Lisa McCarty’s photographs, books, and videos explore environmentally conscious communities and imagemaking practices.
McCarty has participated in over 100 exhibitions and screenings at venues including the American University Museum, Amherst College, Carnegie Museum of Art, Cassilhaus, Fruitlands Museum, Houston Center for Photography, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Visual Studies Workshop. McCarty’s photographs have also been featured in a variety of international festivals including Noorderlicht, Internationale Photoszene Köln, Picture Berlin, and Sören Kierkegaard in Images, while her moving images have been screened at the New York Film Festival, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, & Small File Media Festival. Her books include Transcendental Concord (Radius Books), The Arboretum Aphorisms of Nathaniel Dorsky (San Francisco Cinematheque), & A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966-1967 by William Gedney (Duke University Press).
McCarty received her MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts from Duke University. She is currently based in Boston where she teaches at Northeastern University and frequents Walden Pond.
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