Born in 1963, Beth Lilly grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia.
She studied film production and screenplay writing as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia and took a photography class her last semester. . She continued studying photography on her own while working a variety of jobs – serving on the film crew of “Friday the 13th: Part 6”, producing radio ads and assisting commercial photographers.
Accepted into the MFA Photography program at Georgia State University,she graduated in1993. She went on to serve as Senior Photo Editor and then Director for the Turner Broadcasting photography department until 2002, when she left to concentrate on artwork.
Recent exhibits include The Photographic Resource Center at Boston College, the Columbus Museum of Art, a solo show at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Woodstock Center for Photography. Her work has been reviewed in Arts Papers, Lens Culture and published in The Photo Review and Atlanta Magazine.
Permanent collections include MOCA GA, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Eleanor D Wilson Museum, and the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund.
