about

Linda Simmel (born in Los Angeles) is a Bay Area artist. Her art practice includes painting, drawing and printmaking. Simmel’s works explore the influence of history on a psyche and subsequent feelings of longing. Simmel received her BFA from the University of California at Berkeley and was represented by Takada Gallery in San Francisco. She spent a decade traveling to and showing in and around Berlin, becoming an international particpant in the newly formed artist collective “Atelierhaus Panzerhalle e.V.” which was set in a tank repair workshop and ruinous surrounding barracks of a military base in the forests of Potsdam, Germany. It has developed into the ongoing “Neues Atelierhaus Panzerhalle”. In 2012 Simmel was an artist resident at the Baer Art Center in Iceland, in 2013 an artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, and she has been an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California since 2007. Linda Simmel is included in the permanent collections of the Auchenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Saint Mary’s College Museim of Art in Moraga, and the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. Linda currently has a home studio in Sonoma, California.