Lisa Kereszi grew up outside Philadelphia with a mother who ran an antique shop and a father who ran the family junkyard. In 1995 she graduated from Bard College, and moved to New York, working as an assistant to Nan Goldin. In 2000 she received an MFA from the Yale School of Art, where she has been a lecturer since 2004 and critic since 2012, and is now also the director of undergraduate studies in art.
Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and many others. She was granted a commission to photograph Governors Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003, which culminated in shows in NYC and a book. Her book on striptease, Fantasies, was published by Damiani in 2008, and one on escapism, Fun and Games, was released by Nazraeli Press in 2009. Her 2012 book Joe’s Junk Yard is about her family’s business and was published by Damiani. He latest book is an artist book published by J&L Books in 2014, The More I Know About Women. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York.
