Lyn Horton

In 1974, I received my MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. However, even though I was represented in LA by a prominent gallery with several shows under my belt, I left the West Coast to marry, live in Massachusetts and raise my son. I worked briefly as an art instructor at a local community college but was always a mother and artist and housewife. Between 1988 and 2002, I also installed and worked with designers of exhibits in the art museums in this area: MASSMoCA, the Clark, The Berkshire Museum, and the Williams College Museum of Art.

In the 70s, Max Protetch represented me both in Washington, DC, and New York. That relationship concluded, however. As a result of my own representation in the 1980s and early ’90s, my work was exhibited often in the NE. I received local grants to do a photographic piece for the town in which I lived and to execute a bronze sculpture installed in Pittsfield, MA, in the exterior “sitting area” of the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts.

Between 1996 and 2012, I wrote about jazz and creative improvised music for top online and print magazines and my own writing blog. Since 2017, I have written about painters and ceramic artists and their exhibits for an online magazine out of NYC.

In 2012, Rebecca Cross, owner/director of Cross MacKenzie Gallery in Washington, DC (now in Hillsboro, VA), asked me to be an artist in her gallery. Since then, my work has been exhibited in several shows, both group, and solo. In 2014, the Art in Embassies Program through the US State Department commissioned me to do an installation in the US Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, for the Embassy’s permanent collection.  

My work is also in the collections of the Sol LeWitt Foundation, Georgetown University, and the Sidwell Friends School as well as many private collections. Drawings of mine have also been chosen as covers for recordings and by prize-winning interior designers to be featured in their house designs as well as in promotional layouts for print magazines.

Throughout my career, my work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Europe, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and in Albany and New York City, NY. A few of these shows produced catalogs in which my work is featured.

As of 2022, I am represented by a gallery in Philadelphia as well as Cross MacKenzie. I am also a member of ecoartspace, a group of over 600 members whose work concentrates on our earth and the expressions concerning environmental crises.