Linda King Ferguson (b. 1954, Battle Creek, MI) thinks of her abstract paintings as social bodies defined by relational determinants. Through a material language of open and closed forms, color gradients, surface depths, and spatial proximities she explores the subjectivity of vulnerability and strength. Ferguson earned a BFA from Alma College, Alma MI, a MA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also studied at Penland School of Crafts and Academia Di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy. Ferguson has an affiliation with Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, Red Arrow, Nashville, TN, and representation from La Fontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. Ahead in 2026, Ferguson has a two person exhibition at Candaro Marble Building Museum, Knoxville, TN and in 2025 she has a solo exhibition, Rhythms and Remedies at Bay College, Escanaba, MI. In 2024, she had a solo exhibition at NY Artists Equity Gallery, An Unthought Logic, and a solo exhibition at Graci Gallery, Kiss the Sky. Also, she has had solo exhibitions at DeVos Art Museum, Channel To Channel, Lipscomb University, and Susan Hensel Online Gallery. Ferguson is currently exhibiting in Red Arrow’s Group exhibitions, Intersection and Hot Summer. She has participated in other group exhibitions at Graci Gallery; Minus Space; New York Artists Equity Gallery; White Columns Online; dodomu Digital Gallery; and Odetta Digital Gallery. Ferguson was awarded residences in 2023 at Press Here Projects; 2009 at Morris Graves Foundation; and 2008, Ragdale Foundation. She also was a resident artist semi-annually from 2013-2017 at Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn, NY. Ferguson was awarded a Personal Development Grant from the State of Michigan in 2015, and a Northern Michigan University Educational Research Grant in 2013. Her work is published in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Vol.113, Presence, Artdose Magazine, and Boulevard Nos.68-69. From 2017- 2023, Ferguson was Founder and Director of The Bakery, a non-profit, artist run project space, Munising, MI. As contingent faculty she taught from 2008-2013 at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI. Ferguson divides her time between studios in Marquette, MI and Nashville, TN.