Linda Bickerton-Ross is a Canadian Fine Art photographer based in White Rock, BC. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Toronto and Western Washington University, an MA from Simon Fraser University and an Honorary Doctorate (2015) from Kwantlen Technical University. Her formal photography studies include a Certificate in Photography from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, coursework at Focal Point in Vancouver, BC and ongoing Santa Fe Workshops. Her careers include early work as a musician, later as both teacher and administrator in the public school system and her current dedication to the study and art of photography.

Since 2022, juried and invitational exhibitions of Linda’s work include Art Vancouver 2022, ArtRich 2023 (Richmond Art Gallery) and Arts 2023 (Surrey Art Gallery), the Landmark PopUptown Gallery and the Nomad Gallery in White Rock, BC. In December 2024, she was invited to participate in the Richmond Art Gallery’s Annual Fundraising Exhibition, Amuse Bouche. In 2023 Bickerton-Ross received the First Place Photography Prize at Arts 2023, Surrey Art Gallery. In 2022, she won a Jurors’ Prize Honorable Mention at the Surrey Art Gallery for a still photograph from her Birthing of a High-Rise video project, a Digital Doorways Initiative. Other collaborative work includes a two-year Photo/Interview project with Melanie Watts, Artists Among Us, published monthly in Spotlight Magazine.

As a young musician, Bickerton-Ross founded, along with four others, the Langley Community Music School, now an established school for classical music studies, receiving an Honorary Doctorate for this accomplishment in 2015. In 2023, Linda founded the Praxis Photography Collective, consisting of five diverse photographers. Since its founding, the Collective has exhibited in four successful gallery shows, culminating in its August 2024 exhibition, Inside Out, at the Landmark Gallery in White Rock. In October 2024, Praxis exhibited at a Marine Drive location in White Rock as part of the White Rock South Surrey Culture Crawl and at the Nomad Gallery as part of a Photography Exhibition. In May, the Praxis Collective will host an Open House at their Marine Drive location.