Appointed the executive director of Houston's Project Row Houses in 2009, Linda Shearer has been working in museums in the United States for nearly 40 years, and her focus has been on contemporary art. She arrived in Houston in 2007 to serve as interim director at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Prior to coming to Houston, she served as director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and from 1989 to 2004, at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. She served as a Center management panelist in 2012.