Lilly McELROY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 So Long, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ

2018 A Lonely Forest, Cottey College P.E.O. Foundation Gallery, Nevada, MO

2017 I’m Here Now What?, The Suburban, Walker’s Point, Milwaukee, WI

[NatureNature], Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2016 I Control The Sun and Other Selfless Acts, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA

2015 I Control The Sun, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY and KMR Arts, Washington Depot, CT

2011 Tough Love…, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

2010 2009 Was A Rough Year, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL

2009 I kicked a dog, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2008 I throw myself at men,  Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Lilly invites you to watch the sunset with her, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Lilly invites you to watch the sunset with her, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Locations, Lionel Romback Gallery, Tucson, AZ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, AND PERFORMANCES

2021 If 6: RWFA Artists and Friends, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2020 The Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (Forthcoming)

2019The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery, The Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Body Slam, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

Flumblelovelifekisturbingandflexy, ASC Gallery, London, UK

Lineage and Impact: KCAI Faculty Past and Present, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO

2018 You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, ME

Venus Occults Jupiter, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY

Infinity, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY

Making Social, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2017 Light Year 21: Peering Behind Appearances, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY; Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

Inverse Performance Art Festival, Cuesta College & SLO Museum of Art, St. Louis, Obispo, CA

Screen Projects, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY

Vision All Together, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO

2016 Lost in Space: Contemporary Photographers and the New Landscape, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN

No Horizon, Robert H Goddard Planetarium, Roswell, NM & Planetario de La Universidad de Santiago, Santiago, Chile

2015 A Woman Runs Through a Pastoral Setting, PULSE Play, New York, NY

Chrome Green, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

Same As It Ever, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY

Staking Claim, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Test Run. Take it Outside: performance in public space, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

2014 Code X 2: I Am I Said, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA #Awkward, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO

Interchange, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA

Love Kills, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

This Might Not Be For Now, Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY, & Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Canon Fodder, Hughes Fine Arts Center, University of North Dakota, Grad Forks, ND

How Many Feminists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?, Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL

This House is Just Like Your House, Maine International Film Festival,Waterville, ME

Quick Response, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Ready for Their Close-Up, Brant Galler, MassArt, Boston, MA

Only a Signal Shown, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 Hail Traveler! The Photographer as Tourist and the Tourist as Subject, Rick Wester Fine Art,  New York,  NY

Gravity, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Isolations, The Lunch Box Gallery, Miami, FL

Theater of the Absurd, Perspectives Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI

Indweller, Archer Gallery, Clak College, Vancouver, WA

Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts, Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

2010 Love Sick, Stills Gallery, Paddington, Australia

Framed, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Aspect EZ: Strangely Funny, Godine Family Gallery, Boston, MA

2009

Gravity Buffs, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Backlight: Tickle Attack, TR1, Tampere Finland

Hello Liberty, Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Chicago and Leipzig, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, & Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF/GOD AGAINST ALL, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO

2007 Out of the Blue, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA

The Bees:  Something Swarming Something, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

Told and Retold: Stories from Chicago, The Devos Art Museum, Marquette, MI

Free Rein/Full Play: New Chicago Photography, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St Louis, MO

Biennial Exhibition, Air Gallery, New York, NY

I Got Here First, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA

2006 WPA/C’s Experimental Media Series- Cowboys, Clichés, Codes, and Conspiracies, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Sisyphean desires, systems and devices, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Golden Girls: Fantasies, Utopias and Alter Egos, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

2005 Wish/Alchemy, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

Video Heart, Modern Formations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Selfish, Project Space, Chicago, IL

Cross Cuts, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS

Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

FIGGE Art Museum, Davenport, IA

JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY

Private collections, New York

Private collections, Connecticut

Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta, GA

Seillier Art Collection, London

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2020 Durant, Mark Alice, editor. Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling, Saint Lucy Books

2019 Durant, Mark Alice, Saint Lucy, October 18th, http://saint-lucy.com

2018 Shindelman, Marni and Anne Leighton Massoni, editors “Antimodernism and the Performative Photograph” The Focal Press Companion to the Contracted Image in Contemporary Photography. Routledge

2016 Durant, Mark Alice, Saint Lucy, September 27th, http://saint-lucy.com

Carey, Brainard, Interviews from Yale University Radio, June 27th http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interview/?s=Lilly+McElroy

2015 McElroy, Lilly. “Teaching a Falcon to Read”, STEDT: Poetry, Prose, & Inquiry, Summer Issue 1, pg. 8 -17

“Can I Throw Myself at You” Correct!V BookZine , Issue 02, pg. 120-131

2014 Newhall, Edith. “Galleries: A fine show of ‘something else’” The Inquirer, August 10

Corman, Catherine. “New Wave Women: AIPAD, Huffington Post. June 11

“Statements:  Lilly McElroy” Temporary Land Bridge. April 17th http://temporarylandbridge.com/2014/04/17/lilly-mcelroy/

2012 Makarechi, Kia. “I Throw Myself At Men: Lilly McElroy’s Photography Finds Truth In Discomfort” Huffington Post. January 21st

Murphy, Heather. “An Artist Who Literally Throws Herself at Men” Slate. February 1st.

Dumas, Daisy.  “Meet the woman who literally throws herself at men.” Daily Mail. January 24th

2011 Wang, Lina, “Show Me That You Love Me”, Vision Magazine, September, pg. 210 -217

“Throwing Herself At Men”, Sleek Maganzine, Autumn, pg. 44

Waxman, Lori, “Lilly McElroy”, Artforum, March 2011, pg.272

Niv, Tal, “Flight of Fancy”, Haaretz Magazine, February 8, pg. 8

Algae, “Lilly McElroy”, Lens, March, pg 36-47

Sherred, Kristine, “Community Confessional”, New City, January 20, pg. 15

Weber, Candice, “Lilly McElroy”, Time Out Chicago, January 13-19, pg. 48

2010 Durant, Mark Alice, “Photography & Performance”, Aperture, Summer Issue:199, pg. 31-37

2008 Asper, Colleen, Beautiful Decay, Issue Y,  pg.63-67

Yood, James, Art on Paper, Sept/Oct 2008, Vol.13 NO.1, pg. 89

Waxman, Lori, Modern Painters, June, pg.97

O: The Oprah Magazine, July, Vol. 9 NO.7, pg. 32

Bust, Dec/Jan 09, pg. 12

Goddard, Joanna, Elle Magazine, MayNo..273, pg 172

McClure, Kelly, “She throws herself at men”, Chicago Reader, March 20, pg.  16-17

LaRepublica delle Donne, February 16, No. 585, pg.72,

2007 Shrug Magazine, August issue “Just can’t get enough”, Capricious Magazine, Issue #6

Liberation, August 7, page IV

TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

2018 - present University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Adjunct Faculty

2016 - present Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS, Adjunct Professor

2010 - present Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, Summer Media Lab Associate

2019 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Mentor

2018 Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS Adjunct Faculty

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, Visiting Artist

2016 New York Film academy, Burbank, CA, adjunct Professor

2012 – Present California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, Adjunct Professor

2010 – Present Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, Summer Media Lab Associate

2007 - 2008 Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS, Instructor  

2004 - 2006 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, Installation Manager

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

2019 Mills College Art Lecture Series, Oakland, CA

University of Maine Orono Lecture Series, Orono, ME

2018 University of Southern Missouri, Warrensburg, MO

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ

2016 Playful/Violent Gestures, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA

2015 Skowhegan Conversations – Above the Sea of Fog: New Encounters in Landscape, Portland, ME

2011 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN  

2010 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

2007 Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA

RESIDENCIES

2019 Prairieside Outpost, Matfield Green, KS

2017-19 Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency Program, Kansas City, MO

2017 MOCA Tucson Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ

2008/2009 Fine Arts Work Center, Winter Fellow, Provincetown, MA2006 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

EDUCATION

2006 MFA, Studio Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2004 BA, Creative Writing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

2003 BFA, Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Honors Cum Laude