b. 1990
Greensboro, North Carolina
EDUCATION
CUNY Hunter College - New York, NY - MFA - Art - 2021
Tufts University + School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA - BFA - Art - 2015
University of North Carolina Asheville - Asheville, NC - 2012-2013
Kansas City Art Institute - Kansas City, MO - 2009-2012
North Carolina Governor's School - Winston-Salem, NC - 2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Giant-Sized Annual - Lump Gallery - Raleigh, NC
2021 - Kinstitution - 205 Hudson Gallery - New York, NY
2017 - Rapture - Hartnett Gallery - Rochester, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - The Stories we Tell Ourselves - Longwood Art Gallery - Curated by Dana Notine - Bronx, NY
2023 - Think Before You Print - Empfangshalle Gallery - Munich, Germany
2023 - Wussies Networking: Some Queer Sensibilities - New York LGBT Center - Curated by Tannon Reckling - New York, NY
2023 - Lavender Mountain: An Exhibition of Queer Appalachian Art - VAE Raleigh - Curated by Ant Lobo - Raleigh, NC
2023 - Southern Futurisms - FSU Museum of Fine Arts - Juried by TK Hall and Dana-Marie Lemmer - Tallahassee, Florida
2022 - In With the Old - St. John’s University - Curated by Sophia Ma and Eliana Blechman - Staten Island, NY
2022 - P.A.D. + Dirt Library - East Village Zine Fair - Printed Matter Inc - New York, NY
2022 - Faculty Biennial - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts/Smith Gallery - Appalachian State University - Boone, NC
2022 - Liber, Liber - P.A.D. Gallery at New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair - New York, NY
2022 - In With the Old - SUNY Purchase - Curated by Sophia Ma and Eliana Blechman - Purchase, NY
2021 - In With the Old - Walter Elwood Museum - Curated by Patrick Mohundro, Sophia Ma, Eliana Blechman - Amsterdam, NY 2021 - Müncheon Monopoly - P.A.D. at Galerie Christine Mayer - Curated by Kristina Schmidt & Patrick Mohundro - Munich, DE 2021 - Turn and Face... - MFA Thesis Exhibition - 205 Hudson Gallery - New York, NY
2020 - Over Yonder - Hand Art Center - Curated by Luca Molnar - DeLand, FL
2020 - Trust Fall - Hunter College - New York, NY - Online
2020 - Fort Night - Elsewhere Museum - Curated by Matthew Giddings - Greensboro, NC - Online
2019 - Criminalize This! - Amos Eno Gallery - Curated by Mary Gagler and Lorenzo Triburgo - Brooklyn, NY
2019 - Performance - “Girlfriend” in Text Play by Rebecca Baldwin - 205 Hudson St. - New York, NY
2018 - Annual Benefit Show - Children’s Museum of the Arts - New York, NY
2018 - Act I, Scene II - 205 Hudson Gallery - New York, NY
2018 - Postcards from the Edge - Visual AIDS at Metro Pictures - New York, NY
2018 - POPS Crawl - Wall Street Plaza - Curated by Claire Bishop and Paul Ramirez Jonas - New York, NY
2017 - Hydra Effect - Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance at Midway Studios - Juried by Silví Naçí - Boston, MA
2017 - Rapture - Hartnett Gallery - University of Rochester - Rochester, NY [SOLO EXHIBITION]
2017 - Photo Alternatives - Ohio University School of Art + Design - Juried by Hans Gindlesberger - Athens, OH
2017 - NXNE - Brattleboro Museum and Art Center - Juried by Bernard Yenelouis - Brattleboro, VT
2016 - Noise/Touch - Boston Center for the Arts - Curated by Nabil Vega and Chloe Wong - Boston, MA
2016 - Mux Video Art Festival - AAAC Gallery - Asheville NC
2016 - Boston Biennial 4 - Atlantic Works Gallery - Boston, MA
2016 - Art in the Dark - Femme Factory - Jamaica Plain, MA
2016 - Post-Gay? - Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance at Distillery Gallery - Boston, MA
2015 - Sports of All Sorts - Elsewhere Museum - Greensboro, NC
2015 - Somebody Else’s Problem - Whitespace Gallery - Curated by Rachel Reese - Atlanta, GA
2015 - So Hot Right Now - University of Arizona School of Art - Curated by Courtney Faith Richter - Tempe, AZ
2015 - What are you Watching? - Stairwell Gallery - Bloomsburg, PA
2015 - Strategic Plan 2025 - Thesis Exhibition - School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA
2015 - Strobe Network - Flux Factory - Long Island City, NY
2015 - This Into That - Nave Gallery - Somerville, MA
2014 - Platinum - Cambridge Art Association - Juried by Alise Upitis - Cambridge, MA
2014 - Silence? - Gallery Dust - The Internet - 2014-present
2014 - [ME]mentos - School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA
2014 - A Collage Show - Metrospace - East Lansing, MI
2014 - Canapé Vol. 2 - Canapé - Wilmington, NC
2014 - Awesomeblahj - Piano Factory - Boston, MA
2013 - Discrit 89Plus: Younger Than Rihanna - Dis Magazine - The Internet
2012 - Wet Pain – 20 Jay Street – Brooklyn, NY
2011 - Reaffirming Structure – City Ice Arts – Kansas City, MO
2011 - Performance - White Cube Roller Rink: A Leisurely Act of Free Labor - The Studios Inc - Kansas City, MO
2008 - Animation Screening - The Green Bean - Greensboro, NC
2008 - Clotheslines - Elsewhere Museum – Greensboro, NC
2008 - Elsewhen Meanwise Otherwhere – Achilles House - Auckland, New Zealand
WRITING AND RESEARCH
Author - “My Brush, Your Hand, Our Plants: A Proposal for Coalition” in Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play, and Environmental Destruction in Contemporary Art & Visual Culture edited by Maria Lux and Jessica Landau - Amherst College Press - 2026 [FORTHCOMING]
Author - “Exhibition Review: Vera B. Williams at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center” - Burnaway: Contemporary Art From the South - April 2024
Author - “Black Mountain College: Eclipsing the Local in Artworld Memory” - Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Volume 13 - April 2022
Primary Researcher - "Lincoln Electric Park: A Submission to the Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City, MO" - 85 Pages - Archive Submission - 2017
AWARDS + HONORS + RESIDENCIES
- Grant Finalist - Marjorie Strider Foundation - New York, NY - 2023
- Grant Recipient - SMFA at Tufts University Alumni Traveling Fellowship - $10,000 - Boston, MA - 2022
- Grant Recipient - CUNY Hunter College - College of Arts and Sciences Thesis Support Grant - $500 - New York, NY - 2020
- Artist-in-Residence - Ace Hotel - New York, NY - 2018
- Commission - Olympic Failures for ‘Sports of All Sorts’ - Elsewhere Museum - Greensboro, NC - 2015
- Chan Sculpture Award - School of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA - 2015
- Selected Participant - Harvard University VES + Museum School Critical Exchange - Boston, MA - 2015
- Artist-in-Residence - New York Studio Residency Program - Brooklyn, NY - 2012
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Jill Tuthill | Longwood Art Gallery Exhibition Explores Memory, Time & Storytelling | Bronx Times | 01.30.24
- Louis Bury | The NYC Exhibition Where Works Cost up to $75 | Hyperallergic | 11.16.22
- Dana Notine | Posterity for P.A.D; The Little Pop-up Gallery That Could | White Hot Magazine | February 2022
- Billy Anania | Hunter MFA Grads Mull the Fluid Nature of Time | Hyperallergic | 06.27.21
- Hauser & Wirth Gallery | Topher Lineberry - Hunter College MFA Spring 2021 Spotlight | May 2021
- Gui Portel | Christopher Lineberry’s ‘Notes from Metropolis’ | Engaging Collections | April 2020
- Luca Molnar | “Over Yonder” Exhibition Catalog | Hand Art Center | February 2020
- Rebecca Rafferty | ART | “Rapture” | Rochester City Newspaper | 03.08.17
- BMAC | Two New Exhibits Open on BMAC on Jan. 14 | Brattleboro Reformer | 01.17.17
- Thomas Guzzio | Olympian Failures | Prodigal’s Chair: The Wrong Issue | December 2015
- Courtney Faith Richter | So Hot Right Now Curatorial Essay and Publication | University of Arizona | June 2015
- Dennis Meade and Sean Kay | Queer Nightmares and Anxieties | Nancy Issue 1 | Summer 2015
- Chase Carter | Saving the Archive | Strategic Plan Exhibition Publication | 5.12.15
- Carrie Schneider | Excavating Elsewhere | Temporary Art Review | 11.19.12
- John White | Kulturpark | Brown University Independent | 04.13.12
- Robyn Gee | Artists Take Back Abandoned Amusement Park in Berlin | Huffington Post | 09.09.11
- Kyle Chayka | Transforming an Abandoned Berlin Amusement Park | Blouin Artinfo | 08.12.11
- Admin | Artists Activate Abandoned Amusement | Artlurker | 08.16.10
- Gabriel Baker | Splice Magazine: The Best Music Videos of the Year, Part 1 | Splice Today | 12.17.08
- Becky Lang | Splice Premiere: Chris Lineberry | Splice Today | 08.21.08
- Jeremy Krinsley | Videohippos MS Paint Explosion by 17-Year-Old | Impose Magazine | 06.12.08
TALKS
Appalachian State University - Boone, NC - 2023
University of North Carolina Asheville - Asheville, NC - 2021
Elsewhere Museum - Greensboro, NC - 2020 - online
University of Rochester - Rochester, NY - 2017
Boston University - Boston, MA - 2016
Converse College - Spartanburg, SC - 2016
Southern Humanities Conference - Louisville, KY - 2016
North Carolina Governor's School - Winston-Salem, NC - 2013 + 2014
Elsewhere Museum - Greensboro, NC - 2012
TEACHING + EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
Curriculum Development - Department of Art - Appalachian State University - Boone, NC - Nov. 2023-Jan. 2024
- Collaborated with Department of Art faculty, Bailey Arend, to develop curriculum, assignment, and presentations for Craft History art history course.
Lecturer - Department of Art - Appalachian State University - Boone, NC - Spring 2022-August 2023
- Spring 2023 Courses Taught: Introduction to Visual Arts [3 Sections]
- Fall 2022 Courses Taught: Introduction to Visual Arts [3 Sections]
- Spring 2022 Courses Taught: Foundations Drawing I [2 Sections] + Introduction to Visual Arts [3 Sections]
Adjunct Professor - Department of Art - Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute - Boone, NC - Fall 2022-May 2023
- Spring 2023 Courses Taught: Painting I and II [1 section] + Art Appreciation [1 section]
- Fall 2022 Courses Taught: Drawing I and II [1 section]
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Paul Ramírez Jonas - Hunter College - New York, NY - Spring 2020
Private Tutor - Studio Art and Art History - Residential Family - New York, NY - 2019-2020
Teaching Artist - Children’s Museum of the Arts - New York, NY - 2017-2019
Substitute Teacher - Town of Brookline - Brookline, MA - 2016-2017
After-School Educator - Lincoln Extended Day - Brookline, MA - 2015-2017
Teaching Assistant - Art - North Carolina Governor’s School - Winston-Salem, NC - 2013+2014
Student Selection Committee - Missouri Scholars Academy - Columbia, MO - 2011
Education Intern - National Museum of Toys and Miniatures - Kansas City, MO - 2010
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