Linda Nguyen Lopez is a first-generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. Lopez received a BA from California State University of Chico and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, New Zealand, England and throughout the United States including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Craft Contemporary Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Long Beach Museums of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, Museum of Art and Design, The Hole, David B. Smith Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, and the Red Arrow Gallery.  

Lopez is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. In 2016, Lopez received the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Grant to be an artist-in-residence at C.R.E.T.A. Rome Residency Program. She is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL.