Elliott Linwood

Linwood was born July 14, 1956, in Lowell and attended Billerica Memorial High School[3] in Massachusetts before moving to New York City when he was nineteen.

Film director Dereck Jarman's movie Blue, also influenced work that Linwood presented in "Share Your Vision,"[9] for which he won first place and an award.

Some of the writers and artists Linwood wrote about include Christine Tamblyn, Nao Bustamante, Sheree Rose, Millie Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems, Diamanda Gallas, The Theory Girls, Jerome Caja, Cliff Hengst, Paul Monette, Sapphire, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Justin Chin, The Hittite Empire, Joe Goode and others.

"[19] Linwood is best known for his large-scale photo grids composed of original and found images culled from the environment, the Internet, cult movies and magazine ads.

[20] Both bodies of work share similar characteristics, such as a non-linear viewpoint and an indexical relationship between the images and objects presented, which in turn point to things outside their framing device.

[21] His sculptures, Initiation, and Resistance, and his projection Citizen Pan, were displayed in A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies at Artists Space in New York in 1997,[22] an exhibition that Frank Moore curated around text-based work.

Holland Cotter in the April 1997 Art in America wrote of the exhibition: "The bittersweet tone was set [by] pieces by Elliott Linwood which opened the show.

'"[23] Bill Arning, in the December 10, 1996 Village Voice also wrote about Linwood's work in the exhibition, "This synthesis of queer politics, camp humour, dark children's stories, and magic sets us up for a different kind of AIDS show than New York has seen before.