Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) is an American photographer and professor from Pennsylvania.

Life and work

Kereszi grew up in Pennsylvania where her father owned a junk yard in Trainer and her mother owned and ran an antique store. Kereszi earned a BA from

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

working with

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and others. After graduating from Bard, she began working as an assistant to

Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ...

. After NYC, she attended

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2000 to earn an MFA. She has been associated with the university since 2004 as faculty. Her work uses color photography and deals with both fantasy and the idea of home. In the realm of fantasy or "places around the cultural fringe", her projects have included haunted houses both operating and during daylight hours,

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dancers, and

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s. For work about home, she photographed her grandfather's junk yard, culminating in a book published in 2012 about which ''

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'' remarked the junkyard was "a perfect place for an artist to be born." She has done commissions for Yale University, '' T: The New York Times Style Magazine,'' and Orion. Her commercial clients include Nike, IBM, and Capitol Records.

Publications

* ''Governors Island: Photographs by Lisa Kereszi & Andrew Moore.'' New York City:

Public Art Fund Public Art Fund is an independent, non-profit arts organization founded in 1977 by Doris Freedman, Doris C. Freedman. The organization presents contemporary art in New York City's public spaces through a series of highly visible artists' projects, n ...

, 2005. . * ''Fun and Games.''

Nazraeli Press Nazraeli Press is a publisher of books of photography. It was founded in 1989, in Munich, Germany, by Chris Pichler and has been based in the USA since 1996. Nazraeli publishes roughly 30 new titles each year and has published over 400 with work ...

, 2009. . * ''Joe's Junk Yard.'' Damiani, 2012. . * ''Lisa Kereszi: The More I Learn About Women.'' J&L Books, 2014. .

Collections

Kereszi's work is held in the following permanent public collections: *

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, New York City *

Ogden Museum of Southern Art The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003. The building The Ogden consists of two main buildin ...

, New Orleans, LA *

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

, New Haven, CT *

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, Brooklyn, New York City

References

External links

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Lisa Kereszi Representation: Yancey Richardson
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kereszi, Lisa 1973 births Living people American critics American women photographers Bard College alumni People from Chester, Pennsylvania Yale University faculty Journalists from Pennsylvania American women academics 21st-century American women Yale School of Art alumni