ABOUT
Madeline McLinden (They/Them) is a queer non-binary visual artist based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, that works primarily with photography, video and text based artworks. They graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Film at the Maryland Institute College of Art in December of 2022.
Madeline has received many scholarships and awards, some of which include the Leonard L. Grief Scholarship in both 2021 and 2022, The Netherwood/Riser Memorial Scholarship for Photography in 2022, and the GO-A Opportunity Award in 2022 to fund their summer internship with Guggenheim Fellow, Angelo Madsen Minax, to assist with production of his new film in San Francisco, California. Madeline has also had their short documentary film, DO US PART, premiere at the MICA-JHU Film Festival in 2022.
After they graduated, they were an artist-in-residence at AiR BKN, run by artist and curator Anna Viola Hallberg, located in the Northern Archipelag of Stockholm called where the sea meets the forest. They explored the concept of flesh and soil through analog photography.
Their art practice centers around themes of documentation and archiving as well as the physical effects of the passing of time. They work with experimental methods, such as shooting with expired film, creating light leaks, processing color film as black and white and manipulating negatives in the darkroom.
Madeline has received many scholarships and awards, some of which include the Leonard L. Grief Scholarship in both 2021 and 2022, The Netherwood/Riser Memorial Scholarship for Photography in 2022, and the GO-A Opportunity Award in 2022 to fund their summer internship with Guggenheim Fellow, Angelo Madsen Minax, to assist with production of his new film in San Francisco, California. Madeline has also had their short documentary film, DO US PART, premiere at the MICA-JHU Film Festival in 2022.
After they graduated, they were an artist-in-residence at AiR BKN, run by artist and curator Anna Viola Hallberg, located in the Northern Archipelag of Stockholm called where the sea meets the forest. They explored the concept of flesh and soil through analog photography.
Their art practice centers around themes of documentation and archiving as well as the physical effects of the passing of time. They work with experimental methods, such as shooting with expired film, creating light leaks, processing color film as black and white and manipulating negatives in the darkroom.