Linda Tesner is a fine arts consultant and independent curator in Portland, Oregon. She has held assistant director, director, and/or curator roles at Portland State University's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, the Portland Art Museum, and Goldendale, Washington's Maryhill Museum of Art. She is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and monographs and has a special interest in public art projects.