Linda Tracey Brandon

Linda Tracey Brandon is an American representational painter who paints portraits and the human figure in addition to creating works in other genres, such as still life and landscape.

Brandon was born in Michigan in 1955 and is a graduate of the University of Michigan and New York University School of Law. She received an honor award for her work in hand-drawn animated films as part of her undergraduate studies. Brandon later worked as a radio news reporter for WUOM-FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a television reporter and anchorwoman for WILX-TV in Jackson, Michigan. She also worked as a lawyer in New York City.

She is the author of the children’s book The Little Flower Girl,

Brandon is the grandniece of British silent movie director and actor Bert Tracy.

She studied under several representational/realist drawing and painting teachers through the years. In New York, she took an illustration course at the Parsons New School for Design. After a move to Arizona, she took classes at the Scottsdale School of Art, where she now periodically teaches painting and drawing.

Brandon paints narrative works that are rooted in her own life experiences and are autobiographical in some degree. Lately she has been arranging items and people in tableaus that are metaphorical, the purpose of which is to create a dialogue between artist and viewer. To enhance this effect, she uses the interplay of movement and stillness, presence and absence, expectation and memory, and the literal and the abstract in her paintings .

• Merrill-Johnson Gallery Award, Northern Colorado Artist Association National Exhibition, 2000
• Featured Artist, "In the Frame: Pushing the Envelope," Portrait Society of America Newsletter, Third Quarter 2005
• Featured in "Master Portrait Artist Showcase," International Artist Magazine Issue #49, June/July 2006
• Exceptional Merit Award, Portrait Society of America 2005 International Competition
• Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America 2006 International Competition
• "Jury's Top 50," Salon International 2007, International Museum of Contemporary Masters, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX
• Mentor, Portrait Society of America - Cecelia Beaux Society Artist Mentorship Program, 2009–11
• Finalist, The Artist's Magazine 2010 Annual Art Competition (Landscape Category)
• Featured Artist, "Member Spotlight," Journal of the Portrait Society of America, issue No. 64, Third Quarter 2014
• 3rd Place, Portrait Society of America 2014 Members Only Competition (Still Life Category
• "Artist to Watch," Southwest Art Magazine, March 2015
• Finalist, The Artist's Magazine 2015, 2014, 2001 and 1999 Annual Art Competitions (Portrait/Figure Category)
• "A Sense of Dialogue," Article on the painting "Read to Me", American Art Collector, June 2016
• First Prize, 2016 Portrait Artists of Arizona 6th Annual Exhibition and Sale, Scottsdale, AZ
• Second Prize, 2017 Portrait Artists of Arizona 7th Annual Portrait Exhibition and Sale, Scottsdale, AZ
• Fifth Place, 2019 Lore Degenstein Gallery Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition and Exhibit, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
• Finalist, 2018/2019, 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2013/2014 and 2012/2013 International Art Renewal Center (ARC) Salon Competitions
• First Prize, 2014 Butler Institute of American Art's 78th Annual Midyear Exhibition, Youngstown, OH
• Semifinalist, Outwin Boochiver Portrait Competition 2016, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

• 2016, 2015 "Contemporary Figuration" Group Juried Shows, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
• 2016 "Holiday Small Works" Group Juried Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
• 2016 "Animalia" Group Juried Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
• 2016 Portrait Artists of Arizona 6th Annual Exhibition and Sale, University Club of Phoenix, AZ
• 2016 Butler Institute of American Art's 80th Midyear Exhibition, Youngstown, OH
• 2018 and 2016 Lore Degenstein Gallery Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competitions and Exhibits, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
• 2017 "Sight Unseen" Group Juried Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
• 2017 National Weather Center Biennale, Norman, OK
• 2018 "Visions of Venus/Venus' Visions" Group Juried Show, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
• 2018 Women Painting Women 7 Artist Invitational Show, Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, Clarksville, TN
• 2019 "Go Wild" Group Juried Show, Gormley's Fine Art, Dublin/Belfast, IR