Lisa Kereszi, Lecturer, Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography

Photographer. Ms. Kereszi graduated from Bard College with a B.A. in photography and a minor in literature/creative writing in 1995. After college she moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to Nan Goldin. In 2000 she received an M.F.A. in photography from the Yale University. She has traveled to Central Asia to teach a group of artists through an exchange program through CEC Arts Link, and recently was a MacDowell Fellow. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Study Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her work has been shown in group shows at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Aldrich Museum, the Bronx Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Urban Center Gallery at the Municipal Art Society in New York, Hunter College, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She had a solo show in May 2002 and again in March 2003 at Pierogi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the latter of which traveled to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where she had solo shows in 2005, 2006, and 2009. Other recent solo shows were held at the Galleries at Moore College in Philadelphia; at the Matrix Gallery at UC Berkeley, as part of her 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers; and at the Yale School of Architecture, NYU, Parsons, Bard College, UNC Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State University. Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, New York, Harper’s, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, GQ, Black Book, Jane, Newsweek, House & Garden, Tokion, Penthouse, Nylon, zingmagazine, Flaunt, and wallpaper*. She was included in the 2003 list of the thirty top emerging photographers by Photo District News and was granted a commission to photograph Governor’s Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003; the latter culminated in shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall and a book. She has taught at the International Center of Photography and has been a visiting artist/critic at many schools and universities. Ms. Kereszi was appointed lecturer in photography at Yale in 2004.