Ruth Lingen lives and works in New York City, where she has established a distinguished thirty-year career as a master printer, papermaker, and book artist. She has collaborated with over 80 celebrated artists and writers,including Jim Dine, Kiki Smith, Leonardo Drew, Shepard Fairey, Robert Ryman, Mary Heilmann, Jessica Stockholder, Jane Hammond, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Creeley and Matthew Day Jackson.
She was the founding director of Pace Paper (a Brooklyn papermaking facility for Pace Prints), as well as Line Press Limited, a print workshop in Brooklyn devoted to artist books and small-scale print editions. She currently splits her time between these studios.
She has received lifetime achievement awards in both papermaking and the book arts. Her personal practice is based in language, sometimes combined with a historical twist, and employs hand-set type and letterpress, often combined with lithography and handmade paper. Her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Museum, as well as over 35 libraries, including the New York Public library and the Harvard University Library. Her books are represented by Booklyn,Inc., and her Artist Book Archive was recently acquired by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.
In Collection:
Florida Atlantic University (FAU), The Jaffe Book Arts Collection
The HillsKoninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland
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