BIO
Topher Lineberry is a multidisciplinary artist who is promiscuous in form and method. He has shown work at galleries and museums across the U.S. and internationally, and presented academic research at colleges, universities, and archives. Lineberry was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, while having spent considerable parts of their life in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts at Hunter College in New York City.
Lineberry has written and published for Burnaway and the peer-reviewed Journal of Black Mountain College Studies; received the Tufts/SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship; and was a finalist for the Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant. In 2026, his work will appear in the upcoming book, Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play, and Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture, edited by Maria Lux and Jessica Landau published by Amherst College Press. Lineberry has held teaching positions as an Adjunct Instructor at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, and as a Lecturer in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.