Born 1973, Pennsylvania

Education

2000

• Master of Fine Arts, Yale University School of Art

1995

• Bachelor of Arts, Bard College

Awards

2011

• Second Place, ArtVerona Prize for Photography, Italy

2008

• Artist Grant, Connecticut State Culture & Tourism Commission

2005

• Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers

2003

• Photo District News’ “30”

2002

• Distinctive Merit Awards (2), Art Directors’ Club of New York

2000

• Ward Cheney Memorial Award, Yale School of Art

Residencies/Workshops

2011

• Third Street Artist in Residence, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2010

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

2009

• Chianticom, Tuscany, Italy

2008

• Mt. Tremper Arts Center, Hudson Valley, NY

2007

• Chashama North, Hudson Valley, NY

2006

• Hungarian Multicultural Center, Lake Balaton, Hungary
• Camera Club of NY, Color Printing Residency, NYC

2005

• Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Program: 120 Broadway

2001

• Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of Art

Exhibitions

Solo

2013

• Joe’s Junk Yard, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA (projected)

2012

• The Party’s Over, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• Joe’s Junk Yard/La Poetica del Rottamaio, Metronom, Modena, Italy
• Salvage, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
• Joe’s Junk Yard, City-wide Open Studios Alternative Space, New Haven, CT

2010

• Allure, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta
• Lisa Kereszi: Photographs, Davenport College Gallery at Yale, New Haven

2009

• Fantasies, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• Joe’s Junkyard, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
• Governors Island, Commanding Officer’s House, Governors Island, NYC (ongoing)

2008

• Fantasies, Metronom, Modena, Italy

2007

• Cheap Thrills, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• Icon Project: High Line, Theory Flagship Store, NYC

2006

• Public Dialogue, Alcott Gallery at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2005

• The Baum Award, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
• A Previous Life, Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• New York Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC

2004

• Governors Island, (2-person show with Andrew Moore), The Urban Center Gallery and City Hall, NYC

2003

• Landscape and New Burlesque, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
• Yale Summer School of Art, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT

2002

• Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

2001

• No Live Girls, Todo Con Nada at Show World, Times Square, NYC

2000

• MFA Thesis Show, Yale University, New Haven
• Nocturnal Photographs, Williamsburg Mini-Mall, Brooklyn

1999

• Nocturnal Photographs, Open Space Series, James Fuentes Gallery, NYC

1998

• Photographs, L Cafe, Brooklyn
• Facing Addiction, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Group

2014

• Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008, Wadsworth Athaneum and other venues TBA (projected)

2012

• The Kids Are All Right, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (projected), Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
• Local Color, Mercantile Home, Easton, PA
• Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
• Growing Season, Mercantile Home, Easton, PA

2011

• Recent Acquisitions: Photography, Norton Museum of Art, W. Palm Beach, FL
• People, Power and Places: Reframing the American Landscape, Davidson College Gallery, North Carolina
• Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
• Small Works, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
• 9/11 Remembered: A Gallery of Reflection, The New York Times Building Lobby, NYC
• 9/11 Remembered, in here is new york, International Center of Photography, NYC
• Visitor Center, National September 11th Memorial & Museum, NYC
• Sept. 11, 2001: Conn. Responds and Reflects, Conn. Historical Society, Hartford
• CSC Archive Show, Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco, CA
• Visions, Chianticom, Greve in Chianti, Italy

2010

• Hands on Hands Off: Faculty Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
• Inspired, Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC (curated by Beth Rudin deWoody)
• Incognito: the Hidden Self-Portrait, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• Things Fall Apart, Pool Gallery, Berlin
• Sequins in the Sand: Celebrating 20 years of Miss Exotic World, Burlesque Hall of Fame at Emergency Arts, Las Vegas
• Matters of Pattern, Conn. Culture & Tourism Gallery, Hartford, Conn.
• Psychological Interior, Gallery Out of Place. Tokyo
• Are you a Lucky Artist?, Biblioteca Civica d’Arte Luigi Poletti, Modena, Italy

2009

• Sept.11, 2001: Conn. Responds and Reflects, Brookfield Museum and Historical Society, Conn.
• Preview Space, National September 11th Memorial & Museum, NYC
• Glitz and Grime: Photographs of Times Square, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• Sexy in the City, Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
• Peeps, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

2008

• Musée de la Photographie, Brussels
• The Printed Picture, curated by Richard Benson, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• Intrepid Unearthed, Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, NYC
• Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• Balatonfüred/Csopak International Artists Residencies, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest
• Properly Past, BRIC/Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• SIGNS, Mt. Tremper Arts Center, Catskills, NY

2007

• Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY
• Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• The Show on Vegas, M&B, Los Angeles
• Chashama North, Pine Plains, NY
• World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Touring Exhibition, various venues
• Points of Departure, Fox Art Gallery, Logan Hall, Univ. of Penna., Phila.
• Camera Club of NY, Residency Windows, Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC
• Come One Come All, 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2006

• Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art
• The Office In and out of the Box, Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY
• Camera Club of NY, Residency Show, NYC
• 9-11 Memorial Show, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
• Bearings: The Female Figure, PS 122 Gallery, NYC
• Signals from/about Central-Europe II, Works from the Balatonfüred/Csopak International Artists Residencies 1996-2006, Central EU Gallery (KeKi), Budapest, Hungary
• Storefront Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC

2005

• An Arm and a Leg, (curated by Beth de Woody) Artek Contemporaries, NYC
• Equally Vulnerable, Branchville Gallery, Ridgefield, CT
• On View: Photographing The Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• When We Were Young, Foley Gallery, NYC
• The Right Light, Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, NYC

2004

• AMP: Flat File Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
• Dreamweavers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC
• The Story of the South, Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans
• Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
• 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Philadelphia, New Museum, NYC and others
• Subway Series: The NY Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, NY
• Subway Series: The NY Yankees and the American Dream, Bronx Museum of Art
• From New York with Love, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL

2003

• Pictures from Within, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
• Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, NYC
• Inside Out, Paul Morris Gallery, NYC
• A River Half Empty, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT
• The Flat Files, University of Southern Maine
• The Armory Show, (with Pierogi) NYC
• Works on Paper, Volume 1, Volcker & Freunde Galerie, Berlin

2002

• Faculty Show, School of the International Center of Photography, NYC
• Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
• Exotic Representation, Hunter College Art Gallery, NYC
• Next Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
• Ways and Means, Faculty Show, School of the International Center of Photography, NYC
• Life of the City (Part II), Museum of Modern Art, NYC

2001

• Here is New York, NYC, Chicago, Arles and others
• The Body or the Landscape, Clemente Solo Velez Art Center, NYC
• Tweaked, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, NYC
• In the Lake, Malca Fine Art, NYC

2000

• Common Gaze, Base Art, San Francisco
• Meat Market Art Fair, (with Pierogi) NYC
• New Photographs, Baumgartner Gallery, NYC
• Coriolis, Metro 971, Brooklyn, NY

1999

• Faculty Show, Yale Summer School of Art, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT
• Videoforum, Art 30 Basel, (with zingmagazine) Switzerland
• New Haven Open Studios/Exhibition, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT
• The Apartment Show: Art for/in/about the Home, Zach Feuer, Boston
• Salon One: A Photographic Installation, James Fuentes Gallery, NYC

1998

• MFA Group Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven
• Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, (with Pierogi Flat Files) Brooklyn Museum, NY

1997

• Splice, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica,
• The Affected Landscape, Mc Kinney Arts, NYC

Selected Publications

2012

• Joe’s Junk Yard. Damiani Editore, Bologna (monograph)
• “100 Notes — 100 Thoughts (on Dixie Evans)”, dOCUMENTA 13 (catalog), Kassel.

2011

• New York: A Photographer’s City. Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Rizzoli: New York.
• “Peepshow Creepshow,” zingmagazine, number 22.

2010

• Exhibition Catalog, Musee de la Photographie, Belgium, pp. 304-5 & cover.
• Are You a Lucky Artist. Skina Editore, Modena, Italy
• “What happens there?” The Believer, January, p. 3.
• “How to win in Reno.” Esopus, Issue 13, p. 79.

2009

• Fun and Games, Nazraeli Press (monograph)

2007

• Fantasies. Damiani Editore, Bologna (monograph)
• “Peepshow,” Exit 29, Madrid
• People like you, them & us, love Hijacked. T&G Publishing, Sydney.

2007

• Central-Europe Through the Eye of International Artists, Hungarian Multicultural Center

2006

• Woodward, Richard. “Altered States.” Artnews, March, cover & p. 105

2005

• Governors Island, (exhibition catalog, with Andrew Moore), Public Art Fund

2004

• Open House: Working in Brooklyn, (exhibition catalog), Brooklyn Museum
• Lunar Calendar: Julie Atlas Muz, Whitney Biennial (exhibition catalog), Abrams/Steidl
• Harper’s Magazine, May
• Subway Series, zing books (exhibition catalog)

2003

• Lisa Kereszi: Photographs (exhibition catalog) Pierogi Press
• “PDN’s 30,” Photo District News, March
• Artist in the Marketplace (exhibition catalog), Bronx Museum of Art
• A River Half Empty (exhibition catalog), Aldrich Museum

2002

• Pierogi Press, No. 9

2001

• Art Directors’ Club Annual, No. 81
• American Photography 18
• Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, SCALO
• Exotic Representation, (exhibition catalog), Hunter College, New York
• “Lisa Kereszi: King of Photography,” Tokion
• Turn Shake Flip, Eyestorm
• zingmagazine, Issue 16, Winter
• Pierogi Press, Fall
• Graduate Photography at Yale, New Haven, CT
• Tweaked (exhibition catalog), F.I.T., NYC

1999

• zingmagazine, No. 9, Spring

1998

• The Art of the X Files, Lookout Books/Harper Prism
• Our Grandmothers, Stewart Tabori and Chang

1998

• zingmagazine, No. 6, Summer

1996

• Zoom, Milan, March/April

Selected Collections

• Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
• American Museum of Natural History
• Bard College Photography Department
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Cleveland Clinic Art Program
• Dikeou Collection
• Dow Jones
• Fried Frank Art Collection
• Intrepid Sea, Air, Space Museum
• Joy of Giving Something Foundation
• Marieluise Hessel Collection of CCS Bard
• Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
• Museum of Modern Art (Study Collection)
• National September 11th Memorial & Museum
• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
• Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans
• Pilara Foundation, San Francisco
• West Collection of S.E.I. Investments
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• UBS Art Collection
• University of California at Berkeley Art Museum
• Yale School of Art and Haas Arts Library
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Various private collections

Teaching Experience

2006-2013

• Lecturer and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography, Yale University School of Art, Undergraduate Photography Dept. (to present)

2013

• Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale School of Art (projected)

2011-12

• Lecturer/Critic, MFA Program in Photography, Yale School of Art

2008

• Guest critic, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2006

• Faculty, Summer Residency Program at School of Visual Arts, NYC

2005

• Lecturer, Yale University, Undergraduate Photography Dept.

2004

• Lecturer, Yale University, Undergraduate Photography Dept.

2002

• Faculty, International Center of Photography (through 2005)

2000

• Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, Undergraduate Photo Dept.

1999

• Teaching Assistant, Yale Summer Program at Norfolk, CT

Lectures

2012

• Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Palm Springs Art Museum at Palm Springs Photo Festival, CA
• MassArt, Boston, MA
• Bryn Mawr College, PA

2011

• NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC
• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
• Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
• Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
• Commanding Officer’s House, Governors Island, NYC
• West Collection, Merion, PA
• Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
• Drew University, Madison, NJ
• Panel discussion on women in photography, School of Visual Arts, NYC

2010

• Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Commanding Officer’s House, Governors Island, NYC
• Panel discussion on magazine photography, PhotoPlus Expo, NYC

2009

• Apple Store Soho, APANY Image Makers Lecture Series
• The Strand Bookstore, NYC
• Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina

2006

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2005

• University of Chicago, MFA Program, IL
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Cooper Union, NYC
• Int’l Center of Photography, NYC
• East Tenn. State University, Johnson City, TN
• School of Visual Arts, NYC
• Teacher/lecture, CEC Arts Link, VisArt Program in Central Asia

2004

• School of Visual Arts, NYC
• Yale University, undergraduate photography dept., New Haven, CT
• New York University MA Studio Art Program, NYC

2003

• School of Visual Arts, NYC
• Yale Summer Program in Norfolk, CT

2002

• School of Visual Arts

2001

• International Center of Photography

1999

• Parsons School of Art and Design

Selected Work Experience

• Freelance photography, magazines include the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York, TIME, Harper’s, GQ, Nest, Details, Jane, W, London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Flaunt, Fortune, Nylon, wallpaper*, Black Book, V, Bust, Newsweek, Orion, Bon Appetit, House and Garden, AARP, Village Voice, and zingmagazine; clients include IBM, Nike, NY Organ Donor Society, Qdoba, Yale University Admissions and Capitol Records, 1996 – present
• Assistant, Nan Goldin, 1996-97

Miscellany

• Writer, “There are always the ones that got away,” in: Steacy, Will. The Photographs Not Taken, Daylight Press, 2012.
• Writer, “The World is Our Studio,” in: Traub, Charlie. The Education of a Photographer sequel. Allworth Press, 2012
• Curator, 19th Century New Haven Cartes de Visite, Davenport College Gallery, Yale Univ., CT 2011 and the Institute Library, New Haven, CT, Spring 2013
• Curator, LAND Gallery Artists, Sam’s Space, Yale School of Art, CT, 2011
• Co-curator, North East Folk, Davenport College Gallery, Yale Univ., CT 2011

• Review Board, Pratt Photography Program Review, 2010
• Writer, various articles on photography, Daylight Magazine online, 2010-11
• Executive Producer, A Steady Grind, feature documentary by Victoria Kereszi, 2009
• Judge, Miss Exotic World Contest, Burlesque Hall of Fame, Las Vegas, NV, 2008
• Co-curator, Sea, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC, 2003