My Linh Mac

Chicago, Illinois

My Linh Mac is a multimedia artist, award-winner graphic designer, and art educator based in Chicago. Mac is best known for her digital paintings, traditional oil paintings, and her series of contemporary ‘galactic / no-brush’ paintings, Ranbu. As an accomplished painter, her works portray beauty in humble places with her signature style of deep and vibrant accent colors. While Mac’s paintings have varied genres, from conceptual, abstract, and figurative to contemporary, her digital and visual design works are commercial.

When working with art, Mac discovered non-traditional techniques bring further variety to her paintings through the use of color manipulation and the manipulation of materials and presentation platforms. Her niche is the ability to produce art within one medium that looks as if it were created within a different medium. Each of Mac’s artworks “speaks for itself”; her unique approach of combining elements and medium gives her the credibility of an inventive artist and visual designer. What makes her work stand out among young emerging artists is how she incorporates not only technical skills and knowledge from multiple creative fields of design, art, and technologies, but also her personal experience and cultural exposure from different parts of the world as a traveler. With her design and graphics, Mac is very details-oriented with her works and passionate about helping artists and art organizations establish their creative business marketing brands. With her strong background in both digital and fine art combines, her work encompasses a range of emotional aesthetics, from conceptual with storytelling to commercial with high-end visual effects.

Mac is originally from Vietnam and pursued her art education in Singapore, Australia, and the United States. Mac received her Bachelor of Art in Digital Media & Painting from Valparaiso University, her Master’s in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and her Master’s in Entrepreneurship for the Creative from Columbia College of Chicago. Mac’s multimedia artworks are represented by galleries, institutional art museums, and private art collections in over 7 countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, and South Korea. As a creative influencer, Mac is a member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painting Society (NOAPS), Oil Painting of America (OAP), as well as jury member of Creative Communication Award (C2A), Davey Award, Creativity International Award, Brightness Illustration Award, Lorenzo Il Magnifico Award & The Leonardo Da Vinci Award, etc.