Virga Gallery

Biography

American artist, Linda Alterwitz (born 1960), has been making work that combines art and science for the past twenty years of a forty-year art career. Her work has evolved into visualising the unseen systems that shape our world, encouraging dialogue around choice, trust, and collective experience. Thinking about the unseen connections bridging humanity, technology, and the natural world, while making the decision to combine art and science in her artwork has led Alterwitz to engage in debates on personal agency. This has led to increased attention and visibility for her work in the last ten years, and there has been significant growth in the last five years.

Alterwitz’s reflection on Covid-19, Injection Site, will be on exhibit at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, KS (2026) and her first published monograph, Injection Site, is currently in production with MW Editions, New York, NY (2026). Alterwitz has been in a number of museum shows including, Survival of the Joshua Tree, Getty Initiative, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA (S. Khalsa, curator, 2024); and Size Matters, Athenaeum Art Center, San Diego, CA (C. Dix, curator, 2024). Art + Science, Fotofest, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX (D. Kiel, curator, 2022). Breath Taking, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (K. Ware, curator, 2021), amongst many others. In this period, Alterwitz had several notable solo exhibitions including, Injection Site, at the Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (V. Zavataro, curator, 2023) and Self Without Interpretation, a separate solo exhibition in the same year at Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (V. Zavataro, curator, 2023). Sanctuary, a solo exhibition at Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (B. Hickey, curator, 2022). Healing Powers, a solo exhibition at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (C. Yates, curator, 2019), among many others.

Alterwitz’s work is held in many public and private collections including, Institute of Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Getty Research Institute, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Hilliard Museum of Art, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; Museum of Fine Arts, Hirsch Library Collections, Houston, TX; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, and many others.