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Lisa Jaye Young

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, City University of New York
  • M.Phil., art history, City University of New York
  • B.A., fine arts, University of Pittsburgh

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2007–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Thesis chair and reader for art history undergraduate and graduate students; co-organizer Larry W. Forrest Student Art History Paper competition; founder of LIVE/ART/HISTORY, the art history department guest lecture series; chair, LIVE/ART/HISTORY, 2009–12; chair, Exhibitions and Visiting Artists Council, 2009–10.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer 2013
  • Mall Fellowship, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1999–2000
  • Art History Department Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, 1996–99
  • Shortlisted, Fulbright Scholarship, 2002

Organizations

  • College Art Association
  • SECAC
  • ART Table
  • Society for Photographic Educators

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Features contributor, Art Pulse Magazine, 2018.
  • Reviews contributor, Art Pulse Magazine, Burnaway Magazine, 2018.
  • Contributor, Savannah Magazine, 2018.
  • Editor and writer, Aint-Bad Magazine, 2011–present.
  • Editor, three catalog essays, The Cultural Arts Center, Richmond, Va., 2017.
  • Foreword essay, Found Polaroids Project, Aint-Bad: Savannah, Ga., 2017.
  • Review of Mascara, Myrth & Mayhem by Susan Kravitz, Aint-Bad, 2017.
  • Editor, essay by Melissa Messina, VizArt, Atlanta, Aug. 2016.
  • Writer, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles and Palm Beach, Fla., 2015–16.
  • Book review, Photography and Anthropology by Christopher Pinney, Visual Anthropology, 2011.
  • "Girls and Goods: Amerikanismus and the Tiller-Effect," International New Woman in Film and Photography, eds. Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, University of Michigan Press, 2011.
  • "Embodied: The Work of Srdan Kovacevic," Monograph, Fall 2011.
  • "Why Go Anywhere Else," catalog essay for exhibition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer and Fall 2010.
  • "Endless Supply: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Retrospective," Chicago Art Journal, University of Chicago, 2007.
  • "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like," Bonds of Love, exhibition catalog essay, John Connelly Presents, New York, 2005.
  • "Taking Inventory: William Henry Fox Talbot," Part 8: Journal of the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Art History, 2003–04.
  • Quarterly reviews, Tema Celeste, 2001–04.
  • Interviews with artists, Celluloid Cave, Thread Waxing Space, May 10–June 7, 1997.
  • Exhibition catalog, Do-It-Yourself, Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, England, April 23–May 1997.
  • "Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath," Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1997.
  • "Nobody Will Give You Freedom. You Have to Take It: Méret Oppenheim, Beyond the Teacup," Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, Sept. 1996.
  • "Michael Joseph: Proxy," Zing Magazine, vol. 3, Fall 1996.
  • "Spiritual Minimalism: The 1995 Carnegie International Exhibition," Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1996.
  • "Gary Hill at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo: Reading the Body vs. Touching the Text," Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, Sept. 1995.
  • "A Free-Flowing Geometry," Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jan. 1995.

Curatorial

  • Co-curator with Melissa Messina, Entanglements, Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, Ga., Summer–Fall 2019.
  • Co-curator, Aint-Bad: Collaborations, Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, Ga., Spring–Summer 2019.
  • Curator, AINT-BAD Magazine, Issue No. 8, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, Ga., Fall 2014.
  • Curatorial consultant, Community Foundation of the Low Country's Fall 2013 Outdoor Public Sculpture Exhibition, Hilton Head, S.C., Fall 2015–Winter 2016 and Fall 2013–Winter 2014.
  • Director, Firehouse Art Gallery, six exhibitions per academic year, Fall 2000–Spring 2003.
  • Co-curator, The Photographic Baroque, The Long Island Center of Photography, Fall 1998.
  • Co-curator with Sarah Gavlak, Flaming June, The Art Exchange Show, June 1996.
  • Co-curator, Hick, E.S. Vandam, New York, June 1995.
  • Co-director/assistant, Deitch Projects, New York, 1993–96.

Symposia

  • "Industrial Healing: Photography as Witness and Collaborator." Presented at The Arts in Society Annual Conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, June 2014.
  • Paper presentation at German Studies Association, Denver, Colo., Fall 2013.
  • Paper presentation at Material Culture in the Space Between, 1918–1945 Conference, Brown University, Providence, R.I., 2012.
  • Panel chair and committee member for The Madness of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2012.
  • Panel chair and committee member for Africa on My Mind, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2010.
  • Discussant at New Museum, New Museology, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2008.
  • Co-organizer for Images for the Millennium: A Long Island Focus on Photography, The Long Island Center of Photography, Nassau County Community College, 1998.
  • Co-organizer for Critical Speed, Fifth Annual Graduate Center Art History Student Symposium, 1998.