Hali Linn (she/they) (b. 1987, Bartlesville, OK, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, video, sculpture, and text. Linn’s practice explores the relationship between personal experience and public life. She investigates how systems of power become lived experience, shaping identity, memory, and belonging through everyday gestures and material culture. Working experimentally across media, they use the studio as a site of research where making becomes a process of questioning rather than illustrating ideas. Her work invites sustained attention to the spaces where the intimate and the political converge.
Linn received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from Oklahoma State University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions including We the People (Contemporary Arts of Tulsa), Carving Connections (The Alternative Art School), and DB3 (The Well, Brooklyn). They are currently developing new bodies of work that expand painting as an interdisciplinary practice, exploring democracy, collective care, and the politics of everyday life.
Linn is based in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.