lisa mccarty
july-August 2021

Lisa McCarty is an artist, curator, and writer based in Dallas, Texas where she is Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Methodist University.

McCarty has participated in over 80 exhibitions and screenings at venues such as the American University Museum, Amherst College's Eli Marsh Gallery, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Cassilhaus, Chicago Photography Center, 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, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Cairo Video Festival, and Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival.

Her books include Transcendental Concord (Radius Books), The Arboretum Aphorisms of Nathaniel Dorsky (San Francisco Cinematheque), William Gedney: Only the Lonely (University of Texas Press), & A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966-1967 by William Gedney (Duke University Press).