Beth Lilly’s projects engage viewers in narratives in innovative ways. Her cellphone/performance art project, “The Oralce@Wifi” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2012 and was featured in “Noplaceness”, published in 2011. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, The Hagedorn Gallery and MOCA GA. Group shows Slow Exposure Photography Festival and New Mexico Museum of Art. Born in Charlotte North Carolina, Beth Lilly received an ABJ from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Georgia State University. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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, Georgia
2007 “Trees: 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
2013 “A Sense Of Place”, curated by Atlanta Celebrates Photography, transportation mall corridors, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA
2012 Slow Exposures Photography Festival 2012
“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”, Clayton Gallery, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
“Outside The Frame”, Atlanta Photography Gallery, APG, Atlanta, Georgia
“Little Things Mean A Lot”, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
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 “14th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
“Gifted”, Atlanta Celebrates Photography Annual Public Art Project and concurrent exhibition, MOCA GA
2008 “Chance Operations” Climate Theater , San Francisco, California
“Columbus Museum Bienial”, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Georgia
“Adventures in Mysticism”, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia
“Photo Spiva 2008”, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri
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”, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York.
“Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography”, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisianna
“Introversions”, galerie m.c., Atlanta, Georgia
2004 “Southeastern Juried Exhibition” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
“Alternative Processes”, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York
“The Photo Review Competition: Best of Show”, University of the Arts, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
2013 Board member, Atlanta Photography Group
2012 Society for Photographic Education Southeast Region Grant
Honorable Mention, Slow Exposures Festival, Jurors Brett Abbott (High Museum) & Julian Cox (Fine Art Museum San Francisco)
2009 Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Annual Public Art Project Grant
2008 Honorable Mention Award, Photo Spiva, juror Rod Slemmons, (Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College)
2007 Artist Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center, Fulton County GA
2004 Honorable Mention, The Photo Review, juror Kate Ware (Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
1993 Individual Artist’s Grant, Dekalb Fine Arts Council, Dekalb County, Georgia