Background
Linder was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Linder was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
He relocated to Los Angeles after high school where he attended Santa Monica College receiving his Associate of Arts. He received a scholarship to finish his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. In 1997 he received his Master of Fine Arts from University of California Berkeley in 1997.
After graduation, he opened Refusalon, an alternative art space in his home. Some of the artists shown included Gay Outlaw, David Nash and Bill Daniels, among many others Refusalon closed in 1999.
Lincart was featured on the KQED television show, SPARK, in 2004.
Lincart has shown artists like Wally Hedrick, Yayoi Kusama, Graham Gillmore, and Tucker Nichols, among many others Lincart relocated to 1 Otis Street in San Francisco as of August 2009.
Lincart Closed in August 2010. Refusalon, LINCART, EVERGOLD, GALLERY 16, and Guerrero Gallery.
Linder"s sculpture and visual art have been shown at Gallery 16 San Francisco
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Los Angeles
Greene Contemporary New York
Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, California, July 2011 " Swimmingly, with Watermelons and Referrals "
Louisiana Casa del Tunel, Tijuana Mexico, November - December 2013 " Charles Linder: MUDSLINGER
Alternative Contemporaneity: TAZ curated by Richard Haden, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, March 2015
Invisible Fencing Luminaries: Gallery 16, San Francisco, September 11 - November 7, 2015.