue #1, art zine, Ferment Event at Monterey Museum of Art
Wrestler Series, paintings, Benchwarmers at Blockfort Studios, Columbus, OH
2016
Bernie, painting, Radical Art Show, Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Cat, Fish, Lizard, paintings, The Cardboard Art Show, Artist and Craftsman Supply, Los Angeles, CA
Office Art Show 2011-2015, paintings, curated by Dani Turner, Modern VideoFilm gallery, Burbank, CA
Handmade LINDALAY, handcrafted art, Summer Swarm Fest, Hive House Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
LINDALAY Fashion 2015, reconstructed fashion line, Runway Boutique, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Hamlet A.D.D., actress, feature film directed by Andrew Swant and Bobby Ciraldo, Special Entertainment Productions, Milwaukee, WI
Handmade LINDALAY, handcrafted art, Holiday Hive Fest, Hive House Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Wrestling and The Roundabout, paintings, two person art show with Stacy Elaine Dacheux, The Dog Show USA, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Dinosaurs and Analog Conversions, paintings, two person art show with Stacy Elaine Dacheux, King King Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Dust, art director, feature film directed by Adam Dugas and Casey Spooner, produced by Michael Stipe, Kansas City, MO
Breaking Bonnie, Episode 2, actor, “Fortune Teller”, Bonnie McKee webisode, Los Angeles, CA
Star Shoes, reading, Featherless Reading Series #14, Stories L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Human Time Poem, collaboration, original animation for Amanda Ackerman’s reading of her poem, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Nibbles, costume, comedy performance with props, FUNNYBONEZ w/ DOG SHOW, The Dog Show USA
Star Shoes, reading of original text, Featherless Reading Series, Stories L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2011
Catalyst, reading, MLA Off-site Poetry Reading, Artshare, featured online at PennSound, Los Angeles, CA http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/MLA-Offsite-2011.php
Abra Benjabot, two-person costume, original design and construction created for Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk for &Now Festival of New Writing in San Diego, CA
LINDALAY Spring Fashion 2011, reconstructed fashion line, Runway Boutique, Los Angeles, CA
LINDALAY Magical Wizard, Interactive Performances, The Dog Show USA, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Telephone, Mathew Timmons' The Arc of Noise, choir member, François Ghebaly Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Chicken, reading, Spinning Yarn: An Evening of Storytelling Through Folk Music + Spoken Word, Stories L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Men In Love, Gossip music video, actor, troublemaking bus rider, directed by Justin Kelly and Cody Critcheloe, produced by Sony Music Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Time Capture Archive, multi-media performance installation, BFA Exhibit, H&R Blockspace, Kansas City, MO
2007
Stay the Same Never Change, actor, feature film directed by Laurel Nakadate, produced by Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
We Are Bruce Springsteen, music performance with Sarah Gail Luther, InDa Da Dun, Kansas City, MO
CMYK - Color Me Your Koncerns, Urban Culture Project at Jenkins Music Company, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006
A Long Suck from the Contusion, actor/dancer, solo dance marathon competitor, variety show produced by Kat Dison and Mandy McCarty, The Brick, Kansas City, MO
We Park Goats, dance performance, New Ear Music Ensemble All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, MO
2005
Obscura, Media Discharge, New Media/Performance, Vanderslice Hall, Kansas City, MO
2004
Isabel’s Fashion Spectacle, costume and dance performance, curated by Debbie Borel, Kansas City, MO
Pearl Necklace, painting, Lee Strasberg Institute, Amnesty International, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Celebration of Artistic Freedom Oscar Viewing Dinner and After Party Silent Auction, West Hollywood, CA
F.T.B., sculpture and dance performance, Sight & Sound from the Underground, curated by Frank Venedas and Nathan Cartwright, Hangar 1018 Los Angeles, CA
2004-current
Artwork Projection, curated by Damon Kidwell, 71 Design Team Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, USA
2002
Hearts for the Arts, Santa Cruz Cultural Council, Santa Cruz, CA
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2019
LINDALAY'S CATZINE, Magazine Issue Release Exhibition, Play Full Ground, New Monterey, CA
2015
Lizards, paintings, featured artist during Good For You Records and Fine Art magazine charity event for the Elton John Aids Foundation, Good For You Records Third Anniversary, DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Happy Carrot / Wicked Plastic, digital film, New Media Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Please Looking At Light, room installation, New Media Gallery Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2004
Ragdoll Eyes, paintings and sculpture, Instant Karma Café, Excelsior Springs, MO
Laptop and a Latte, paintings, Café Pergolesi, Santa Cruz, CA
Semen Series, paintings, Bourgeois Pig, Hollywood, CA
2003
Ai Lupe! Our Lady of Guadalupe, paintings, sculpture, spectacle, Linda Lay Atelier, Hollywood, CA
From Girl to Goddess, paintings, YMI Yoga Studio, West Hollywood, CA
Arrival Series, paintings, Ed’s, West Hollywood Art Walk, West Hollywood, CA
Esot-Erica, paintings, Top Fuel Coffee Shop, Hollywood, CA
Kept, paintings, UK Salon, Beverly Hills, CA
Published Works
2015
My Self Care, essay and illustrations, RevisingLoneliness.com
2012
Why Me, concept, animation and editing, music video released by Good For You Records and Director’s Cut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPZYOgUCM3k
Entertainment News, painting, LAHOLLY Magazine
2011
Svinjar the Oracle Spam, video/performance art, Vol 4. Relationship Archetypes, Slack Lust Literary Journal
Fem(inist)-Bot: A Woman’s Discussion of the 90’s, columnist for FruitFlyLife.com
Cody Chritcheloe & SSION: The BOY Genius Revealed, interview for FruitFlyLife.com
Liza Johnson, director of the film, Return, interview for FruitFlyLife.com
2010
Love and Other Allergies, original concept promotional art for five plays by Michelle Kholos Brooks, L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Let Them Have Guam and We’ll Take 200 Noh Plays: a Conversation with Ezra Pound’s daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz and Paul Vangelisti, video editor for interview enclosed in his book of poetry, La Vita Semplice, Publisher: Emilio Mazzoli Editore, Modena
Dyno-Gyno, short prose, Sprung Formal Literary Magazine, Kansas City, MO
2008
Welcome, short prose and painting, issue #6 The Black Boot Literary Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
See How We Are, original concept promotional art for four plays by Michelle Kholos Brooks, Laurelgrove Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA
Chicken, short prose, Sprung Formal Literary Magazine, Kansas City, MO
2002
You Never Know Who She Might Put Into Her Works, Artist’s Corner, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz, CA
Press/Interviews
2012
Interview with Linda Lay, by Sarah Gail Luther, Riverwest Radio, Milwaukee, WI
Occupy Movement: Politics and Performance, interview by Cheryl Lubin, Progressive’s Corner Radio
The Dog Show for Touchy-Feelies Only, Vice Magazine L.A.
Boutique the Dog Show Is Brimming With Bizarro Fun, Papermag
Alternative Private School Educator Stays True to Her Art, Sherman Oaks Patch
2011
Purple Night: Opening of Tim Burton’s Retrospective at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, Purple Diary
Bill Cunnnigham New York City Screening, Costume Council Screening, Los Angeles, CA, Huffington Post
2008
Bold & Beautiful, Urban Times, Kansas City, MO
2002
Artist’s Corner, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz, CA
Teaching Experience
2018-current: Art, Photography and Creative Writing, Fusion Academy Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2011-2017: Art, Photography and Creative Writing, Fusion Academy Warner Center, Woodland Hills, CA
2010-2011: Tutor Volunteer, 826LA, Los Angeles, CA
2009-2010: Writing Tutor, Otis College of Art and Design
2007: Teaching Assistant, Pre-College Art Lab, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Other
2021-current: Cross-Curricular Lead, Fusion Academy Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2008-2010: Chief Web Administrator, Graduate Writing Program, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2008-2010: Assistant Editor, OR Literary Tabloid, Los Angeles, CA
2008-2010: Assistant Editor, Seismicity Editions, Los Angeles, CA
2007-2008: Intern, Peggy Noland Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
2003-2004: Linda Lay Atelier, owner/director, Hollywood, CA
2000-current: LINDALAY.COM, proprietor