Tracy Linder is known for her sculptures and installations that address our connection to the land, the sanctity of our food sources and the innate survival skills of all species. Her interest is in the working land and the complex circumstance of its caretakers. Linder grew up on a family farm and now lives on the vast windswept prairie of south central Montana.

Linder’s work sheds light on our current American West circumstance where landscape, nature and environment are inseparable. She uses a wide array of materials to explore the vulnerability and strength of her subjects including animal collagen, leather, beeswax, resin and bronze to recognize the endurable resilience inherent in our environment and the tenuousness of our relationship to it.

Linder’s art works have been shown nationally and extensively in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Yellowstone Art Museum, Missoula Art Museum, Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, OK Harris Works of Art in NYC, Gallery 210 in St. Louis, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City and Prescott College Art Gallery in AZ. Her works are held in several public collections.

In 2015, Linder was a featured speaker at a TEDx event in Billings, MT. She has served on the Montana Arts Council since 2008. Her work was included in the inaugural exhibit of the Bozeman Sculpture Park in 2011. She was the first artist in residence of the Yellowstone Art Museum’s Visible Vault for 6 months. She was also selected to be a resident at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. In 2000, Linder was commissioned by the US General Services Administration’s Art In Architecture program for the Sweetgrass, MT/Coutts, AB Border Station. Prior to that she taught at MSU-Billings and served as the Gallery Director for 6 years. She received her MFA in 1991 from the University of Colorado at Boulder.