About Beth Lilly
Beth Lilly is an artist whose photographs, installations and videos investigate how we become what we are and the role choice, chance and circumstance play in that ongoing evolution. Her work resides in the permanent collections of the High Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, MOCA GA, the Zuckerman Museum and many private collections. Her critically acclaimed performance/interactive project “The Oracle @ WiFi” was published by Kehrer Verlag and other projects have been featured in ‘Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape’ and ‘Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment’. Recent exhibitions include New Mexico Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Zuckerman Museum, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Whitespace Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. A Hambidge Fellow, she also received grants and awards from the Atlanta Photography Group, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Fulton County Arts Council, Society for Photographic Education and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in such publications as Lenscratch, Lensculture, Art Papers, Papermag, Burnaway, The Bitter Southerner, Atlanta Magazine and ArtsATL. In addition to her personal work, she teaches, curates, and serves on the Board of the Atlanta Photography Group. Lilly holds an MFA in Photography from Georgia State University and an A.B.J. in Telecommunication Arts from the University of Georgia. She currently lives and farms in Clarkston, Georgia.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 "The Seventh Bardo", The Do Good Fund Gallery, Columbus, Georgia
2024 “The Seventh Bardo”, The Circle Gallery, UGA’s College of Environment + Design
“The Seventh Bardo”, Southeastern Center for Photography, Greenville SC
2023 “The Seventh Bardo,” Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Pop Up Exhibition,
Pike County GA
“The Seventh Bardo”, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta GA
2017 “Knowing and Not Knowing”, Forward Arts Foundation, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016 “Marking Time: The Zuckerman Cairn”, a permanent interactive sculpture, Zuckerman Museum of Art,
Kennesaw, Georgia
2015 “Beth Lilly: A Moving Image of Eternity”, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2014 “Like No Tomorrow,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2012 “every single one of these stories is true”, The Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
“Beth Lilly: Oracle”, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins Colorado
2008 “Beth Lilly: The Oracle @ WiFi”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Myths, Monsters, and Manipulations”, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2006 “The Myths of Trees”, Vanderbilt University, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2004 “The Myths of Trees”, Eleanor D Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “You Are Here”, Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Juror Brian Piper, Assistant Curator of Photographs, New Orleans Museum of Art, Zebulon, GA
2020 “Strange Time”, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta GA
“Ensemble”, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta GA
2019 “Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions”, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Choice, Chance and Circumstance”, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2016 “What Is Near: Reflections On Home”, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
2015 “Seventh Juried Annuale”, The Light Factory, Charlotte NC, juried by Dennis Kiel
2013 “Portfolio 2014”, curated by Karen Irvine, Atlanta Photography Group
“A Sense Of Place”, curated by Amy Miller, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
“Artists Photographing Artists”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
2012 Slow Exposures Festival 10th Annual Exhibition, Jurors Julian Cox and Brett Abbot, Georgia
“The Airport Show: 2012”, Atlanta Photography Group exhibition at the airport atrium, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
“From Cosmology To Neurology And Back Again”, Whitespace, Atlanta Georgia
“Paper Moon”, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
“Ones to Watch”, Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, curator Mary Stanley
2011 “Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment”, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe New Mexico
“Home”, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
“Brett Abbott Selects”, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta
2010 “Woman’s Work”, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2009 “14thAnnual Juried Exhibition”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 “Chance Operations” Climate Theater, San Francisco, California
“Columbus Museum: King Biennial”, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Georgia
“Adventures in Mysticism”, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia
2007 “New Works”, Online Gallery, Silver Eye Center For Photography, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
“Young Movers and Shakers”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta,
Georgia
2006 “Inventing Nature”, Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur, Georgia
2005 “Photography Now: 2005”, curated by Bill Hunt, Woodstock Center for Photography, NY
“As They See It: Georgia Photographers” Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
“Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography”, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2004 “The Myths of Trees” (solo), Eleanor D Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
“Southeastern Juried Exhibition” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
“Alternative Processes”, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York
“Landscapes” galerie m.c., Atlanta, Georgia
“The Photo Review Competition”, University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
2003 “The Essence of Nature”, The Swan Coach House, Forward Arts Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Collections
High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe NM
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta Georgia
Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, Atlanta GA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Hollins University, Roanoke Virginia
Bibliography
Monographs
· Lilly, Beth, ‘The Oracle @ WiFi, Kehrer Verlag’, Heidelberg, Germany 2012
· Cullum, Jerry, Fox, Catherine and Hicks, Cinque, ‘Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape’ Atlanta Art Now, 2011
· Ware, Katherine, ‘Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment’, New Mexico Museum of Art, 2011
Awards, Grants & Honors
2024 Michael P Smith Fund for Documentary Photography - Honorable Mention
2023 Critical Mass Top 200
2022 Critical Mass Top 200
2021 Critical Mass Top 200
2015 Commission of permanent installation, “Marking Time” Zuckerman Museum of Art, Permanent Art
Installation
2014 APG/High Museum Purchase Award
2013 Studio Artist Residency, Contemporary Art Center of Atlanta
2012 Society for Photographic Education, Grant
2011 Critical Mass Top 200
2009 Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Annual Public Art Project Grant
2007 Artist Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center, Fulton County GA
2004 Honorable Mention, The Photo Review, University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, juror Kate Ware
1993 Individual Artist's Grant, Dekalb Fine Arts Council, Dekalb County, Georgia - 1993