Linda Nguyen Lopez (b. 1981, Visalia, California) is a first-generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. The artist is based in Fayetteville, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.
Lopez’s work has been exhibited at and is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City; the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, and others. Lopez’s work has also been exhibited at the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; R & Company, New York; Fisher Parrish, New York, and more. The artist has been invited to residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, and the Center for Craft, Asheville, among others, and she received the United States Artist Fellowship in 2024, plus the Connor Fellowship from the University of Arkansas in 2026. She is represented by David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, and Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami.