Linda Stein (born ca. 1955?) is an American sculptor and feminist.
Stein was born in The Bronx to a working-class family. She attended the School of Visual Arts and Queens College, where she earned a B.A. and, while working as an art teacher, an M.A. at the Pratt Institute .
Her career began with a calligraphy service in New York. The business used the art gentrification of TriBeCa . Stein later made a sculpture series fusing machetes with wood, rope, and other materials; she also paints and works in mixed media.
Stein is a member of the Veteran Feminists of America. In 2005, the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen fooled her into an interview with his character Borat (telling her he was a journalist for Belarus Television making a documentary about the United States), which was included in his 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In the interview, Stein responded seriously and angrily to Cohen's character's ludicrously sexist attitudes on women, and finally stormed off the interview set.[1][2]
| Exhibition title | Gallery name | City, State |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 STEIN: NEW WORK | PAF Gallery of Fine Art | New York |
| 1975 CONSTRUCTIONS | Gallery North | Scarsdale, New York |
| 1977 PROFILE | Gallery Camino Real | Boca Raton, Florida |
| 1988 CHAIRS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS | Borough of Manhattan Community College | New York |
| 1989 -STEIN ENVIRONMENTAL EXCAVATION | Becton Hall Gallery | Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey |
| STEIN EXCAVATION, Presented by mayor-Elect David Dinkins | Gallery of Manhattan Borough | President, New York |
| 1991 -BLADES: TRANSCENDING AGGRESSION | Monmouth County Arts Center | New Jersey |
| BLADES: REVERSING VIOLENCE | Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Window on Broad | The University of the Arts, Philadelphia |
| BLADES: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT | Fairleigh Dickinson University, Edward Williams Gallery | New Jersey |
| BLADES IN NEW YORK: A MULTI-MEDIA ENVIRONMENT | Soho 20 | New York |
| 1994 -LINDA STEIN BLADES | Jamaica Arts Center | Queens, New York |
| 1996 -MUSICAL BLADES | Cortland Jessup Gallery | Provincetown, Massachusetts |
| 1998 -LINDA STEIN SOUNDING BLADES | Spiva Art Museum | Joplin, Missouri |
| 2002 -LINDA STEIN EMBEDDED GLYPHS | The Art Club | New York |
| 2004 -LINDA STEIN - THE FACE: AN OBSESSION OF ANGER (three decades) | Morgan Gallery | Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 2005 -LINDA STEIN - "(K)NIGHT WATCH," | New York University, Broadway Windows | New York |
| 2006 -LINDA STEIN - KNIGHTS | Flomenhaft Gallery | New York |
| LINDA STEIN - SCULPTURE OF THE HEROIC WOMAN | Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Jim Thorpe | Pennsylvania |
| LINDA STEIN - WONDER WOMAN REBORN AS LINDA STEIN | The Art Mission Gallery | Binghamton, New York |
| LINDA STEIN - HEROIC VISIONS | Longstreth Goldberg Art | Naples, Florida |