Joan Lyons

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Joan Lyons (born 1937) is an American artist. Lyons was born in New York, New York.[1] In 1971, Lyons founded the VSW Press at the Rochester-based Visual Studies Workshop.[2] In 2007 the Rochester Contemporary Art Center held a retrospective of her work. Another retrospective was held in 2023 at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.[3]

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[4] the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago,[5] the Museum of Modern Art,[6] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,[7] and the National Gallery of Canada,[1] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts[8]

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  1. ^ a b "Joan Lyons". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  2. ^ Michael R. Peres (20 June 2014). The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution. CRC Press. pp. 241–. ISBN 978-1-136-10181-6.
  3. ^ "Artifacts". The MFAH Collections. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org.
  5. ^ "Joan Lyons". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Untitled, Joan Lyons | Mia". Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  7. ^ "Joan Lyons". NMWA Library & Research Center. Retrieved 14 March 2023.