Lisa Ross - Photographer l MIYAKO YOSHINAGA

1964 Born in USA

MFA Visual Arts; Columbia University; New York, NY

MA Adelphi, Elementary Education; New York, NY

BA Libral Arts, Sarah Lawrence College; Bronxville, NY

Currently lives and works in New York City, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2019	I Can’t Sleep: Homage to a Uyghur Homeland - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2017	Living Shrines - Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE
2016	RISE - Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2015	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2014	Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, UK
2014	Behind the Dunes - Kashya Hildebrand, London, UK
2013	Living Shrines of Uyghur China - Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
2012	Desert Mazar - UC Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley, CA
2011	After Night - Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2010	Sacred Rapture - Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland
2009	Pulse (Solo Project) - Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
2009	Rencontres D’Arles, Nan Goldin Curator, Arles, France
2009	Unrevealed - Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, NY
2006	Traces of Devotion - Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005	Sufi Mystical Experiences in Contemporary Xinjiang - Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Group Exhibitions

2018	Tianshui Biennial - Gansu Province, P.R.C.
2018	How Many Miles to Babylon? - Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2015	Beyond 1 - Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York, NY
2011	Sacred Spaces - SLPS Global, New York, NY
2010	Gimme Shelter - Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2009	Living and Dreaming - Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2009	HOW CHINESE - Gallery 456, New York, NY
2009	PS:Parsing Spirituality - Affirmation Arts, New York, NY
2008	If Love Could Have Saved You…You Would Have Lived Forever - Bellwether Gallery, NYC, NY
2008	Cosmological Embeddedness or The Flying Spaghetti Monster - Higher Pictures Gallery, NYC, NY
2007	Fall Vernissage - Dinaburg Arts, NYC, NY
2007	KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (By Invitation Only), New York, NY
2006	Lie of the Land - Murray Guy Gallery, NYC, NY
2003	Spiritual Hunger - Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC, NY
2003	Violent Violence - Art et Amicitiae, Curator Elin O’Hara Slavick, Amsterdam, NL

Awards

2018.	Artist in Residence - View Art Gallery, Lanzhou, China
2016	Asian Cultural Council Grant Recipient
	Asian Cultural Council Grant Recipient
	The Watermill Center Residency Program; RISE Experimental video and performance work
2012	CICRP, French Ministry of Culture Grant; Commission for Marseills 2013, EU Cultural Capital
2009	Bronx Museum Artist In the Marketplace Fellow
2003	Resident Salzburg Fine Arts Academy, Hallein Austria
2001	Hayward Prize, American Austrian Foundation, Juror: Lynne Cooke
2000	Merit Scholarship, Columbia University

Publications

2013.	Living Shrines of Uyghur China, Monograph, by Lisa Ross, Published by the Monacelli Press
2012	Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, University of California, Berkeley
2010	YVI Magazine, Issue 4, Uyghur Holy Sites, p.26-29
2009	Daylight Magazine Multimedia, To Mark a Prayer, (Collaborative Video Podcast)
2008	Steppe Magazine, Summer 2008, On Ancient Central Asian Tracks, (p.50-80)

Lectures/Presentations

2019	Asia Art Archive, New York
2018	View Art Gallery, Lanzhou, PRC
2017	Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE
2015	Shirin Neshat, Susan Meiselas and Lisa Ross in Conversation; Moderator Carey Lovelace; Watermill Center
	Harvard University, Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2014	Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Universtiy of London, UK
	Islamic Soundscape in China - University of London, SOAS, UK
2013	Artist Talk, Rubin Museum of Art
	Sufi Shrines in Uyghur China - Sarah Lawrence College, New York
2012	Shamans, Buddhists and Muslim Saints: The Layered History of the Desert Mazar - University of California, Berkeley
	A Photographic Pilgrimage, Artist’s Talk - University of California, Berkeley
2010	Clifford Chance LLC, New York, NY
2009	Art Asia Week, Conversation with Nan Goldin, New York, NY
	Independent Curators International, New York, NY
	Clifford Chance LLC, New York, NY
2007	Artists Talk on Art - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006	Lie of the Land - Murray Guy Gallery, New York, NY
	Central Eurasian Conference Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
	Turkish Studies Conference - l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
2005	International Conference on Sufism, Music, and Culture - Tlecmen, Algeria

Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Joy of Giving Something, Inc. USA

Higashikawa Awards Collection, Hokkaido, Japan

Teaching Experience

2013-15	Parsons School of Design – Adjunct Professor Arts and Media Technology, Conceptual Landscape
2012	Gotham Academy of the Arts – Brooklyn, New York. Funding through Clifford Chance LLC.
2000-02	Columbia University – School of the Arts, Adjunct Professor in Photography
1990-98	Harvey Milk School – Director of photography, video and arts programming for LGBTQ and homeless youth. Supervision, educator, curator

Lisa Ross American, b. 1964