Meg Linton

Linton received a B.A. in English from the University of California at Irvine in 1989, and a M.F.A. in Exhibition design from California State University, Fullerton in 1995. In 2007 she completed the Museum Leadership Program at the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University.

In 2012, she completed the Leadership Academy, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), Kellogg School of Management, North Western University.^[11]

Starting in 1999, Linton was the executive director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum for five years and has held many other curatorial and teaching positions in California and New York City.^[12] She was the curator and the "Director of Galleries and Exhibitions" at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles from September 2003 to May 2014.^[12][13][14] She served as head of Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts in 2016.^[15]

Linton was a co-founder and curator of the Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions in Venice Beach and Costa Mesa, California. She has served on the executive committee for the Southern California Chapter of Art Table and was a board member of the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce.^[16]

Many of her essays are available on Academia.edu.^[17]