Lisa M. Beard
lisabeardart@gmail.com | www.lisambeard.com
Solo Exhibitions:
2025: Head On Photo Festival, Featured Exhibitor: Because It’s There, Sydney, Australia.
2021: Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts, Selections from The Yellow Glove Series, Nizhniy Tagil, Ural, Russia.
2021: SpacePlace Gallery, Selections from The Yellow Glove Series, Nizhniy Tagil, Ural, Russia.
2019: St. Xavier University, Photographs from The Yellow Glove Series, Chicago, IL. USA.
2019: Perspective Gallery, Phantom Limb, Evanston, IL. USA.
2018: Perspective Gallery, UnOccupied, Evanston, IL. USA.
2017: McHenry County College, Selections from The Yellow Glove Series, Crystal Lake, IL. USA.
2016: Center on Halsted, Selections from The Yellow Glove Series, Chicago, IL. USA.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025: At Hand, At Present: Collage and the Practice of Making Do, Mid-America College Art Association, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. USA. Juror: Nick Larson.
2025: Good Impactful Photography, Float Photography Magazine. Curators: Jon Feinstein and Dana Stirling. Online. https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/good-impactful-photography.
2024: Human Stories. ArtDoc Photography Magazine. Online. https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/human-stories
2024: Nice; 02, Midwest Nice Art, JFAC Gallery, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD. USA. Jurors: Epiphany Knedler and Tim Rickett.
2024: The Curated Fridge Spring Show, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA. USA. Jurors: Alexa Cushing and Connor Noll.
2023: Homecoming 2022/2023, RIT City Space Gallery, Rochester, NY. USA. Jurors: Alanna Airitam, Dana Stirling, Eric T. Kunsman, Michael Chovan-Dalton, and Yoav Friedlander.
2023: The Curated Fridge Summer Show, Culture LabLIC, NY, NY. USA. Juror: Orestes Gonzalez.
2023: Scapes, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL. USA.
2022: Maine Media College, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rockport, ME. USA.
2022: Troy University International Art Center, Huo Bar Zhu Gallery, Troy, AL. USA.
2022: Montgomery Photo Festival, Kress on Dexter, Montgomery, AL. USA. Juror: Anna Walker Skillman.
2020-21: #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, International Center for Photography (ICP), New York, NY. USA. Curator: David Campany.
2020: Female in Focus, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. USA. Juror: Lisa Volpe.
2019: Childhood, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. USA. Juror: Anne Berry.
2019: Human Representation, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS. USA. Juror: Linda Robinson.
2018: Empty Places: Abandoned Spaces, Praxis Photographic Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. USA. Juror: Carl Corey.
2018: Forgotten, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. USA. Juror: Blue Mitchell.
2018: Home, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC. USA. Juror: Aline Smithson.
2018: CounterCulture: Hidden Stories of Chicago Past and Present, Bucktown Gallery, Chicago, IL. USA.
2018: Domesticity, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS. USA.
2018: 6th Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL. USA.
2018: Women in Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. USA.
2017: Orange is the New Black, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, CA. USA.
Honors and Awards:
2024: Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist.
2024: Klompching Fresh 2024 Finalist, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. USA.
2017: Honorable Mention. "Orange is the New Black." Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th, San Diego, CA. USA.
2017: Honorable Mention. Conception Arts Show, Dovetail Brewery, Chicago, IL. USA.
Curatorial/Publishing Work:
2025: Associate Editor, Fractured, Christiaan-Lopez Miro. Disparate Projects. Print.
2025: Co-Curator, Archive the West, Midwest Nice. Online. https://www.midwestnice.art/on-view/archivethewest
2024: Co-Curator, Distant Dialogues, Float Magazine. Online. https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/distant-dialogues
Publications, Media, and Talks:
Good Impactful Photography. Float Photo Magazine. Print. 2025. Page 69.
Youth. Broad Magazine. Print. 2025. Page 52.
The Hand: The Magazine for Reproduction-Based Art. Print. Fall 2023. Issue 42. Page 16.
#ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis. International Center of Photography. Print. November 2021. Page 227.
Ten Year Anniversary Book. Perspective Gallery. Print. June 2020. Pages 6-7.
Artist Talk, Photographs from The Yellow Glove Series, SXU Gallery, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL. October 2019.
Artist Talk, Abandoned Illinois: Secrets Behind the Spaces, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, USA. July 2019.
“Highlighting What’s Been Left Behind: D-200 Library Director Writes ‘Abandoned Illinois: Secrets Behind the Spaces.” The Northwest Herald. Print and Online. https://www.nwherald.com/2019/03/01/highlighting-whats-been-left-behind/adjjxxe/. March 2019.
Ten Years of Photographs. Midwest Center for Photography. Print and Online. http://www.mwcponline.com/ten-years-of-photographs.html. February 2019.
Abandoned America: Abandoned Illinois: Secrets Behind the Spaces. America Through Time, Arcadia Publishing. January 2019.
“Secrets Behind Spaces: 12 Chilling Photographs of Abandoned Places in Illinois and Their History.” Wanderlust Travel Magazine. Online. https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/photo-gallery-abandoned-spaces-illinois/. February 2019.
Meet Lisa Strout Beard. Online. http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-lisa-strout-beard/. September 2018.
Orange is the New Black: A National Juried Art Exhibition. October 2018. Pages 9-10.
Public Collections/Private Collections:
Various Photographs. The Family Health Community Partnership. Crystal Lake, IL. USA. Donated 2017.
"The Wedding March" from The Yellow Glove Series. Private office of The Wachowskis. Chicago, IL. USA. Acquired 2016.
Education:
MFA: Media Arts, Nov. 2022, Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, USA.
MS.Ed w/ Administrative Licensure, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
BFA: English/Psychology/Secondary Education, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA.
Member of the Following Organizations/Collectives:
Disparate Projects, 2023 - Current.
Perspective Fine Art Photography Gallery, 2017-2021.
Illinois Artist List, Joined 2017.
Filter Photo, Joined 2017.