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Linda Duvall is a Canadian artist and educator based in Saskatchewan and Toronto. Her social art projects, exhibitions and research have taken up questions of conscience and the nature of interpersonal relationships, particularly through the performance of conversation. Her art employs photography, video, installation, performance art, and community-based research including Internet-based archiving, alongside specific invitations for individuals or groups to participate in her project-based work. Duvall's work takes up the nature of speech acts (such as, confessions, gossip and expressions of regret), the nature of truth, the processing of grief, representations of intimacy and self-protective physical acts, as well as the vulnerability inherent in intercultural exchange. Her work has been commissioned by art organizations in Canada, Germany, Slovenia, Ireland, Spain, Guatemala, UK, Mexico and Australia. She has served on a number of boards of artist-run organizations including, Paved Arts, Red Head Gallery, The Photographer's Gallery, BlackFlash Magazine.

Educational Background
Linda Duvall studied sociology and English at Carlton University and education at Queen's University. She earned an A.O.C.A diploma from Ontario College of Art and Master of Fine Arts degrees from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Transart Institute

Artistic Practice
Linda Duvall moved with her family from Ontario to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1993, where she taught at the University of Saskatchewan. Following training in sociology and the English language, Duvall's artworks have situated conversation, dialogue, and cultural exchange as both the medium and the output of her artworks. In 1997 her work, Traducción/Translation was presented at Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Guatemala City and later at The Photographers Gallery in Saskatoon. This work superimposed handwritten Spanish quotations from immigrants to Saskatchewan onto images of the Canadian prairies. A number of her works invite and present more intimate conversational exchanges, such as Tea Gone Cold (1999, in an exhibition called Antipathies and Correspondences: Rae Staseson, Linda Duvall, Joanne Bristol, at the Mendel Gallery now know as Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan) and Tea and Gossip (2003, Red Head Gallery, Toronto; 2004, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, an other locations).

With the 2005 work, Lament (Red Head Gallery and Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 2008), Duvall's work took on more specifically sorrowful types of discourse. In Lament, Duvall presented audio recordings of people reading public laments such as, confessions, pleas of apology and regret, and announcements of unexpected tragedy or death. Audience members were invited to participate in these public readings, while visual footage of Duvall involved in a violent police incident was visible in the room. The work, She Can't Begin (2007, Read Head Gallery), presented the artist's own words in response to her 23-year old son's suicide superimposed on video images of the prairie landscape of his death. Also in direct response to these events she produced a small artist's book, Desperately Sorry Emails (2008) as a magazine insert inBlackFlash.

In 2009 a major work resulted from Duvall's collaborative work with organizations supporting incarcerated individuals and their families. Where ere the Mothers? (Art Gallery of Missisauga and Dunlop Art Gallery) is comprised of a gallery-based video installation as well as a professionally produced audio CD featuring songs written and performed by individuals who as the CD brochure describes "have had run-ins with the law, lived or worked on the street, dealt with addictions or participated in illegal street gangs."

Sandals, Leah. “A Look at Living in 10 Easy Lessons by Linda Duvall and Peter Kingstone at Gallery 44 | Toronto Star.” Thestar.com. Accessed March 18, 2017. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2012/11/01/a_look_at_living_in_10_easy_lessons_by_linda_duvall_and_peter_kingstone_at_gallery_44.html.