Occupation: Kinetic Artist, Sculptor Media: Kinetics, Metals, Installations. Born New York, New York.
Education Ossip Zadkine Studio, Paris. Sculpture Center, New York.
Honorary Degrees Loyola Univ, New Orleans, 2004, Doctor of Letters.
Teaching Positions Vis artist, Newcomb Art Sch, Tulane Univ, 81 & Univ Maine, 88.
Business and Professional Positions Vis critic, Tulane Univ Sch Archit, 67-68; fellow, Virginia Center Creative Arts, 81.
Commissioned Works Kinetic sculpture, City of Virginia Beach, 89; City of Oxnard, California, 90; Hofstra Univ, New York, 90; Sterling Drug Co, Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Daytona Beach Airport, Florida; Financial Guaranty Insurance Co, New York; Neiman Marcus, Short Hills, New Jersey; L R Nelson Corp, Peoria, Ill, 95; Menorah Hosp, Kansas City, Missouri, 96; Izumisano Hosp, Japan, 96; Osaka Dome, Japan, 97; Stirling Corp, Irving, Texas, 2000; Mitre Corp, McLean, Virginia, 2001; Knight Oil Co, Lafayette, La, 2005; Order of St Lazarus, New Orleans, 2007.
Public Works Nat Collection America Art, Washington, DC; New Orleans Museum Art; Norton Art Galleries, West Palm Beach, Florida; Huntington Mus Art, West Virginia; Walter P Chrysler Mus, Norfolk, Virginia; Mus Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Fine Arts Mus South, Mobile, Alabama; Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida; Ogden Mus Southern Art, New Orleans.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 78, 81, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, 82, retrospective, New Orleans Museum Art, 96, Imperial Calcasieu Mus, Lake Charles, La, 97, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, 99, 2003, 2005, Kouros Gallery, New York, 2000, 2006, Masur Mus, Monroe, La, 2001, Meadows Mus, 2002; Group exhibs, Int Sculpture Conf Exhib, 80; GSA Art in Archit, Nat Collection Fine Art, 80; World Expo, Brisbane, Australia, 88; Alexandria Mus, La, 89; Mus SE Texas, Beaumont, 91; Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida, 92; Arthur Roger, New Orleans, 93, 99, 2003; Kouros Gallery, New York, 2000, 2006; Meadows Mus, Shreveport, La, 2001; Masur Mus, Monroe, La, 2001; Arthur Roger; Kouros Gallery, 2005; Pensacola Mus Art, Florida, 2007; Century Association, New York, 2007.
Bibliography Pierce (author), Lin Emery's aquamobiles, Art Int, 69; Roger Green (author), The kinetic sculpture of Lin Emery, Arts Mag, 12/79; Bill Goliantly (author), Tubular Bells, Horizon, 4/85; Josef Marker (author), Lin Emery, InSite, 90; V Watson-Jones (author), Contemporary America Woman Sculptors; Charlotte Rubenstein (author), America Women Artists; Edward Lucie-Smith (author), Lin Emery: Borrowing the Forces of Nature, 96; Judy Collischan (author), Welded Sculpture of 20th Century, 2000.
Publications Co-auth, Kinesone I, Leonardo, Vol 19, Issue No 3.
Honors and Awards Mayor's Award Excellence in the Arts, New Orleans, 80; Young Womens Club America Role Model Award, 89; Lazlo Aranyi Award, Public lic Art, 90; Grand Prize, Public Art, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 97; Gov's Arts Award, 2001; Role Model Award, Young Leadership Coun, New Orleans, 2003; Order St Lazarus companionate of Merit, 2004; S Simon Sculpture Award, Nat Acad Mus, New York, 2005.
Memberships Sculptors Guild New York; Int member Royal Soc Britain Sculptors; Century Association New York; Int Women's Forum; Nat Acad.
Dealers Kouros Gallery 23 E 73rd St New York New York 10021; Arthur Roger Gallery 432 Julia St New Orleans LA 70130.
