Linda Plaisted is an award-winning American multidisciplinary artist whose exploratory practice includes photography, collage, painting, and encaustic. Approaching her work as both artist and historian, she uses her visionary methods to champion women and the natural world. Each piece she creates tells a story, drawing on traditions of collection, synthesis, and cultural interpretation as therapeutic practices. By layering her original photography and paintings with found images and gathered ephemera, she produces photographic mixed media works with translucent veils of narrative, layers of time and memory bleeding into one another, seeking a deeper truth.

Linda Plaisted was born in Pennsylvania in 1967 and now lives and works in Frederick, Maryland. She studied at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Temple University, and George Mason University, where she earned degrees in Fine Art, Illustration, and Literature. A 2002 magna cum laude graduate of GMU, her final portfolio was recognized as the most creative in her graduating class. Plaisted’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including recent exhibitions at PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), Atlanta Photography Group (Atlanta, GA), A. Smith Gallery (TX), Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver, CO), Praxis Photo Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), Texas Woman’s University (Denton, TX), the Southeast Center for Photography (Greenville, SC), Women’s Photo Alliance NYC, Verum Ultimum Gallery (Portland, OR), Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), South x Southeast Gallery (Decatur, GA), Slip Gallery (Seattle, WA), the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (Providence, RI), Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville, NC), and Monmouth University Center for the Arts (West Long Branch, NJ). Her work has been published in various prestigious publications and newspapers including 5x7, Artdoc, The Boston Globe, Canvas Rebel, Black & White Photography, Photo Trouvé, Lenscratch, Shots, CatchLight, Wilder Roam, and Camas, among others. She was a 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award winner and a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist in both 2023 and 2025.