MARKUS LINNENBRINK
b. 1961, GermanyMarkus Linnenbrink attended Gesamthochschule in Kassel and later the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
In 2016, Linnenbrink completed two permanent public installations: an outdoor wallpainting at SLS Brickell Hotel and Residences, Miami FL, and a series of paintings for 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY.
Recent solo exhibitions include WHENTHEPASTWASPRESENTSOWILLBENOW, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; THEFIRSTISCRAZYANDTHESECONDISNUTS, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI; THEGRASSISALWAYSGREENER, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Spain; THERIDENEVERENDS, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA; day after day it appears, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and so here’s what you gonna do, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
Recent group exhibitions include Deck Voyage, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Necmi Sönmez; Revisiones, Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru; Off The Wall!, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany; Selections of the Cleve Carney Collection, Cleve Carney Art Gallry, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; 3+4 B/W, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; and ROY G BIV, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY; among others.
His work is included in the permanent collections of The Hague, Ministry of Culture, The Netherlands; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH; Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany; NBC Rockefeller Center, New York, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; and UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, CA; among others.
Linnenbrink lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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