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Education

1968 B.F.A. The School of The Art Institute of Chicago

1977 School of Visual Arts, Milton Glaser Summer Workshop

1993 and 1996 Parsons School of Design, Imaging/Photoshop classes

Clients

(Work in print and electronic media) 1968 to present includes:

Agency.Com, American Medical Association, The Art Institute of Chicago Children’s Museum, Atlantic Monthly, Audubon Society, NW Ayer, Baltimore magazine, Bantam Books, Beach Culture magazine, Bloomberg Financial Markets, The Boston Globe, Business Week, CBS/Sony, Chicago magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Children’s Television Workshop, Church magazine, City Missionary Society-Boston, CMP Networks, Communications Week, Conrans, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Reports, CUE magazine, Def Jam Records, Drenttel Doyle Partners, Electra Records, Esquire, Fortune, Gin & Co., Guitar World magazine, Hanson Associates, Harcourt Brace, Harpers, Harper/Collins, Hi Fi magazine, In Fashion magazine, Info World, Inside Sports, INX Syndications, JMT/Polygram Records, J Walter Thompson, Keyboard World, The LA Times, Lebhar-Friedman, Los Angeles magazine, Mirabella magazine, Ms., MTV, New York Daily News, New York magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nortre-Dame magazine, Ohio magazine, Pantheon Books, PC magazine, Playbill, Playboy Enterprises, Polygram/Mercury Records, The Progressive, Psychology Today, Que Magazine, Quest 79, React magazine, Rolling Stone, Sony Music, St. Martin’s Press, Salon News, Scott Foresman, Seattle Weekly, Serino/Coyne, Smart Reseller Magazine, Swing Magazine, Tailford Associates-Toledo, Tennis magazine, Troika magazine, The University of Chicago Press, Urbanite magazine, Utne Reader, VH-1, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. Records, Walter Bernard-Milton Glaser Inc., WPIX-NY, WXRT-Chicago.

Professional Publications & Selected Illustrations

2010- October Cover & interior illustrations on The Family, Urbanite magazine

2010- August Cover- Emerging Writers, Urbanite magazine

2009- American Illustration 28(2009), 26(2007), 19, 18, 15, 14, 12, 11, 9, and 8(1989).

2006-09AmericanIllustration Website 1999- Society of Illustrators -The Original Art Childrens Books,

Happy Birthday Frankie

1999- Happy Birthday Frankie by Sarah Weeks, Harper Collins/Laura Geringer,

21collages.

1999- Publishers Weekly, Aug. 2 and Dec. 20.

1997- The Society of Illustrators Annual #39 and 38 (1996), 36, 35, 33, 31 and 21(1979).

1996- Communication Arts Illustration Annual.

1995- Society of Newspaper Design, 17^th International Competition,

Award of Excellence.

1995- Communication Arts Illustration Annual.

1994- Print Regional Design Annual.

1994- New York magazine, April 18, This Week, Warren Linn at

Bergdorf-Goodman for Men.

1993- Free Your Mind published by MTV, 30 artists reflect on Diversity.

1992- Dimensional Illustration, New York, Silver and Bronze Award.

1992- The Savage Mirror, The Art of Contemporary Caricature,

Heller & Anderson, NY.

1992- If I Were a Wayboy by John Luttropp, 20 artists illustrate Luttropp’s poems.

1990- Art Direction magazine Creativity Award.

1990- Public Enemy Rercord Review 5.17.90 issue- Rolling Stone magazine.

1990- Broadcast Designers Association National/International Illustration for Print.

1989- CBS Records Biennial Meeting, 156’x24’ mural, Boca Raton FL

1990- American Illustration 9, Portraits of jurors, chapter opening spread,

and 4 juried pieces.

1977- Playboy magazine, December, Playbill.

1976- The Society of Illustrators 200 Years of American Illustration.

1975- Graphis Annual

1974- Communication Arts 7

Reviews

December 16, 2007 Fall Visual Art, Washiington Post Online, Them:Self, illustrator Warren Linn's collages, paintings and drawings, in the gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art…

October, 2005, Urbanite magazine Contributors Page, Painter, printmaker, art director, and illustrator, Warren Linn illustrated Bill Mesler’s article on the exploration of murder as a health issue…

2004 Baltimore City Paper website, These Commercial Messages, Sketching Out: From his sketchbook works to his commercial pieces, like this illustration made for a New York Times editorial, Warren Linn shows a skill for…

November 2, 2004 PC Today, Warren Linn opens at the Gallery at Pennsylvania College of Technology…Featured artist Warren Linn talks with Kristina Snook-Kohr and Penny Lutz, gallery assistant, during his exhibit's opening…

2004 Another Voice website, Warren Linn · Frances Jetter · David Johnson · J.D. King David Klein · Stephen Kroninger · Anita Kunz · Peter Kuper

2004 Design News MICA Warren Linn has worked for a wide range of major media clients for almost 40 years, including Atlantic, The Boston Globe, CBS/Sony, Chicago Tribune….

Teaching/Academia

2011- Spring semester SACI/MICA Taught: Independent Studio-Florence, Italy,

2001-Present, Maryland Institute College of Art Full-time Faculty

Taught: Illustration Senior Independent Study and Thesis, Sophomore Illustration I & II, and Visual Journalism, Freshman Drawing As Illustration and Drawing I & II, Pre-college Drawing and Painting the Figure in Acrylic, Interpretive Figure.

1986-2001- Parsons School of Design Adjunct Faculty

Taught: Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors: Drawing, Painting, Materials & Methods, Illustration Concepts, Objects and Space, Independent Study, Foundation Drawing

1998- Awarded one semester, competitive merit Parsons Faculty Academic Leave

1997- New School Distinguished Teaching Award

1992-2001-Bank Street/Parsons-Summer Masters Program

Graduate Drawing Studio Concepts

1996-1997- Rhode Island School of Design

Illustration Department, Junior and Senior Drawing

Exhibitions

2011- MICA Faculty Exhibition, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2011- L’Art dans les Cites – Peintres Americains, Group show, Maison de Bretagne, Paris, Fr.

2011- Rolling Stone: Illustrating Music Icons, Group show, The Society of Illustrators, NYC

2011- Incidente/Volere, the Italian sketchbooks, 1 person show,

SACI, Florence, Italy

2011- Keisho Exhibition, 4 collages, Wakaime Art School, Anjo Achi, Japan

2010-11- 4 works, MICA International Affairs office, Baltimore, MD

2010- 100 Artists, 100 Heads for Haiti, Group show, Spur Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2010- Warren Linn & Barry Nemett, 2-Person Working Exhibitions: 6-week Residency,

May/June- City Hall, Pont-Croix, Gallery One, Malestroit, City Hall, Moncontour, France

2009-11- Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, 2 collages, Chicago, Il

2009- Illustrators, Group show, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD

2008- Joe Squared, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2008- MICA Faculty Exhibition, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2008- MICA Sabbatical Exhibition, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2008- Harbor East Festival, Urbanite Tent, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2008- New York, Real and Imagined Artists’ Book, Exhibited Icon 5, NYC

2008- Icon 5-The Road Show 100 Illustrators’ Portfolios, NYC

2007- Them:Self, MICA, One-person show, Baltimore, MD

2007- Erotic Art-One Night Stand, Teavolve, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2007- Rochefort-en-Terre Artists, Roland Park Place, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2006- Recent & Revisted Work, Teavolve, One-person show, Baltimore, MD

2006- Group Show, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

2006- The Ripple Effect, Society of Illustrators, Group show, NYC

2006- Rochefort-en-Terre Residency, Group show, France

2005- SeeHear, Baltimore Magazine Exhibition, Group show, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

2005- 30^th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Group show, Bradley U, IL

2004– MICA Faculty Exhibition, Group show, Baltimore, MD

2004- Illustrators Who Teach, Society of Illustrators, Group show, NYC

2004- LeftRight, Pennsylvania College of Technology, One-person show, Williamsport, PA

2004- Another Voice, Political Illustration from The Progressive, Group show, MICA

2004- Commissioned Non Commissioned Group show, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2003- Joe Ciardiello/Warren Linn, Two-person show, WBGO, Newark, NJ

2003- LeftRight, MICA, One-person show, Baltimore, MD

2001- The Innocence of Ornaments Group show, Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY

2001- Group Show, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY

2001- MICA Artafare, Benefit Auction, artwork donation, Baltimore, MD

2001- MICA Faculty Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2000- Happy Birthday Frankie Marion Vannett Ridgeway Honor Book Award

2000- Mileage Rethink One Person Show, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY

2000- 6 Screen Prints, Peer Gallery, Piermont, NY

2000- MICA Faculty Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2000- Impressions: Contemporary Prints, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

1999- Mica Faculty Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

1999- Jazzical Images X 4 NY Artists, The Jazz Gallery, NYC

1998- Myths, Metaphors & Icons, Juror’s Award, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

1997-98- The Society of Illustrators National Traveling Exhibition

1997- A Tribute to Jazz Piano, Group Show, The Jazz Gallery, NYC

1997- Society of Publication Designers Benefit Auction, Artwork donation, NYC

1996- International Jazz Art Competition, 2^nd Place Juror’s Award, The Jazz Gallery, NYC

1996- Selected Faculty Small Works, Deans Office, Parsons School of Design, NYC

1995- It’s All Relative, Juror’s Award, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

1995- National Juried Fine Arts Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

1995- Magnum Opiate, The Knitting Factory, NY

1995- Texas National ‘95’, Leon Golub Juror, Steven F. Austin Sate U., Nacogdoches, TX

1995- MTV’s Free Your Mind Art Exhibit, The Art Directors Club, NYC

1994-95- Almost Normal: Album cover art for Jazz, Group show, Parsons Gallery, NYC

1994- Published/Unpublished, One Person show, Bergdorf Goodman Men, NYC

1994- Spots 7, The Society of Publication Designers, NYC

1991- Art of Tryon’s Private Collections, The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC

1991- Spots 5, The Society of Publication Designers, NYC

1989- CBS Records Biennial Meeting mural-156’x24’, Boca Raton, FL

1989- Warren Linn, One person show, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA

1985- Warren Linn/Bob Webb, Two person show, Esther Rand Gallery, NYC

1976- 200 Years of American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, NYC

1975- Chicago ’75, Group Show, Artists Guild of Chicago, IL

1973- Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Second Prize, Artists Guild of Chicago, IL

1973- The Art Institute of Chicago Print & Drawing Collection purchase, Chicago

1972- The Artist Guild of Chicago Print & Drawing Exhibit, Group show, Chicago

1968- Body Show, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1966- The Chicago & Vicinity Show, The Illinois Coolbaugh Prize,

The Art Institute of Chicago

Additional Professional Experience

1980-1988 Keith Sheridan Associates Inc., NYC, Graphic Designer, Art Director

Accounts included Meredith Corporation, Random House, New York City Ballet

Visiting Talks, Presentations, Critiques, Workshops and Juries include:

2011 Freshman Admissions Auditions Panel, Carver Center for the Arts, Towson, MD

2010 Freshman Admissions Auditions Panel, 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

2006,07,08-Grants Jury, Ruth Chenven Foundation Artist’s Awards

2004-06 Illustrators Who Teach Conference, Society of Illustrators, NYC

2005 Graduate Critiques, Towson University, MD

2004 MICA Plan for the 21^st Century, Cosmopolitan Club, NYC

2004 Visiting critic, Parsons School of Design

2000 and 2001 -Westchester Schools, NY “Storyfest”

Visiting Children’s Book Illustrator, Presentation

1997 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore