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, raising questions of visibility and invisibility - shining a light on the stories of the people and places that have been overlooked. She is particularly interested in the relationship between architecture and race and exploring ways in which equity can be built. Her process is both heavily research-based while simultaneously spontaneous. Drawing on her academic background in business, economics, and sociology, she approaches the topics in her work through a critical lens.

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. Currently, Brittain Collins is an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects, where this year’s program focus is on social justice and activism.