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Bruce Linn received a BFA (1988) and MFA (1992) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1996, Linn was commissioned by writer, filmmaker, and Los Angeles resident Chris Iovenko to create Building America, a mural-like oil painting composed of nine canvases, each six-by-six-feet (spanning fifty-four feet in its entirety), that traces the history of the United States.
In 2002, Linn accepted an offer of a two-year residency and travel fellowship in Prague (CZ) by Prague resident and philanthropist John Caulkins. During his residency, Linn also taught in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Prague Summer Studio Program.
Linn currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky, where, in addition to his pursuits as an artist, he is the Assistant Director of Galleries for the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville.
Linn's recent works reflect "a darker view of humanity" that he says he encountered in some of the art and other cultural expressions of central Europe during his residency in Prague. According to Linn, the absurdist aesthetic he discovered in Czech capital, inspired him to more freely blur the line between satiric and poetic artistic objectives.
Linn's recent influences include 19th-century Symbolist artists, like Odilon Redon and Arnold Bocklin, and the satiric works of James Ensor and the Czech Illustrators Zdenek Mezl and Pavel Brazda.
© 2001-2009 Bruce Linn