Linda Burnham attended the Instituo de Allende, San Miguel in Guanjuato, Mexico in 1967, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1972, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1976. From 1990 to 1992 she was an adjunct professor of painting and drawing at the University of Southern California, and from 1990 to 1994 she worked as a gradate studies instructor at Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
