Greg Lindquist

Bio

Greg Lindquist is a New York-based artist and writer. His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries, institutions, and museums, including Lennon Weinberg, NYC, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and North Carolina Museum of Art.  He was awarded the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a NYFA Grant, and ArtOMI residency. Lindquist completed a dual undergraduate degree in Art + Design and Language + Literature at NC State University in 2003 and a dual master’s degree in fine art and art history from Pratt Institute in 2008; he also attended the Whitney American Museum of Art Independent Study Program as a studio participant in the 2017-18 year.

His painting and studio projects converge at the intersection of social justice, ecology, and environmental justice. Works by the artist are the in the collections of: ArtOMI, New York; Center for Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia; Francis J. Greenburger Collection; Golden Artist Materials, New Berlin, New York; The Richard Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, New York; The Laura Palmer Foundation, Poland. His work has been written about in artcritical.com, ARTnews, Artslant, Art in America, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Sculpture, The New York Sun, among others.

Lindquist has taught courses on studio art and art history at Montclair University, the Museum of Modern Art, New School, Pratt Institute, Ramapo College, Rhode Island School of Design, and SUNY Purchase. He also guest edited the November 2015 Critics Page in The Brooklyn Rail titled Social Ecologies on the ruptures and intersections of art and ecology and curated a concurrent parallel show of the same name with Rail Curatorial Projects. The Smoke and Water series paintings appeared in a painting installation at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2016. His writing about art has appeared in Art Forum, Art in America, ArtNEWS, Log, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. He currently serves as artistic advisor for the environmental organization Newtown Creek Alliance (NYC), departmental representative for Pratt Institute’s Center for Sustainable Design Studies (NYC), and is a member of the Susan Toplikar Memorial advisory board (NC).

Motivation to Serve on Leaders Council

After years of scouting leading to achieving Eagle in my senior year of high school, leadership has been one of my greatest strengths and passions. Service as a leader in various NYC boards and organizations, such as previously held leadership roles at Ad Reinhardt Foundation (curatorial organizer), The Brooklyn Rail (Art Books Editor, Curatorial Advisor), Pratt’s sustainability committee (departmental representative), as well as working closely with Mike Cindric and Betsy Rascoe to implement the Susan Toplikar Memorial Fund, and the Lucy Daniels Foundation, has inspired me to seek a role at the NCSU COD leadership council.

I have long understood that making, teaching, and writing— the three facets of my professional life— are interconnected and intertwined through service and leadership. NCSU’s COD and many of its core faculty such as Chandra Cox, Pat Fitzgerald, and Susan Toplikar were indispensable to my design education; I feel it is imperative to stay connected to these values and the school. Problem-solving and team collaboration was a lesson I took to Pratt Institute in grad school, where I served as our grad organization’s president for planning open studios, coordinator for visiting artist lecture series and several other series I created, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, directing the studio program’s exhibition at the prestigious venue of Artists Space. The same captaincy is essential (as Susan Toplikar once said, we’re all in the same boat, just some of us have been in it longer) in my teaching at RISD and Pratt Institute, where I currently am on faculty.

While I have remained connected to COD throughout via a painting exhibition of my work in 2008 and through working with Pat Fitzgerald’s COD students when installing NCMA painting installation in 2016 (see  video attached below, look out for Pat Fitzgerald’s digital animation class’s involvement!), I wish to transition to a more consistent leadership role to help grow community and design values.

Greg Lindquist on His Work in Altered Land from The North Carolina Museum of Art on Vimeo.