Curriculum Vitae

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019-2020 Test Review: Works by Warren Linn, Spur Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2019 Warren Linn, Inside Out, Julian Allen Illustration Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2018 Almost a Portrait, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY, NY
2015 Collages/Assemblages, Tower Hill School Founders Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2013-14 Raw and Resolved, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY, NY
2011 Incidente/Volere, the Italian Sketchbooks, SACI, Florence, Italy
2007 Them:Self, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2006 Recent & Revisted Work, Teavolve, Baltimore, MD
2004 LeftRight, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
2003 LeftRight, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000 Mileage Rethink, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1994 Published/Unpublished, Bergdorf Goodman Men, NY NY
1989 CBS Records Biennial International Meeting, 156’x24’ mural, Boca Raton FL
1989 Warren Linn, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA

Selected Two Person Exhibitions

2010 Warren Linn & Barry Nemett, City Hall, Pont-Croix, Brittany, France
City Hall, Moncontour, Brittany, Fr
Gallery One, Malestroit, Brittany, Fr
2003 Joe Ciardiello/Warren Linn, WBGO Radio, Newark, NJ
1985 Warren Linn/Bob Webb, Esther Rand Gallery, NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Rocked and Rolled, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
2018 Faculty Exhibition, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2017 Artists for Truth Benefit Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2016 Rehoboth Art League 7th Annual Biennial Exhibition, Rehoboth Beach, DE 
2015 Dec 1-6, Context Art Miami, Denise Bibro, 2 Sketchbooks
2015 Les 10 ans de l'Art dans les Cites, Chateaugiron, France
2015 Sybbatical Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2014 Exposition des Peintres Americains, Abbaye de Lehon, Brittany, France
2013 La Lumiere Fantastique, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2013 Speed and Pressure, Drawing Exhibition, VisArt, Rockville, MD
2012 Illustration: Outside the Box, the Ratner Museum, Berthesda, MD
2011 MICA Faculty Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2011 L’Art dans les Cites – Peintres Americain, Maison de Bretagne,
Paris, France
2011 Rolling Stone: Illustrating Music Icons, The Society of Illustrators, NY NY
2011 Keisho Exhibition, Wakaime Art School, Anjo Achi, Japan
2010 100 Artists, 100 Heads for Haiti, Spur Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009 Illustrators, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD
2008 Group Show, Joe Squared, Baltimore, MD
2008 Faculty Exhibition, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2008 Sabbatical Exhibition, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Balt., MD
2008 Harbor East Festival, Urbanite Magazine Space, Baltimore, MD
2008 New York, Real and Imagined, Icon 5 convention, NY, NY
2007 Erotic Art-One Night Stand, Teavolve, Baltimore, MD
2007 Rochefort-en-Terre Artists, Roland Park Place, Baltimore, MD
2006 Group Show, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
2006 The Ripple Effect, Society of Illustrators, NY NY
2006 Group Show, Chateau Gallery, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2005 SeeHear, Baltimore Magazine Project, Baltimore Museum of Art, Balt. MD
2005 30th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Bradley U., IL
2004 Faculty Exhibition, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2004 Illustrators Who Teach, Society of Illustrators, NY, NY
2004 Another Voice, Political Illustration from The Progressive, MICA, Baltimore
2004 Commissioned Non Commissioned, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2001 The Innocence of Ornaments, Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
2001 Group Show, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Artafare, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2001 Faculty Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2000 Group Show, Peer Gallery, Piermont, NY
2000 The Original Art- Childrens Books, Society of Illustrators, NY NY
2000 Faculty Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2000 Impressions: Contemporary Prints, Mesa Contemporary Arts Ctr., Mesa, AZ
1999 Faculty Exhibition, MICA, (Maryland Institute College of Art),
Baltimore, MD
1999 Jazzical Images X 4 NY Artists, The Jazz Gallery, NY NY
1998 Myths, Metaphors & Icons, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
1998 National Traveling Exhibition, The Society of Illustrators, NY NY
1997 A Tribute to Jazz Piano, The Jazz Gallery, NY NY
1996 International Jazz Art Exibition, The Jazz Gallery, NY NY
1996 Faculty Small Works, Parsons School of Design, NY NY
1995 It’s All Relative, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
1995 National Juried Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1995 Magnum Opiate, The Knitting Factory, NY NY
1995 Texas National ‘95’, Leon Golub Juror, Stev. F. Austin State U., Nacogdoches, TX
1995 MTV’s Free Your Mind Exhibit, The Art Directors Club, NY NY
1995 Almost Normal: Album Cover Art for Jazz, Parsons Gallery, NY NY
1994 Spots 7, The Society of Publication Designers, NY NY
1991 Art of Tryon’s Private Collections, The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
1991 Spots 5, The Society of Publication Designers, NY NY
1976 200 Years of American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, NYC
1975 Chicago ’75, Artists Guild of Chicago, IL
1973 Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Guild of Chicago, IL
1972 Print & Drawing Exhibit, The Artist Guild of Chicago, IL
1968 Body Show, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1966 The Chicago & Vicinity Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Fellowships and Residencies

2014 7-week Alfred and Trafford Klots International Artists Residency in Brittany, Lehon, France
2010 6-week Working Residency, 9 Petites cités de caractère, Brittany, France
2006 Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France

Grants and Awards

2014, 2011, 2005 Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grants
1998 Parsons Faculty competitive merit based Academic Leave, one semester
1997 Distinguished Teaching Award, New School, NY NY
1995 17th International Society of Newspaper Design Competition
1992 Dimensional Illustration, New York, Silver and Bronze Award

Awards of Excellence

2013 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, Works on Paper
1992 Silver Award, Bronze Award, Dimensional Illustration, NY NY
1990 Broadcast Designers Association, National/International Award
1990 Art Direction Magazine Creativity Award
1966 The Chicago & Vicinity Show, The Illinois Coolbaugh Prize,

Selected Artist Talks, Critiques, Workshops and Juries

2018 Two-week Artist's Tour, Southern China; 5 Artist's Talks & Workshops,
Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan,, Hangzhou, & Nanjing, China
2015 Artist's Talk and Program Assessment, Kansas City Art Institute, KC
2014 Junior Critiques, Carver Center for the Arts, Towson, MD
2012 Artist’s Talk, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington DE.
2010-11 Freshman Admissions Auditions Juror, Carver Center for the Arts,
Towson, MD
2009 Warren Linn & Barry Nemett, On Sketchbooks, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2009 Junior Critiques, Carver Center for the Arts, Towson, MD
2008 Senior Critiques, Carver Center for the Arts, Towson, MD
2006 Illustrators Who Teach Conference, Society of Illustrators, NY NY
2006-08 Grants Jury, Ruth Chenven Foundation Artist’s Awards
2004 Illustrators Who Teach Conference, Society of Illustrators, NY NY
2005 Graduate Critiques, Towson University, MD
2004 Visiting critic, Parsons School of Design
2000-01 Presentation, Storyfest, Westchester Schools, NY
1997 Lecture & Critiques, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
1996 Lecture & Critiques, University of Hartford, CT
1995 Lecture, & Critiques, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1993 Lecture, & Critiques, School of Visual Arts, NY NY
1990 Lecture, & Critiques, Montclair College, Montclair, NJ
1989 Lecture, & Critiques, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA

Publications
2023 American Illustration 42, book & website
2019 American Illustration 38, book & website,
2018 American Illustration 37, book & website,
2017 American Illustration 36, book & website,
2014 American Illustration 33, book, website, and audio site
2012 American Illustration 31, book & website
2011 6 Peintres Americains, L’Art dans les Cites, Maison de Bretagne, Paris, Fr.
2010 The Family, Urbanite magazine, October Cover & Interior Art
2010 Emerging Writers, Urbanite magazine, August Cover
2010 American Illustration 29, book & website
2009 American Illustration 28, book & website
2007 Fall Visual Art, Washington Post Online
2007 American Illustration 26, book & website
2005 Contributors Page, Baltimore Urbanite
2004 These Commercial Messages - Sketching Out, Baltimore City Paper & website
2000 American Illustration 19, book & website
1999 Happy Birthday Frankie by Sarah Weeks, Illustrations by Warren Linn,
Harper Collins/Laura Geringer Books
1999 American Illustration 18, book & website
1999 Publishers Weekly, 8.2.99 & 12.20.99
1997 The Society of Illustrators 39 Annual
1996 Communication Arts - Illustration Annual
1996 American Illustration 15, book & website
1996 The Society of Illustrators 38 Annual
1995 American Illustration 14, book & website
1994 The Society of Illustrators 36 Annual
1995 Communication Arts Illustration Annual
1994 Print Regional Design Annual
1994 This Week, Warren Linn at Bergdorf-Goodman Men, New York magazine, 4.18.94
1993 Free Your Mind, 30 artists reflect on Diversity, pub. MTV
1993 American Illustration 12, the book
1992 The Savage Mirror, The Art of Contemporary Caricature,
          by Steve Heller & Gail Anderson, NY.
1993 The Society of Illustrators 35 Annual
1992 If I Were a Wayboy by John Luttropp, 20 artists illustrate Luttropp’s poems
1992 American Illustration 11, the book
1991 The Society of Illustrators 33 Annual
1990 American Illustration 9, the book
1990 Record Review - Public Enemy, Collage, Rolling Stone 5.17.90 issue
1990 9 Jurors portraits & one chapter opening spread, American Illustration 9
1989 The Society of Illustrators 31 Annual
1989 American Illustration 8, the book
1979 The Society of Illustrators 21 Annual
1977 Playbill, Playboy magazine, December issue
1976 200 Years of American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, NY
1975 Graphis Annual
1974 Communication Arts 7

Teaching/Academia

2001-2014 Professor, MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD
2011 SACI/MICA Florence, Taught Spring semester Independent Studio, Italy
1986-2001 Adjunct Faculty, Parsons School of Design
1998 one semester, competitive merit based, Parsons Faculty Academic Leave
1992-2001 Instructor, Bank Street/Parsons-Summer Masters Program
1996-97 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design

Selected Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago Print & Drawing Permanent Collection
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
George Wendt & Bernadette Birkett, Studio City, CA
Jason Moran, New York, NY
Playboy Enterprises, Chicago, Il
Alan Mandel, Los Angeles, CA
Eugenio Roscigno, Florence, Italy
Edward Pegan, Venice, Italy
Jeffrey Tissing, Dallas, TX
The Estate of Michael Trossman & Wendy Weil, NY NY
Avendui Lacovara, Baltimore, MD
Manuel Barrueco, Stevensville MD.
Ruth & Keith Long, NY NY
George & Ellen Orner, Baltimore, MD
Timothy App, Baltimore, MD
Barbara Nessim, New York, NY
Patrick J Flynn, Madison, WI
Sangram Majumdar, NYC
Credit Mutuel de Bretagne

Education

1969 Northwestern University
1968 The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.
1977 School of Visual Arts, Milton Glaser Summer Workshop
1993 & 96 Parsons School of Design