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b. 1945

EDUCATION

1986-2017   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1963-66   Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

TEACHING

1986-2017   California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Professor; Sculpture Department Chair, 1988-2000

1985-90   San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1985-86   Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

1985-86   San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

1981-84   Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD

1979   Mills College, Oakland, CA, Visiting Artist

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2016
International Sculpture Center’s 2016 Outstanding Educator Award

2007
Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York

1994
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., NY

1993
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
Distinguished Faculty Award, California College of Arts And Crafts, Oakland, CA

1991
La vie des Formes, Chalon-sur-Saone, France

1986
Art Matters, New York, NY

1983
Athena Foundation, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Intertwined, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (online catalog)

2019
Figment, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Allusion, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2018
Linda Fleming, Stremmel Galleries, Reno NV
Confluence, Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Catalogue

2017
In Context, Drawing, Models: Works by Linda Fleming and Roger Berry, Art and Art History Building Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Linda Fleming: Aerious, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2016
Linda Fleming: Tangible Mind, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2013
Evanescent: Linda Fleming Sculpture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Materialized, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Making Places, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2012
Linda Fleming: Modeling the Universe University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Linda Fleming: Modeling the Universe Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
Drawn To/Drawn From: A 45 Year Survey, Oats Park Arts Center, Fallon, NV

2011
Linda Fleming: Modeling the Universe, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV., Catalogue
Meanderings, Brian Gross Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2010
Linda Fleming: Wood Sculptures from 1988 to 1992, Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO

2008
Peripheral Vision, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2007
Refugium: Works from 1980 -2007, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA, Catalogue.

2006
Nebula/Ether/Wisp, Sculpture and Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2005
Ex-halations, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2004
(Dis) Integrated Ingredients, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM

2003
Protracted Meditations, Graphite Drawings, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

2003
Parallel Universe, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2001
Phosphene, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada Tracery, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000
Perishable Industry, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO

1999
Galileo’s Daughters, Sculpture and Drawings, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM

1998
Tangible Mind, Sculptures 1991-1998. New Mexico State Capital Grounds, Santa Fe, N.M. Catalogue.

1997
Experimenta de Vacuo Spatio, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, California. Catalogue.

1995
Wilderness Study Area, Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, Oakland, CA. Brochure.

1994
Linda Fleming Sculpture and Drawings. Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1993
Distinguished Faculty Exhibition. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA

1991
Linda Fleming; The Roman Glass Drawings and Related Objects. San Francisco State University Art Department, San Francisco, CA
Linda Fleming, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, Catalogue.

1990
Linda Fleming Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis

1988
Linda Fleming: Monumental Sculpture, 1985-88, Esprit Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA

1983
Linda Fleming: New Sculpture. Construct South Sculpture Park and Gallery, Miami, FL
Linda Fleming: Sculpture and Drawings, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, Brochure.

1981
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY

1979
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
Contemporary Women of Abstraction, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018
Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

2017
In Context, Drawings, Models, Works by Linda Fleming and Roger Berry, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.  Two person exhibition.
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Bivins Gallery, Dallas, TX

2016
Colorado Women in Abstraction, CVA, Denver, CO
Brian Gross, San Francisco, CA
Declaration, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2015-2016
Conversations in Sculpture, Voight Family Sculpture Foundation, Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa, CA

2015
The Thin Line, Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio, TX
The Object and the Void, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2014
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2013
Catalyst: Colorado Sculpture, Denver Botanic Gardens

2012
Material Abstraction, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2011
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

2010
Hauntology, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

2009
Paper, Mylar, Vellum,  Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2008
Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational,  University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY. Catalogue.

2007
CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

2007
Honoring CCA at 100, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2007
New Additions Outdoors, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Marks, Scratches & Doodles, Palos Verdes Art Center, Ranco Palos Verdes, CA

2006
Remnants, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2005
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbauch Gallery, Portland, OR

2002
Steel Grrls, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2000
1:1, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999
Pierwalk, Chicago Navy Pier. May through November.

1997
Pierwalk, Chicago Navy Pier. May through October.

1996
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, N.Y., Catalogue.

1995
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY. Catalogue.

1993
Women in Wood, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY

1992
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
La Vie des Formes, Chalon-sur-Saone, France. Catalogue

1990
Wood Sculpture, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY Catalogue

1988
Bay Area Sculpture, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

1986
The New West, The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, Catalogue.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Inaugural Exhibition, Long Island City, NY Catalogue

1985
James Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Colorado 3D, The Arvada Center, Arvada, CO

1984
Sculpture Ideas, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Space X, Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1983
Eight American Sculptors, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, FL
Chicago Sculpture International: Mile 2. Art Expo, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Catalogue.
New Sculpture: Icon and Environment, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, September (Organized by Independent Curators, Inc., N.Y). Catalogue.

1982
Project Sculpture /Public Sites, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Views by Women Artists /New Sculpture, McGraw Hill Building, New York, NY. Catalogue
ConStruct South Sculpture Park, Miami, FL

1981
Shidoni Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Tesuque, New Mexico. Race Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Polychrome Sculpture. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980
Sculpture 1980, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MA
Painted Sculpture, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Catalogue.

1979
Mills College, Oakland, CA

1978
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Max Hutchinson Sculpture Garden, Houston, TX

1972
I-25 Artist’s Alliance, Colorado Springs, CO

1967
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
American Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA
David Rumsey, San Francisco, CA
Donald and Doris Fisher, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Jonathan Abrams, Albuquerque, NM
Enrico Martignoni, NV
First Bank, Miami, FL
Harbor Walk, The Olson Company, Benicia, CA
Hines and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund, Gateway Campus, South San Francisco, CA
Irwin and Judy Elson, Bloomfield Hills, MI
John and Dodie Rosekrans, Woodside, CA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, MO
Mark and Cathy LeBaron, Lincoln, NE
Martin Z. Margulies, Coral Gables, FL
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Neiman Marcus, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Private collection, Moscow, Russia
Private collection, Sydney, Australia
Robert and Karen Duncan, Lincoln, NE
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Twitter, San Francisco, CA
Vera List, New York, NY
William Duker, New York, NY

Linda Fleming

Crinoline, 2008

laser cut plywood

11 1/2 x 24 x 22 in.

Linda Fleming

Crinoline, 2008

laser cut plywood

11 1/2 x 24 x 22 in.

Inquire
Linda Fleming

Glide, 2025

Nu pastel on rag paper

44 x 55 in.

Linda Fleming

Glide, 2025

Nu pastel on rag paper

44 x 55 in.

Inquire
Linda Fleming

"Wisp," 2019

powder coated stainless steel on steel base with wheels

34 x 40 x 19 in.

Linda Fleming

"Wisp," 2019

powder coated stainless steel on steel base with wheels

34 x 40 x 19 in.

Inquire
Linda Fleming Wave, 2017 acrylic on laser cut plywood 13 x 21 x 9 in.

Linda Fleming
Wave, 2017
acrylic on laser cut plywood
13 x 21 x 9 in.

Inquire
Linda Fleming

Crinoline, 2008

laser cut plywood

11 1/2 x 24 x 22 in.

Linda Fleming

Crinoline, 2008

laser cut plywood

11 1/2 x 24 x 22 in.

Linda Fleming

Glide, 2025

Nu pastel on rag paper

44 x 55 in.

Linda Fleming

Glide, 2025

Nu pastel on rag paper

44 x 55 in.

Linda Fleming

"Wisp," 2019

powder coated stainless steel on steel base with wheels

34 x 40 x 19 in.

Linda Fleming

"Wisp," 2019

powder coated stainless steel on steel base with wheels

34 x 40 x 19 in.

Linda Fleming Wave, 2017 acrylic on laser cut plywood 13 x 21 x 9 in.

Linda Fleming
Wave, 2017
acrylic on laser cut plywood
13 x 21 x 9 in.