Lindsey Brittain Collins is a New York-based painter working across multiple mediums including collage, sculpture, and installation. She creates architectural abstractions that narrate her encounters with built environments and urban spaces. Each painting serves as an archive of a place or moment in time. Inspired by contemporary and historical events, memory, and personal experiences, her conceptually driven work focuses on sharing untold stories and examining the role architecture plays in shaping social and economic structures. Her work confronts the erasure of blackness and spaces of blackness in history, such as African-American burial grounds and historically Black neighborhoods, tracing the people and places obscured, omitted, or erased by dominant historical narratives. She is particularly interested in how architecture reflects and reinforces social and economic hierarchies. Her process is both heavily research-based and simultaneously spontaneous. Drawing on her academic background in business, economics, and sociology, she considers how systems of power, capital, and social life shape the spaces we inhabit.

Lindsey received her MFA from Columbia University in 2021. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and B.A. in Economics and Sociology from the University of Virginia. In 2018 she was appointed by the Governor to the Art & Architectural Review Board for the state of Virginia. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and was the recipient of the 2019 Arena Stage Emerging Leader in the Arts Award. In 2021-2022 Brittain Collins was an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects.