Linda Fantuzzo’s childhood home is Endicott, New York. While in high school, Linda knew she wanted to be a painter and chose to study the classical techniques of painting and graphics at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. 1968-1973. After her formal training she worked non-objectively in various media for over 10 years. She then decided to return to painting imagery of landscape, interiors, structures and still life. Linda considers herself a general painter. It is the quality of light and atmosphere that permeates her work no matter the subject.

Linda and her husband, Edward Warmuth, reside in Mt. Pleasant.  She works full time in her downtown Charleston studio in the college district. Fantuzzo is active within the arts community. She was invited to serve on the panel for the SC State Arts Commission Acquisitions Committee for two years. She has served on the Advisory Board for The Halsey Institute and the steering committee for the Trident Region Arts & Culture Plan. Linda has been a juror for the Charleston City Art Gallery, the Charleston Artists League and the public library. In 2000, Fantuzzo co-curated an exhibition titled “Sehnsucht, The Art of Pati Croffead”, and in 2002, she was the project director for “Larger Than Life: A Second Story Show” which was sponsored by the Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs. The exhibition was featured during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Fantuzzo has shown her work in numerous solo exhibitions throughout her career. Her paintings are represented in the collections of the Greenville County Museum, SC, the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC; the South Carolina State Arts Commission Collection; The Burroughs –Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; the River Course and Cassique Golf Clubs of Kiawah, SC; and the Doonbeg Golf Club, County Clare, Ireland. Her paintings are represented in many public, corporate and private collections through out the US and Europe.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 The Color of Surface, Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Charleston, SC
2010 The Space Between, Sumter County Art Gallery, Sumter, SC
2010 The Space Between: Linda Fantuzzo, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
2008 Edges: Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo, Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Charleston, SC
2007 Atmosphere, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2004 Oblique Signs: Linda Fantuzzo, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC
2004 Painted Landscapes and Still Lifes, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
2003 New Paintings, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2002 Spring Island Series, University of South Carolina at Beaufort, Beaufort, SC
2001 A Painter’s Work, Daniel Island Club, Daniel Island, SC
2001 Paintings of Maine, Spring Island Art Barn, Spring Island, SC
2000 Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, SC
2000 The Work of Linda Fantuzzo, River Course Club, Kiawah Island, SC
2000 Recent Works, Morris Gallery, Columbia, SC
1998 Works on Paper, Art Thomas Gallery, Charleston, SC
1996 Paintings of Linda Fantuzzo, University of South Carolina at Sumter, Sumter, SC
1997 Theater Art Galleries, High Point, SC
1992 Linda Fantuzzo: Paintings, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1992 New Works: Linda Fantuzzo, Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County, Camden, SC
1990 Still Lifes by Linda Fantuzzo, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1988 Large Works on Paper, Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1986 Drawings, City Gallery, Charleston, SC
1986 New Works, Jan Goin Gallery, Charleston, SC
1977 Metal Assemblages, Gallery 45, Charleston, SC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Framing Space: Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker and Manning Williams, Goodall Gallery, Columbia College,    Columbia, SC
2007 The Changing Face of Charleston, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC
2005 Helping Hands: An Artist’s Debut Among Friends, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC
2004 Framing A Vision: Linda Fantuzzo & Manning Williams, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
2003 Contemporary Charleston 2003, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC            
2002 Larger Than Life, City Gallery/Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
1999 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the Twentieth Century in South Carolina Art, South Carolina State     Museum, Columbia, SC
1999 Painters in Italy, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1997 Dipinto In Italia…, Theater Arts Gallery, High Point, NC
1997 Selections from the SC Arts Commission Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
1997 Three Charleston Artists, Anderson County Arts Center, Anderson, SC
1997 Selections from the South Carolina Arts Commission Collection, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum , SC
1997 Opening exhibition, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
1996 Signs of Contemporary Art, South Carolina State Museum, SC
1996 Women’s Work, Columbia College, SC
1994 Lure of the Lowcountry, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1991 Contemporary Charleston, Gibbes Museum of Art. Traveled to Anderson County Art Center, Anderson, SC; Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
1979 Fantuzzo, Michel & Williams, City Gallery, Charleston, SC

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Medical University of South Carolina, Contemporary Carolina Collection, Charleston, South Carolina
Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina
South Carolina State Arts Commission, Columbia, South Carolina
Spring Island Trust, Spring Island, South Carolina
Bank of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Doonbeg Golf Club, County Clare, Ireland
Kiawah Development Partners, Charleston, SC
Treleys Investment Co., Columbia, SC
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough LLP,  Charleston, SC
Evans, Carter, Kunes & Bennett PA,  Charleston, SC
Auberge Hotel at Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton, SC

Education

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fines Arts  - 1968-1973, Philadelphia, PA

The College of Charleston – 1980, Charleston, SC