Topher Lineberry

Topher Lineberry is a multidisciplinary artist who is promiscuous in form and method. They have shown work at over 50 exhibitions in galleries and museums across the U.S. and internationally, and presented academic research at colleges, universities, and archives. Lineberry was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, while having spent considerable parts of their life in the Blue Ridge Mountains. They earned a Masters of Fine Arts at City University of New York, Hunter College, in New York City. Lineberry has published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Black Mountain College Studies; received the Tufts/SMFA Alum Traveling Fellowship; was a finalist for the 2023 Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant; and was most recently a Lecturer in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Lineberry’s work is soon to be published through Amherst College Press in the upcoming volume, Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Wit, Play, and Environmental Destruction in North American Contemporary Art & Visual Culture edited by Maria Lux and Jessica Landau.