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Sarah Lyon

Primary

  • basic auto care clinic
    • workshops
    • workbook
    • about the instructor
  • photography projects
    • portraits
    • spaces
    • desert
    • female mechanics
    • camera collection
    • moby dick at night
    • bronze boots
    • motorcycle journey
    • auxiliaries
  • news
  • contact
  • bio/cv
Clients and Publications
The Speed Art Museum, Regen Projects, Zephyr Gallery, Brown Wilson Ventures, 21c Museum Hotels,
A-Z West, High Desert Test Sites, Narcissister, Amazon, Louisville Magazine, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Hutch, Trespass, BMW Owners News, Truckers News, Road King, Time Out New York, The Guardian, SF Weekly, You Magazine, the New York Post, Curve Magazine, Frieze
Solo Exhibitions
2017 “Drive” University of Louisville Photographic Archives Gallery, Louisville, KY
2014 “Louisville Portraits and Beyond” Concurrent Solo Show with Lynn Dunbar, Sotheby’s International, Louisville, KY
2013 “Louisville Portraits and Beyond” Concurrent Solo Show with Katrina Del Mar, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012 “Female Mechanics Calendar: 2007-2009” 180 Degrees Automotive, Phoenix, AZ
“Autobiographies” Concurrent Solo Show with Joel McDonald, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
2011 “Wendover Vacation” Salvo Collective, Louisville, KY
2009 “New Work” The Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
2008 “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” Luscious Garage, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Shooting Moby Dick At Night (Searching for the Great White Whale…)” Cochenour Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
2007 “Female Mechanics Calendar, Shooting Moby Dick at Night, Louisville Portraits and Spaces” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY
2005 “Louisville Portraits” The Atomic Saucer, Louisville, KY
2004 “where are you going, where have we been?” Artswatch, Louisville, KY

 

Group Exhibitions
2018 “Live From A Dark Room” UofL Photographic Archives Gallery, Louisville, KY
2016 “A Celebration of the Speed Collection” The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2015 “Half Empty Half Full” Art Market Provincetown, Provincetown, MA
“Female Icons and Identity” The Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY
2014 “Währinger Frauenweg” Pötzleinsdorfer Schlosspark, Vienna, Austria
“Inhabited Gardens: Art from Kentucky” Ascent Private Capital Management, Cincinnati, OH
2013 “Welcome Neighbors: Art from NuLu” The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
“El Campo de Mañana pt. II” Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
“Let’s talk about love baby” iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
“Women Work” Weber Gallery, Louisville, KY
“OFF-SHOOT: Serial Explorations” 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2012 “Young Country” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
“Retrospect” Cressman Center Gallery, Louisville, KY
2011 “Young Country” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Being and Making: Artists Investigating Identity” The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
“Summer Heat” Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
“Young Country” Quonsethut, Louisville, KY
“Brothers and Sisters” Weber Gallery, Louisville, KY
2010 “Photography Invitational Exhibit” Wyatt Center for the Arts, Louisville, KY
“Louisville is the Land of Tomorrow” Land of Tomorrow (LOT), Louisville, KY
“On 2 Wheels: San Francisco Motorcyclists at Work, School and Play” City College, San Francisco, CA
“What Would the Community Think?” The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2009 “50 States Project” www.50statesproject.net
“Twist of the Wrist” The Arctic Ice Building, Louisville, KY
“The Wind in Your Hair” The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
“Holler!” Kinship Gallery, Louisville, KY
2008 “Weight of the World” Reed Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 “Roar Shock” Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY
“2007 DePauw Biennial” Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
2006 “New Kids on the Block” Butcher Block Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Nowhere” New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
“Maiza Hixson, Sarah Lyon, Cynthia Norton” Galerie Steniek, Vienna, Austria
2005 “small works” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Nowhere” Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria
“Video Shopping Cart” Arts Electronic, Louisville, KY
2004 “Photographic Landscapes” Arts Electronic, Louisville, KY
“Celebrating Women” International Convention Center, Louisville, KY
Annual Group Exhibition for Swanson Reed Contemporary, Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY
2003 “Yesterday Today Tomorrow (Repeat)” Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY
“Seeing Is Believing” Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY
“Shooting at 1st and Oak” Oak St. Gallery, Louisville, KY

 

Grants and Awards
2015 A-Z West Wagon Station Encampment Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
ArtPlace America/Creative Innovation Zone, Artist as Civic Innovator Grant
2010 Creative Capital Professional Development Program
Summer Residency Program, The Kentucky Foundation for Women
2005 The Kentucky Foundation for Women Network Partnership Funds
2004 The Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant
The Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Professional Development Grant
2002 The Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant

 

Teaching and Lecture Experience
2015 “Motorcycle Mechanics Workshop for Women” YouthBuild Smoketown Summer Workshop, Louisville, KY
2012 “Urban Cowgirls” Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
“Food for Thought After Dark” Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2007-11 Adjunct Photography Instructor, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
2009 “Artist Dialogues” The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
“Finding Female Mechanics: A Three Year Journey.” The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
2007 “Female Mechanics Calendar Project Presentation.” Women and Work Seminar, Centre College, Danville, KY
“Shooting Moby Dick at Night: Searching for the Great White Whale.” Cochenour Gallery, Georgetown, KY

 

Public Collections
21C Museum, Louisville, KY
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Photographic Archives, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Tradeswomen’s Archive, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
Mazer Lesbian and Feminist Archive, West Hollywood, CA
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

 

Education
2000 BFA, Miami University of Ohio

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