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Artist Statement

“Making art is a way of making sense of my experience. Looking is a form of listening and taking in the world. I photograph to make tangible this act of looking and feeling. Simply calling attention to the interaction of light on the surface of things has the potential to transform one’s apperception of those things and events, just as focused attention can transform thought. Over time, images, words, sounds and artifacts gathered from my daily experience are reworked in my studio. The resulting artwork is an expression of my desire to apprehend and give form to moments and events of significance.”—2019

About

Artist-photographer Linda Cummings (b. Valley Forge, PA) studied fine arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and Rutgers University. She is a pioneer in the development of photography-based, mixed-media art. Cummings is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, Yaddo Artist Colony, the Vermont Studio Center and the New Jersey Printmaking Council. Her work has been featured in leading fine art publications such as BLIND SPOT magazine, Graver La Lumiere exhibition catalogue, and the “Director’s Cut” of APERTURE. Cummings’ work is included in many private and museum collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; Muskarell Museum, Williamsburg, VA; NYU/Langone, New York, NY; New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, NY; Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; Museo Nazionale della Fotographia de Brescia, Brescia, Italy; and Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland. Since 1996, she has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York City. Cummings lives and works in New York City and Branford, Connecticut.

Slippages, 2023 | 89 Greene at signs and symbols | New York, NY

Vision/Sound: Allentown’s ’80s Arts Scene Revisited, 2017 | Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center Arts, Muhlenberg College | Allentown, PA

Substance of Light, 2017 | Farm River Studio | Branford, CT

Revisiting South Bethlehem, 2016 | Lehigh University Art Gallery | Lehigh, PA

Natural Allusions, 2015 | Addison/Ripley Fine Art | Washington, D.C.

Surface Notes, 2014 | New Arts Program | Kutztown, PA

Touching the Farm River, 2014 | Smilow Hospital | New Haven, CT

Waterlines, 2013 dm|contemporary | New York, NY

Stirring the Waters, 2010 | dm|contemporary | New York, NY

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Slippages: Photographs by Linda Cummings, edited by Kathy Battista, introduction by Linda Cummings, texts by Nancy Princenthal, Kathy Battista, Elise Morrison and Emna Zghal; Skira, 2025.

Casting Off: Linda Cummings’s Slippages, Nancy Princenthal. 2020

Stirring the Waters, Exhibition Catalogue. dm|contemporary, New York, NY. 2010

“Ovulator Series”, Blindspot, Issue #15. 2000

“In the Name of the Daughter”, Limited Edition (Photogravure). Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, D.C. 1997

Graver la Lumiere, Exhibition Catalogue. Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland. 2003

“Ovulator Series”, Limited Edition (Baseball Cards). The Whitney Museum of American Art (ISP), New York, NY. 1997

“Making Waves”, Linda Cummings. Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis, ed. George Hagman. 2017

“Beauty, Longing, and Fear”, Linda Cummings/Katy Martin. Making Sense: Beauty, Creativity and Healing, ed. Bandy Lee, Nancy Olson, Thomas P. Duffy. 2014