New Book: The Arboretum Aphorisms of Nathaniel Dorsky, Edited by Lisa McCarty
Lisa’s book, Transcendental Concord, is featured in Publish Your Photography Book by Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius Himes
Lisa’s film Seeing Spacecraft Earth was featured in the Onion City Experimental Film Festival, cosmic Rays Film Festival, & Mimesis Documentary Film Festival
Lisa presenting Nell Dorr’s work at the Boston Athenaeum’s What They Saw Reading Room
Lisa (far left) on stage at the Tate Modern for the Fast Forward: How Do Women Work Conference
Bedroom Window 2011-2013 on the cover of Southern Cultures
NEWS
Summer 2024 | NEW BOOK: The Arboretum Aphorisms of Nathaniel Dorsky (2nd Edition), Edited by Lisa McCarty, Published by SF Cinematheque
Summer 2024 | NEW BOOK: Work from my series You & I Are Earth is featured in Of COVID, edited by Kris Graves & Jon Feinstein, Published by KGP + Monolith Editions
Summer 2024 | Grant Funding: The Puffin Foundation has awarded my project You & I Are Earth with one of its annual Artist Grants. I’d like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
Summer 2024 | Residency: Directangle Press, Bethlehem, NH
Spring 2024 | Group Exhibition: AIR LOOM, Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC
Spring 2024 | Group Exhibition: You & I Are Earth is featured in a group exhibition on view at Calgary Contemporary from February 2 - March 3 as part of the Exposure Photography Festival in Alberta, Canada.
Fall 2023 | NEW BOOK: My book Transcendental Concord is featured in Publish Your Photography Book (3rd edition) by Mary Virginia Swanson & Darius Himes
October 2023 | Group Exhibition: Memento Mori Biennial, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Curated by Ashley Czajkowski
September 2023 | Online Artist Talk: “Framing Grief” organized by Lesly Deschler Canossi & Anthoula Lelekidis. September 28 at 7pm EST.
August 2023 | Guest speaker at The Photographic Book Today: An Overview of Traditional & New Publishing Options, workshop taught by Mary Virginia Swanson at Santa Fe Workshops| July 31-August 4
Spring 2023 | Screenings: Seeing Spacecraft Earth at Onion City Experimental Film Festival + San Diego Underground’s Heavy Light Festival.
Spring 2023 | Group Exhibition: Beyond the Horizon, Curated by Christina Wytko Marchington at Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
March 2023 | Spotlight Talk at the Boston Athenaeum, Part of 10x10 Photobooks What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women 1843-1999 Reading Room
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 | Seeing Spacecraft Earth travels with Cosmic Rays Film Festival Touring program. Screenings at:
UnionDocs, New York, NY
Vertical Cinema, Iowa City, IA
International Film Series,Boulder, CO
Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, WI
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
June 2022 | Residency: Plant Humanities Lab, Dumbarton Oaks + Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Spring 2022 | Screenings: Seeing Spacecraft Earth at non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taipei, Taiwan + Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
December 2021 | A Time of Youth included in The International Center of Photography’s Top Ten Photobooks of 2021
October 2021 | Screening: Seeing Spacecraft Earth at Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
August 2021 | Screening: Seeing Spacecraft Earth at Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO
July-August 2021 | Artist in Residence at Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
June 2021 | Photo Essay published in Photo Essay published in Southern Cultures
June 2021 | Book Review: A Time of Youth reviewed in Aperture
April 2021 | Interview on Humble Arts Foundation: The Reanimation of William Gedney, Over Fifty Years After the Summer of Love
March 2021 | Book Review: A Time of Youth reviewed in Vogue Italia
February 2021 | Book Review: A Time of Youth reviewed in SF Weekly
February 2021 | Book Release: A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966-1967 by William Gedney, Edited by Lisa McCarty, published by Duke University Press
December 2020 | Book Release: The Arboretum Aphorisms now available via San Francisco Cinematheque
October 2020 | Group Exhibition: A Yellow Rose Project at Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
September 2020 | Odette England and Lisa McCarty are collaborating on an image-based conversation at A New Nothing
August 2020 | In the News: Suffrage Photos Build a Bridge from the Past to the Present by Shannon Thomas Perich on the NPR Picture Show (Features my project Votes for Women 1920/2020)
August 2020 | Screening: Dear Opportunity at Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO
August 2020 | Screening: Flutter at the Small File Media Festival, Vancouver, CA
May 2020 | Screening: Dear Opportunity at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NYApril 2020 | Cover Image, Southern Cultures, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2020
April 2020 | Group Exhibition: Female in Focus, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
March 2020 | Group Exhibition: 14th International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2020
January 2020 | Group Exhibition: The Qualities of Light, Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZDecember 2019 | Book Review: Lisa McCarty: Transcendental Concord by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
November 2019 | Conference Presentation at Fast Forward: How Do Women Work?, Tate Modern, London, UK
October 2019 | Solo Exhibition: Transcendental Concord at Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
October 2019 | Solo Exhibition: Photosite Array at Granary Arts, Ephriam, Utah
July 2019 | Article Published: Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, Volume 9: Archives and Histories
May 2019 | Group Exhibition: Punkt Linie Fläche Raum, Internationale Photoszene Köln, Cologne, Germany
May 2019 | Group Exhibition: Chronology: A People’s Ordering of Events, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NYMay 2019 | Group Exhibition: New Blood: Recent Discoveries from the Cassilhaus Collection, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC
February 2019 | Book Review: “Winter’s Silent Songs” by Suzanne Révy on What Will You Remember Blog
January 2019 | Group Exhibition: No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
December 2018 | Book News: Transcendental Concord included in Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books of 2018 List
Transcendental Concord (Radius Books) reviewed in PDN by Conor Risch
December 2018 | Book News: Transcendental Concord selected for Photo-eye 2018 Favorite Photobooks of 2018 by Lauren Henkin
November 2018 | Book News: Transcendental Concord included in PDN’s Notable Photo Books of 2018 list
November 2018 | Book News: Paris Photo Book Signing at the Grand Palais, November 9, Radius Books Booth, SE-28
October 2018 | Panelist: Contemporary Photobook Workshop, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2018
October 2018 | Lecture: Transcendental Concord, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
October 2018 | Group Exhibition: New Arrivals Photobook Exhibition, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
October 2018 | Group Exhibition: Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
September 2018 | Visiting Artist & Solo Exhibition: Amherst College, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
September 2018 | Book Review: Photo-eye Blog Book of the Week
June 2018 | Book Release: Transcendental Concord published by Radius Books
June 2018 | Group Exhibition: Shared History, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
June 2018 | Group Exhibition: IN VIVO: The Nature of Nature, Museum Belvédere, Heerenveen, the Netherlands
May 2018 | Book Review: Life in the Woods Through a Literary Lens by Conor Risch, Photo District News, May 2018
May 2018 | Residency: Visual Studies Workshop Project Space, Rochester, NY
April 2018 | Group Exhibition: Month of Photography Los Angeles Photobook Exhibition
February 2018 | Group Exhibition: Instant Gratification, Curated by Aint-Bad, Redux Contemporary Arts Center, Charleston, SC
January 2018 | Web Feature: Thinly Veiled at Cassilhaus by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
January 2018 | Group Exhibition: Thinly Veiled, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC
November 2017 | Book Review: A Spotlight on the Season's Best Photography Books, by Luc Sante, The New York Times
October 2017 | Group Exhibition: Instant Gratification, Curated by Aint-Bad, Atlanta School of Photography, Atlanta, GA
October 2017 | Group Exhibition: Instantaneous, Anchorlight, Raleigh, NC, Part of the Click! Photography Festival
September 2017 | Book Review: William Gedney: A Photographer Exiled in His Own Land by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian
September 2017 | Contributor: Aint-Bad, Issue 12: Curator's Choice
September 2017 | Book Release: William Gedney: Only the Lonely: 1955-1984 published by the University of Texas Press
July 2017 | Web Feature: Daylight Digital: Lisa McCarty: Transcendental Concord by Kirsten Rian
April 2017 | Exhibition: Literary Spirits at the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA, Curated by Shana Dumont Garr
March 2017 | Group Exhibition: Participating Artist in Debtfair at the Whitney Biennial
March 2017 | Web Feature: Impossible Project Magazine: Book Release: Circles
March 2017 | Press: For Photography, A New Way Forward, The Denver Post
March 2017 | Group Exhibition: Between the Medium curated by Mark Sink at the RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
December 2016 | Panel Discussion: Archiving LGBTQ+ Lives, Forum for Scholars & Publics, Duke University
November 2016 | Web Feature: Don't Take Pictures: Some Assembly Required
October 2016 | Web Feature: Humble Arts Foundation Group Show 50, 'Roid Rage
September 2016 | Screening: Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Watershed Cinema, Bristol, UK
September 2016 | Conference Presentation & Screening: ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 8, Reuter Center, Asheville, NC
July 2016 | Screening: 2-Minute Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art & Row House Cinema, Pittsburgh, PA
July 2016 | Web Feature: Actions of Light, Unseen, Oxford American, Eyes on the South, July 11, 2016
July 2016 | Jetzt los, geht's los oder is it the other way around?, Photographic Salon at Fotohaus, Curated by Kaetha, Arles, France
July 2016 | Screening: Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
June 2016 | Screenings: Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL& Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
May 2016 | Screening: UNX Fest, Unexposed Microcinema, Durham, NC
April 2016 | Exhibition & Commission: Lake Eden at the Interlude Festival, Asheville, NC
April 2016 | Screening: Experiments in Cinema 11.4, Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
March 2016 | Featured in Square Magazine's special issue commemorating the Holga
February 2016 | Feature on Mysterious Facts: A Conversation with Lisa McCarty by Jay Turner Frey Seawell
January 2016 | Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer, Nominee, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
January 2016 | Feature on Phases Magazine
December 2015 | Exhibition: Developer Drawings, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
October 2015 | Group Exhibition: Neo-Pre-Post-Contra-ParapAnti-Hyper-Pro-Trans-Ultra-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
July 2015 | Group Exhibition: Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
July 2015 | Group Exhibition: Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
June 2015 | Screening: Positioning Systems, Curated by Zach Nader, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
May 2015 | Exhibition: Developer Drawings, Cassilhaus Gallery, Durham, NC
May 2015 | Web Feature: FotoFilimic 2015 Shortlist, 2015
May 2015 | Screening: Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Union Theatre, Milwaukee
May 2015 | Screening: Something Said Only Once Festival, Flagstaff, AZ
April 2015 | Screening: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
March 2015 | Screening: Prime Time, Asheville Art Musuem, Asheville, NC
March 2015 | Group Exhibition: Das kann so gewesen sein..., Galerie Luzia Sassen, Bonn, Germany
November 2014 | Screening: Cairo Video Festival, Medrar Center for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
October 2014 | Press: Unique as a painting, quick as a flash, Polaroid photos find a place, The New Orleans Advocate
October 2014 | Group Exhibition: Self Processing: Instant Photography at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art
October 2014 | Included in the Diffusion Annual: The Matter of Light curated by Katherine Ware
September 2014 | Group Exhibition: Readymade@100 at the American University Museum
August 2014 | First IMDB Listing! Still Camera Credit for Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air, Directed by Phillip Warnell
May 2014 | Curatorial Project: An Everyday Affair: Selling the Kodak Image to America 1888-1989 at the Center for Documentary Studies
May 2014 | Collaborative work with Monika Radhoff-Troll featured in Kunst Tour Maastricht
April 2014 | Every Filter in Final Cut Pro included in the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Shorts Program 2: Summon With Flags, Logan Theater
December 2013 | 5 Rooms | 5 Photographers Featured on LENSCRATCH
December 2013 | Group Exhibition: 5 Rooms | 5 Photographers at Guthrie Contemporary during PhotoNOLA
November 2013 | Solo Exhibition: Lumen at Artisphere, Arlington, VA
November 2013 | Group Exhibition: Sören Kierkegaard in Images, Escuela Motivarte de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 2013 | Video Premiere: New York Film Festival - Views From the Avant-Garde
September 2013 | Panel Discussion: Inspired by the Lens, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
September 2013 | Group Exhibition: 10 at Chicago Photography Center
August 2013 | Nominee: Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards
July 2013 | Feature in Duke Alumni Magazine: Rigorous Experimentation