Judy Linn (b. 1947, Detroit, MI) lives and works between New York City and upstate New York. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions since 1980 in addition to being featured in numerous international group exhibitions. Her acclaimed monograph Patti Smith 1969 – 1976: Photographs by Judy Linn was published by Abrams Image in 2011. Linn has received various awards such as an Arts and Letters Award in Art (2013); a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Photography (2009); and an Anonymous was a Woman Grant (2006). A respected teacher, she has been on the faculty of renowned institutions such as Bard College, Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts and Vassar College among others.