Yale School of Art Visiting Artist Series

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024

Thank you Yale School of Art and Yale Photo for having me as a visiting artist + to Aliaksandra Tucha for the invite.

ICP PHOTOBOOK FEST 2023

Book Signing: Saturday, May 13, 4 PM
International Center of Photography, 79 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002

This year’s Photobook Fest will expand into ICP’s galleries to host 50 leading and independent photobook publishers from more than 10 countries, showcasing their latest image-based books, magazines, and zines.

AIPAD Photography Show 2023

Friday, March 31 – Sunday, April 2, 2023
Book signing: Saturday April 1, 2023, 1 PM

Center415 | 415 5th Avenue, New York City

Momentum Gallery

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Paris Photo 2022

November 10 – 13, 2022

L’ARTIERE booth SE2
Grand Palais Ephemere 2 Pl. Joffre, 7 5007 Paris, France

J. Sybylla Smith In Conversation with Holly Lynton

October 2022
Episode #49

Bare Handed utilizes traditional craftsmanship as a portal into the rich complexities of culture, history, and art in rural America and the deep South.
Holly Lynton melds form, content, and meaning in her strikingly beautiful images, capturing the lives of those providing our sustenance, while protecting our land. Lynton’s compositional framing, lush palette, textural tones, and transformative gestures craft a meditative beauty. Accompanying essays provide context for cultural contradictions, associations, and representations — speaking to the role art has played to perpetuate or reveal them.

Read J. Sybylla Smith’s Introduction

ICP PHOTOBOOK FEST 2022

Thursday Night Photo Talk with Holly Lynton at TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

December 3, 2020 
TILT Institute, 1400 N. American Street Suite #103 Philadelphia, PA 19122

Holly Lynton talks about her upcoming monograph, Bare Handed, and discusses current work.

Listen to the Talk

Fidelity Corporate Investments Collection Acquisition

In 2023, The Fidelity Corporate Investments Collection acquired: 

• Graveley Ranch Haystack, Avon, Montana, 2018

• Burst, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2010

• Shrimping on the Miss Sandra, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2016

• Hands, Clark Fork Organics, Missoula, Montana, 2016

• Weir Fishing, Chatham, Massachusetts, 2017

• Tunnel, 2005

Cassilhaus Acquisition

2023

Sienna, Turkey Madonna, Shutesbury, Massachusetts has been acquired by Cassilhaus collection, Chapel Hill, NC.

Bare Handed acquired by Library Collections:

Thank you to the following institutions for their recent library acquisitions of Bare Handed:

MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Columbia University, VMFA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, LACMA, Amon Carter Center of American Art, Casalinilibri, Amherst College, Mass Art, Sächsische Landesbibliothek

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University Acquisition

September 2022

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States

The Bare Handed book and print of Haystack Wall, Graveley Ranch, Avon, Montana, 2018 have been acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Meeting Tonight wins Duke Collection Award 2023

The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library has announced that my series Meeting Tonight is a winner of the 2023 Duke Library Collection Awards. Since 2015, the The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collection awards have recognized excellence in documentary film, photography, and audio, with the chance to have a body of work archivally preserved and exhibited at Duke. 

2023 Lucie Foundation Fine Art (Professional) Scholarship Award

Beyond the Bounds received an Honorable mention for the 2023 Lucie Foundation Fine Art Professional Scholarship Award. 

Thank you to the judges, Meaghan Looram, Putri Tan, and Molly Everett.

Hopper Prize

2023

Holly Lynton was a finalist for the Fall 2022 Hopper Prize. 

GLC Fellowship 2019

2018 - 2019

Yale University

Holly was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition for her series on Methodist Camp Meetings in South Carolina. 

Listen to the talk

Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship 2022

2016

Holly Lynton was a recipient of the prestigious Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant for her series Bare Handed.

Stephen, Mayflies, Oklahoma has been acquired by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in conjunction with the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship 2016.

Harper’s Magazine Feature

August 2024

Stephen, Mayflies, Temple, Oklahoma was featured in Harper’s Magazine August issue alongside Hishar Matam's essay "The Eyes of Others."

Of Covid, 2024

+ KGP | MONOLITH

I'm excited to announce that two of my images from my series Unmasked Relationships, which I began during the pandemic in April 2020 and explores teenage sibling relationships, will be published in the book OF COVID by KGP Monolith.

In 2020, COVID forever altered how we work, learn, communicate, collaborate, and perceive the​ value of life. Like so many major world events and catastrophes, it transformed how photographers​ record individual and collective traumas. You could say that all photography made since the outbreak was tangential to it. From imagery of masked protesters and doctors responding to a deluge of sick and dying patients to meditative images made on walks, it seemed like every photograph was made in conversation with the pandemic.

Three years later, as fallout continues to dust our lives, this book is a shared and global photographic response. The images are footnotes to our experience of both collective trauma and interconnectivity. They show artists using photography to mend, salve, process, and understand – to keep going...

Many thanks to Kris Graves, Jon Feinstein, Roula Seikaly, and Nydia Blas for selecting my work for this publication.

Watching the Total Eclipse Across North America

The New York Times.

April 8, 2024

Many thanks to Heather Casey for including me in the line up of photographers documenting the totality for The New York Times.

The Truth of Rural Life

Noblesse

September 2023

Images from Bare Handed were recently featured in Noblesse, a publication out of Shanghai, China

“Lost in a Meditation”: Rural American Life - In Pictures, Edited by Mee-Lai Stone

The Guardian

August 23, 2022

Strange Fire Q&A with Holly Lynton + Jess Dugan

May 5, 2022

Holly Lynton speaks with photographer Jess T. Dugan in a Q&A that explores Holly’s relationship to the medium of photography, her inspirations, curiosities, and her decade-long project, Bare Handed, as well to her book by the same name prior to its publication. 

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women At Yale

Designed by Miko McGinty with an introduction by Elisabeth Hodermarsky and essays by Helen A. Cooper, Linda Konheim Kramer, and Marta Kuzma, 2021, Yale University Press.

Marking the 50th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation at Yale and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art) when it opened in 1869, this volume honors the accomplishments of women artist-graduates of Yale.

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Triggered: Holly Lynton

MUSÉE Magazine

June 8, 2021

Holly Lynton discusses the inspiration behind her photograph Les, Honeybees with MUSÉE Magazine.

Leaves of Grass 

Harvard Design Magazine Issue # 48: America Spring / Summer 2021

April 2021

The exhibition Leaves of Grass, curated by Adam Monohon is turned into a photo essay for this issue of Harvard Design Magazine. Stephen, Mayflies, Temple, Oklahoma, 2009 is featured. 

The America Issue of Harvard Design Magazine, featuring a new design and art direction by Alexis Mark, invites historians, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, theorists, curators, artists, and planners to reflect on the country’s past and present and to imagine sustainable futures. Projects, taxonomies, dialogues, essays, and spatial interpretations explore possible Americas. They allow us to delve into issues relevant to small cities, towns, and rural areas—as well as major urban centers—and to study barriers and opportunities facing communities across the country.

Bare Handed

Documentary Moment, Vol 26, No. 1, Spring 2020, the University of North Carolina Press for the Center for the Study of the American South

April 2020 

A photo essay featuring photos from Bare Handed, and an accompanying written essay by Holly Lynton on “the moment” and how it functions in her practice.

Read Full Article Here

The Spirit and the Food Feeds Them

Gravy No.74, Winter 2019, Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi

January 2019 

Following a commission from Gravy magazine to photograph the labor and food traditions at the South Carolina camp meetings, a written essay, incorporating the research conducted during her fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, appeared alongside her photos in this issue of their quarterly journal.

Agrarian Labors with Biblical Passion at Miller Yezerski

Agrarian labors with biblical passion at Miller Yezerski, Cate McQuaid, June 17, 2014

Photographic Narratives: Unveiling Depth and Authenticity

Workshop

International Center of Photography

May 17-19, 2024 and September 12-21, 2023

How do we develop depth and specificity in our work? How do we move past stereotypes and clichés? In this course, students explore different approaches to photographic narrative-building and storytelling with a focus on both memory and play as creative catalysts. Close attention is paid to the technical aspects of image making and how to develop consistency in a project.

Classes are a combination of presentation, critique, and assignments. Each participant approaches the challenge of creating an authentic artistic voice and learns how to develop multiple layers of any project in order to create meaningful work.

The Provocative Photograph: Crafting Compelling Visual Narratives with Holly Lynton

Workshop

Los Angeles Center of Photography

Session 1: September 12 — October 3, 2022 

Session 2: January 22 — February 26, 2023

Over the course of six sessions, this workshop provides participants with innovative strategies to produce images that are provocative, enigmatic, and lyrical. Students learn to depict people, places, and histories in unprecedented ways. Reconsidering their roles as storytellers, students developed new methods that transform viewers into active participants in the narrative and will learn how to tell complex stories. Holly Lynton will describe how research and archival exploration play an important role in effectively describing the places and communities that become the subject of her projects. In addition, Holly will provide tips on how to gain permission for making photographs in new and exciting territories. 

Rencontres d’Arles Night of the Year Best-of 2024

July 8-September 29, 2024

Beyond the Bounds premiered as a projection at Rencontres d'Arles 2024

24 images were set to an original arrangement of acapella voices and curated by Lauren Graves, Assistant Curator at the Boston Athenaeum.

Beyond the Bounds

Oct 18-Dec 18 2023

"In Beyond the Bounds, Holly Lynton investigates the interplay between religious communion and traditional labor practices against the backdrop of rural America. Manual labor, inextricably rooted in a complex social landscape, is displayed as both an arduous duty and a time-honored practice of spiritual transcendence. Keenly capturing subtle tensions and uncharted narratives, she pushes past our conceived notions of faith as a religious practice to demonstrate how faith permeates everyday life."

Thank you to everyone who attended the opening and my artist talk at Do Good Fund's "Salon Thursday."

Zona Maco Photo

February 7-11, 2024

Altered Images

February 21 - June 30, 2023

Center for Fine Art Photography
321 Maple Street, Fort Collins, CO, 80521

Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, selected two silver gelatin collages from my series The Birds for the Center for Fine Art Photography's exhibition, Altered Images. For this series, annual photographs are taken of falcons that hunt at a farm in decline to show the changes in the landscape over time.

FIlter Photo Context 2023

March 10 - April 22, 2023

Filter Space, 1821 W. Hubbard St, Suite 207, Chicago

Karen Haas, the Lane Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, selected “Les, Honeybees, the Bosque, New Mexico” to receive the 2023 Juror's Choice Award in the Filter Photo exhibition Context 2023.

Meeting Tonight: Two South Carolina African American Camp Meetings

April 06 - September 25, 2022

Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Meeting Tonight: Two South Carolina African American Camp Meetings
This exhibition is a collaboration between Holly Lynton, Maurice Wallace, and the Gospel Materialities Working Group in the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers.

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women At Yale

September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022

Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510, United States

This exhibition showcases and celebrates the remarkable achievements of an impressive roster of women artists who have graduated from Yale University. Presented on the occasion of two major milestones – the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts when it opened in 1869 – the exhibition features works drawn entirely from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery that spans a variety of media, such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, and video.

The title of the exhibition references the phrase used in the landmark 1972 U.S. federal law Title IX – which declared that no one could be discriminated against “on the basis of sex” in any education program receiving federal financial assistance – which forced the School of Art to hire full-time female faculty beginning that year. Amid the rise of feminist movements – from women’s suffrage at the turn of the 20th century to the ERA movement of the mid-20th century, to the #MeToo movement of today – this exhibition asserts the crucial role that women have played in pushing creative boundaries at Yale, and in the art world at large.

Leaves of Grass

May 10 – November 29, 2019

Center For Creative Photography, the University Of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road Tucson Arizona AZ 85721

"In organizing the exhibition Edward Weston’s Leaves of Grass Holly Lynton’s image, Stephen, Mayflies, Oklahoma, 2009, leaped out at me for its many resonances with work made by Weston in the American South. Constructed around pairings of work by Edward Weston and recent acquisitions from the Center’s collection (Lynton’s work came into the collection in 2018) the show intended to create dialogues between images from Weston’s Leaves of Grass project and the work of contemporary photographers.

Set in the rural American South, Lynton’s image lent itself naturally to dialogue with two images of Weston’s made during his time in Texas in the company of famed folklorist J. Frank Dobie. Without relying on common tropes of rurality or the American South, as Weston did, Lynton’s image transports the viewer to that context as effectively as Weston’s own. The harsh light, swarming mayflies, and glistening back of the image’s central figure evokes a visceral sensation of being in the scene, conjuring a uniquely tangible experience of the American South.”

– Adam Monohon, curator