| Sarah Lyon : P.O. Box 406765 : Louisville, KY : 40204
502.558.3230
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| C.V. |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | “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 |
| 2000 | “New Color Photographs” Buzz Gallery, Oxford, OH |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 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 | |
| 2002 | “Guest/Mutt” Semantics, Cincinnati, OH |
| Education | |
| 2004 | Salon: Preparing for a Career as an Artist with curator Sue Spaid, Louisville, KY |
| 2002 | University of Louisville; Post-Bachelor Studies in Photography with artist Mary Carothers |
| 2000 | BFA, Miami University of Ohio |
| 1999 | Studio Art Centers International (SACI); Semester of study in Florence, Italy |
| Grants and Awards | |
| 2010 | 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 |
| 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 | |
| Teaching and Lecture Experience | |
| 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 | |
| Publications and Press | |
| 2008 | Cengel, Kayta. All Over the Map. The Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY. February 4. |
| 2007 | Heilenman, Diane. Clay isn’t only show around. The Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY. March 11. |
| Lyon, Sarah. Female Mechanics. Biker Ally. Chicago, IL. January/February. | |
| Heilenman, Diane. A woman’s touch. The Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY. January 21. | |
| 2006 | Lyon, Sarah. Female Mechanics Calendar 2007. Self-published. Louisville, KY. December. |
| Harris, Javacia N. On the Road. Velocity. Louisville, KY. December 13. | |
| Triplett, Jo Anne. Photographs by Sarah Lyon. Louisville Eccentric Observer. Louisville, KY. | |
| Newberry, Beth. Sarah Lyon, Photographer. Louisville Magazine. Louisville, KY. October. | |
| Linn, Bruce. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax – and all of the art that sticks in 2006. Louisville Eccentric Observer. Louisville, KY. December 27. | |
| Grinstead, Laura. Open Road. Underwired Magazine. Louisville, KY. Fall. | |
| Kaye, Leslie. Female Mechanics Calendar Project. Urban Moto. San Francisco, CA. | |
| Heilenman, Diane. Pitch aims at Louisville arts scene. Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY. | |
| Gardner, Ann Marie. Nowhere. Pitch Magazine. Louisville, KY. Spring. | |
| Peavler, Penny. “Nowhere” is here. Louisville Eccentric Observer. Louisville, KY. March 8. | |
| Harrison, Hillary. Sarah Lyon: Interview by Hillary Harrison. Bejeezus Zine. Louisville, KY. Issue 8 | |
| 2005 | White, Tiffany. Follow the Feeling. Today’s Woman. Louisville, KY. September. |
| Robson, Julien. Why Here? Nowhere Exhibition Catalogue. Galerie Eugen Lendl. Graz, Austria. | |
| Triplett, Jo Ann. Heads Above the Rest. Louisville Magazine. Louisville, KY. February. | |
| Hatchett, Elizabeth. Sarah Lyon’s “where are you going, where have we been”. Kentucky Foundation for Women website. www.kfw.org/specialpages/sarahlyon.html | |
| 2004 | Barnes, Amy. a New identity. The Courier-Journal Scene. Louisville, KY. March 6. |
| Hill, Bob. Motorcycle odyssey preserved in photos. The Courier-Journal. Louisville, KY. February 12. | |
| Gibson, Kevin. The Photography of Sarah Lyon. Louisville Eccentric Observer. Louisville, KY. | |