Linda Nguyen Lopez is a first-generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Lopez’s abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. She holds a BFA from California State University of Chico and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her works are included in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Springfield Art Museum, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, and other public and private collections. She has exhibited at the Craft Contemporary Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, David B. Smith Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, and the Museum of Art and Design. Lopez is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.