Lindsay Mueller

Lindsay Mueller is a landscape painter whose practice considers interconnection, perceptual ambiguity, and decay through her tactile, layered paintings. Mueller grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in Arlington, Virginia. She received a BFA in Painting and a BA in Psychology from Boston University, and she completed an MFA in Visual Arts at American University. Since 2019 she has exhibited in group shows at MoCA Arlington (VA), Strathmore (MD), Gallery B (MD), Brentwood Arts Exchange (MD), Vandernoot Gallery (MA), Laconia Gallery (MA), Studio Gallery (DC), and the American University Museum (DC).

In 2023 Mueller received the Bethesda Painting Young Artist award, and she is a recipient of the Carol Bird Ravenal Art Award for artistic research from American University. In the summer of 2024, she was published in I Like Your Work’s MFA Catalogue and she was a Four Pillars Artist in Residence at Mount Gretna School of Art (PA).

Mueller values the power of art to build community, and she has worked often with adults and children teaching art classes and creating community arts programming. She is currently an instructor at the Washington Studio School and MoCA Arlington.