Linn Meyers

Linn Meyers (born 1968), known professionally as linn meyers, is a visual artist based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She is known for dense, intricate drawings, paintings, installations and prints that range in scale from page-sized images to large pieces on Mylar and panel to monumental, site-specific wall works. Her art is rooted in a process of repetitive drawing—thousands of hand-drawn marks that come together to form rhythmic, patterned wholes and serve as records of their own making. While ostensibly abstract, her works are also widely suggestive of natural phenomena and fundamental aspects of the universe, from fingerprints to galaxies, and cellular patterns to tidal waves. Curator Anne Ellegood observed, "She is after a purity of making—a physical process that does not hide behind illusionism—a directness wherein the materiality of the work is evident and … all the mystery is removed so that it is what it is." Meyers has created site-specific wall drawings at cultural institutions including the Hammer Museum, The Phillips Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Columbus Museum (Georgia). She has also exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kreeger Museum and Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. Her work belongs to the public collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection, among others. In 2023, Meyers received the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.