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Born: 1971, St. Petersburg, FL

Education:

2001 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA – Master of Fine Arts
1997-99 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
1992 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA – Bachelor of Arts, English Literature

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2013 “Locket”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Disbelief”, Marx and Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Lineage”, Marx and Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Something Borrowed,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Haunted,” The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2004 “Closer,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “New Work,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also 2000)
1998 Isabel Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021 “Portraits Without Faces,” PH-21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 “The Figure,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery , New York
2018 “Flowering,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery , New York
2016 “Tiny Treasures,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2015 “In the Pink,” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Cutout/Decoupage”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2014 “Winter Blues”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Forty Years”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Women, By, Of, About”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Sea Change-The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition”, Marx and Zavattero
2011 “Project Space: Black and White”, New York, NY
2010 “All that Glitters”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “Summer Group Show”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “Click”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “See Jane Run,” Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2002 “Register This,” Z Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Behind Closed Doors,” The Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
2001 “The Inaugural Exhibition,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Best of Show,” Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2000,” Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
2000 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“New American Talent”-Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, TX, and University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburgh, TX
“Juried Annual Exhibition,” Pro Arts, Oakland, CA (Larry Rinder, juror)
1999 “Tender,” Juried Group Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, 
 San Francisco, CA
“A Vision Honored,” Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA 
 (Linda Connor, juror)
“New American Talent – The Fourteenth Exhibition,” Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX.

Selected Collections:

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Adobe Systems Inc., San José, CA
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Art Collection, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY

Bibliography:

2009 Van Proyen, Mark, “Liséa Lyons: Marx &Zavattero,”Art In America, October
Eisenhart, Mary, “Don’t Miss:Lineage”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, p.12
2008 Fort Baker Retreat Group LLC, Lisea Lyons (artist monograph to accompany work on view in the Cavallo Point Artist Program, with essay by Thom Sempere)
2007 Farr, Kristin, “Liséa Lyons: Something Borrowed,” KQED Arts & Culture Online, April 23
Martini, Tiffany, “These are not your ordinary family photos,” San Francisco Examiner, April 10, p. 19
Nataraj, Nirmala, “A Girl’s Life,” SF Weekly (Night & Day section), April 4,
p. 20
2006 Nataraj, Nirmala, “‘See Jane Run’ at Bedford Gallery,” Artweek, July/August,
p. 15-16
2002 Cash, Stephanie, “Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving,”
Art in America, No. 11, November, p. 67
Keats, Jonathon, “Liséa Lyons,” ARTnews, September, Vol. 101, No. 8, p. 160
Berry, Colin, “ ‘The Inaugural Exhibition’ at Heather Marx Gallery,” Artweek, February, Volume 33, Issue 1, p. 25
Fischer, Jack, “Documentary Photographers Find Intimate Moments of Truth,” San Jose Mercury News, February 12, p. 1F, 3F