Public Art Lightbox Installation
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024
Elevated, Solo Exhibition, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, April – May
Solitude in Populous Cities, Maloof Gallery, Atlanta, March – April
2023
The Boundary Times Between Night and Day, Solo Exhibition, Liaigre in conjunction with Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, June – October
2022
Dark Cities, Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, Italy, January 27 – March 26,
Dark City, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, January – February
2019
The City and Solitude, Through the Lens Gallery, Durham, NC, October – November
2017
NYC “Grand Central Revealed”, MTA Arts for Transit Lightbox Exhibition, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY, 2017-2020
Dark City: Urban America at Night, Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy, Charlotte, NC, 2018
Dark City, Griffin Museum’s Atelier Gallery at Stoneham Theatre, Boston, MA, Feb 7 – Apr 9th, 2017
2016
Dark City, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France, September- October, 2016
Dark City: Urban America at Night, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL, October – December
Dark City: Urban America at Night, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, curated by Michael Panhorst, July-September 2016
NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, January – February
2015
Dark City, A retrospective Photographic Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Stephen Hilger, August – October
Dark City, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Martha Schneider, October – December
Dark City, Florida School of the Arts, Palatka, FL, August – October
2014
The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, January – March 2014
2013
Vacancy, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Feb – March, 2013
2011
Solo Exhibition, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, January – March
2010
Night/Shift, Zoe Bingham Fine Art, London, UK, December 2010
2009
Night/Shift, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, July
Night/Shift, Kayafas Gallery, Boston, MA, July
2008
Night/Shift, Stephen A. Austin State University, TX,
Night/Shift, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2007
Lynn Saville: Night Vision, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Feb – July
Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, Florida, July – October
Hiram College, Hiram, OH, Nov – December
2006
42nd Street Nocturne, New York City MTA, Arts for Transit (Public Installation), 7 Large Light boxes in 42nd street Bryant Park subway station, New York, NY
Lynn Saville: The Color of Night, President’s Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
2005
Night Vision: Photographs of William Gedney & Lynn Saville, Duke University, Durham, NC
Paris: Night’s Edge, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2004
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2003
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City
2002
Brooklyn Public Library, New York
2001
Hiram College, Frohring Art Center, Hiram, Ohio
2000
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
1999
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Federazione International Artistici Fotografia, Turin, Italy
1998
Gente di Fotografia, Palermo, Italy
1997
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
1995
Columbia University School of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley, CA
1994
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Photonica Gallery, New York
1993
Photo-four Gallery, South Suburban College, Chicago
1992
Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1990
University of Texas at Dallas, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026
Triennial New York Now: After Dark at MCNY, Museum of the City of New York, Curated by Sean Corcoran and Marina Chao, New York, NY, November 2026 – March 2027
2025
Celebrating 30 Years, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, July – August
Photo Basel International Art Fair, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
The Language of Color, Group Show, Atlanta Photography Group, Curated by Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor of the Guardian, UK, 2025
2024
APG’s Choice 2024, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Curated by Mason Karelson of The Mason Fine Art Gallery and The Path Museum, February – March
2023
MIART Milan International Art Fair, Alessia Paladini Booth, April, 2023
Coco Conroy Selects 2023, Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, November – December 8, 2023
The Summer Show!, Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, IT, June 29-September 15
Breaking More Boundaries, Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Avenue Long Island City, Queens, NY, June-July 2023
Landscape Re-Imagined, Photo London Art Fair, Alessia Paladini Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK, May 2023
Under the Mask, Curated by Lisa Volpe, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, April 2023
APG’s Choice 2023, APG Gallery Atlanta, GA, curated by Crista Dix, Executive
Director, The Griffin Museum on Winchester, MA February-March 2023
2022
Breaking More Boundaries, honoring Mariette Pathy Allen, Culturelab, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Orestes Gonzalez and Jesse Egner, June – July, 2022
Under the Mask, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, curated by Lisa Volpe and Crista Dix, April – May, 2022
The Altered Environment, North Carolina Museum of Art, curated by Maya Brooks, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator at North Carolina Museum of Art, March – August 2022
LIGHT, A Smith Gallery, Curated by Aline Smithson, 103 N Nugent Ave, Johnson City, TX, February – March 2022
Size Matters, Medium Festival of Photography San Diego, California, February, 2022
2021
Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, December 2021
MIA Milan Art Fair, Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, Italy, October 2021
The Magic is in the Seeing: Philip Perkis and his Creative Legacy, Undercroft Gallery, New York, New York, September 14 – November 14, 2021
At Night, curated by Lance Keimig, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas, June 11 – September 5, 2021
Travelling without Moving, Galleria Alessia Paladini, Milan, Italy, July 19 – September 4 2021
Open Up Your Archives, South x Southeast Gallery, curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Molena, GA, March – April 2021
30 over 50, Center for Fine Art Photography, curated by Hamidah Glasgow, Ft. Collins, CO March – April 2021
2020
Distinction, curated by Kris Graves Pacific Center North West, Seattle, WA March – June, 2020
Still Contemporary#, Hodges Taylor Gallery, curated by Lauren Harkey, Charlotte, NC
Sept – Oct
Faculty Exhibition, curated by Alicia Kubes, Kimmel Hall, New York University March – December, 2020
Members Show 2020, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York, February – March 2020
The Magic is in the Seeing: Philip Perkis and his Legacy, Undercroft Gallery, Curated by Abby Robinson, Ellen Wallenstein, Kristin Holcomb and Lynn Saville, August – October 2020
2019
Women Photographers Today, The Space Nau Bostik, Julia Margaret Camera Award Winner for Cityscape , Barcelona, Spain, April 2019
Faculty & Student Exhibition, NYU/SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Art Exhibition, Kimmel Galleries, curated by Alicia Kubes, New York, NY Jan – April 2019
2018
From the Ground Up, curated by New York Foundation for the Arts Curatorial at McKinsey & Co., New York, NY July 2018 – January 2019
Chasing the Light: Photographs by Lynn Saville & Kristin Holcomb, Fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY, March 2018
2017
NIGHT[Light] Exhibition Group photography exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, September-January 2017
2018
Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Brooklyn Historical Society exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park Warehouse, curated by Marilyn Symmes, Brooklyn, NY, April-September 2017
2016
The Radiant Sea, at Yancey Richardson Gallery New York, NY, July 2016
Lux: Manchester and the Modern American City, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, June – September
Urban Landscapes: Manchester and the Modern American City, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, June – September
Into the Night: Modern and Contemporary Art and the Nocturne Tradition, Tucson Museum of Art, curated by Julie Sasse, Tucson, AZ
2015
Neo-Pre-Proto-Post-Photography, Triangle Photography Festival, curated by Elin O’Hara Slavick, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
Photographing Both Sides of Sunset, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Fall
Photographing Both Sides of Sunset, Hamburg Kennedy, New York, NY, June – August
Sky Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, WInchester, MA, February
Spotlights, ICP International Center of Photography, New York, NY, January
2014
Poetics of Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, December
Curator’s Choice Exhibition, Pro Arts, Jersey City Art Museum, Jersey City, NJ, October
Looking Back Six Years: Selected New Acquisitions, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME April – June
Stories in the Social Landscape, ICP Faculty Exhibition, New York, NY Dec 2013 – March 2014
2013
Clouded Presence, Gallery Ho, Curated by Liz Kwon, New York, NY
What Remains, Monticule Art, Kirkland & Ellis, Curated by Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Photo ID, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA
Nocturnes, College Saint Elizabeth, Florham Park, NJ
Into the Night, Tucson Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
Installation of artists from permanent collection, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The Space in Between, Photographic Resource Center “PRC”, Boston, MA
2012
New York in Color, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Urban Landscape: Vacant Spaces, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Curator’s Choice, Jersey City, NJ
2010
Incognito: The Hidden Self Portrait, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Glitz & Grime, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Night Moves, Farmani and Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
The Photographer’s Eye, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
American Identities, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Darkness, Darkness, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007
Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
American Identities, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Exterior, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2006
Brooklyn, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Muse Exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Lynn Saville – Sam Oppenheim – Photography, ICON Iowa Contemporary Gallery, Fairfield, IA
2005
Photographing the Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
20/20: The Night Photographs of Lynn Saville and William Gedney, Duke University, Durham, NC
Picturing Central Park, Central Park Conservancy Commission: 2004, Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
At the Crossroads of Desire A Times Square Centennial, AXA Gallery New York, NY
New York Show, Opelousas Museum, Opelousas, LA
2003
Tanqueray No. Ten, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2001
Girls on Top, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France
Aesthetics of Contemporary Photography, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
2000
From Here to There, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Three American Night Landscape Photographers, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2000
Deutsche Bank
Yancey Richardson Gallery
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
Zur Stockeregg Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Backyards, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
H2O, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Monuments and Memorials, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1991
Nikon House: New York
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1990
Chevron Corporation Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SPECIAL PERMANENT EXHIBITION:
Poet’s House, New York City in “The Green Room”: 29 Portraits of Poets
ARCHIVE:
Duke University, Durham, N.C. The David M. Rubinstein Rare Book, Manuscript Library
GRANTS and AWARDS:
2022 Pollock-Krasner Grant
2021 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Cityscapes
2017 MTA Arts for Transit Commission to Document “Grand Central Revealed”
1999 New York State Council for the Arts Grant
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship
1998 Premio Award, Scanno, Italy, Festival of Photography
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Guggenheim Museum
New York Historical Society
MTA: Arts & Design Art Collection
Metropolitain Museum of Art (New York)
Art Institute of Chicago
North Carolina Museum of Art
International Center of Photography
National Portrait Gallery, London
Prudential Financial
The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Milwaukee Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Museum of the City of Paris
Museum of the City of New York
California Museum of Photography
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House
Oxford University, Bodleian Library
New York Public Library
BOOKS:
New York, Photographs by Lynn Saville;
Part of a series on cities entitled LOST;
Kris Graves Projects; Long Island City, 2018
Dark City: Urban America at Night, Photographs by Lynn Saville;
Introduction by Geoff Dyer;
Damiani, Bologna, 2015
Night/Shift: Color Photographs by Lynn Saville;
Introduction by Arthur C. Danto;
Random House/ The Monacelli Press, 2009
Acquainted with the Night, Rizzoli, 1997
The Language of Life, Bill Moyers, 1995
Horses in the Circus Ring, E.P. Dutton, 1989
PUBLICATIONS:
“Road Trip”, featured artist Lynn Saville, published by Dek Unu Magazine online and in print, www.dekunumag.com, September Issue 2021
“The Archeology of Overnight”, the foreword to my book Dark City, published in See/Saw, a collection of essays by Geoff Dyer. To be published in UK in 2020 by Canongate and in 2022 in Graywolf
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland, Review of Dark City: Urban America at Night, January 2016
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, Review of Solo show at Pratt Institute by Vince Aletti, August 2015
The Independent, London, UK, Arts & Books, Review of Dark City: Urban America At Night, June 2015
The New York Times, Sunday Edition, Metropolitan Section, August 2015 Feature “Between Day and Dark” by John Leland
Prattfolio 125th Anniversary Issue: Alumni View | Lynn saville, page 70-71, Spring 2012
Exit #43: By Night (Madrid, Spain); August 2011: “Portfolio: Twilight Borders”
Boston Globe, September 17, 2009 “Critic’s Pick”
Boston Globe, September 30, 2009 “Review of show”
Monthly Photography, Seoul, South Korea, “Portfolio and Interview”, By Minny Lee, March 2008
Photo Review, 2008 “Bridges”
The New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure, January 5, 2003
Duke Magazine, Spring 2003
2wice Magazine, Spring 2003
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, 2001
The New York Times, Sunday Arts & Leisure, July 1995
The Manhattan Review, covers since 1995
“Art in Review” Charles Hagen, New York Times, 1995
“Voice Choices” Vince Aletti, The Village Voice, 1995, l993
Duke Magazine, 1995
Milkweed Chronicle, 1995
Harper’s, May 1995, April 1994
Popular Photography, 1993
Lighting Dimensions, Fall, 1992
PRESS:
Women in Motion, a panel discussion in conjunction with Vivian Maier: Unseen Work, Fotografiska, New York City, June 4, 2024
“Making Darkness Visible”, Lenscratch, Saville was the guest editor at Lenscratch for this series of articles (published May 31- June 3), which included selections of her own work alongside those of several contemporary photographers. Interview by Aline Smithson, May 2022. Additional articles can be found at the bottom of the webpage.
“In mostra a Milano / Lynn Saville, Dark Cities and Dark Profits”, Doppiozero, by Gigliola Foschi, March 9, 2022
“Exhibition Review: Lynn Saville: Dark Cities”, Musée Magazine, by Aaron Norton; Edited by Hillary Mitchell, February 16, 2022
Feature in Lensculture, Lensculture, Exhibition review by W. Scott Olsen, 2022
Appears in Issue Year XXVIII #78 of Gente Di Fotografia. Print Edition, 2022
Digital Photo Magazine, July 2019, interview and portfolio feature in print and online editions by Jill Waterman
L’Oeil de la Photographie article Notre-Dame de Paris, in the section called Vu d’en haut, Lynn’s photo of Notre Dame is the fourth one, April 19, 2019
PDN Photo District News August 2018 print edition Fine Arts Section, cover photograph
Under the Cover of Dark, a Photographer Captures a Changing City by Eillie Anzilotti, published in The Atlantic’s CITYLAB, Jan 27, 2016
iPhotoCentral Photo Books: Cities Dark and Light By Matt Damsker Dec 7, 2015
New York Captured Between the Day and the Dark, New York Times Print Edition and Online by John Leland, August 27th, 2015
The Archaeology of Overnight, The New Yorker “Photo Booth”, By Geoff Dyer, October 7th, 2015
Finding the Perfect Time of Dat to Photograph America’s Changing Cities, Slate.com “Behold Blog”, by David Rosenberg, August 27th, 2015
Review of Dark City, The New Yorker, Print Edition, Review in Art Listings Section, Fall 2015
Review of Dark City, The Independent UK, Print Edition, Fall 2015
Tips from a Pro: Lynn Saville’s Tips For Photographing After Dark, Popular Photography, print and online, by Peter Kolonia, August 2015
Lynn Saville: Dark City, Urban America at Night, artdaily.org
Damiani anounces the publication of Dark City: Urban America at Night, Photograph and Essay, Lynn Saville, Spring, 2014
Baseball Field, Venice, CA, Browsings, The Harper’s blog, Lynn Saville, September 28, 2015
Lynn Saville and her Dark City, Professional Women Photographers Blog, by Fredda Gordon, 2015
Lynn Saville’s “Dark City” @ Pratt Institute’s Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, Review, Backyard Opera, August 30, 2015
Lynn Saville @ Pratt Institute’s Photography Gallery, F-Stop Magazine, August 19, 2015
Lynn Saville’s Version of Night Photography, Lomography, Review by Kwyn Kenaz Aquino, July 13, 2015
In Shifting Light: Urban Landscapes by Lynn Saville, Terrain, October 18th, 2015
Lynn Saville’s “Dark City” @ Pratt Institute’s Photography Gallery, Brooklyn, Juxtapoz, Review, August 25, 2015
Dark City: Urban America at Night – photography by Lynn Saville, Arbus.com, September 2015
Lynn Saville Captures the Dark City, TheSpaces.com, by Betty Wood, September 18, 2015
Seen: The Green Hand | Boston Society of Architects, Photograph and Essay, Lynn Saville, Spring, 2014
Empty Photographs, Photo Essay, Alicia Eler, March, 2014
Review: Lynn Saville and Reuben Wu/Schneider Gallery, February, 2014
New York Times Sunday Review : Eloquent Empty Spaces, Photographs, Essay, and online slide show: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Big Red & Shiny Blog, Gallery Kayafas review, Robyn Day, March 2013, Big Red & Shiny Blog
Lynn Saville Vacancy, April 21, 2012, Journal de la Photographie
iphotocentral.com e-Photo Newsletter review of Night/Shift by Matt Damsker, January 4th, 2012, iphotocentral.com
Bright Nights: Photographer Lynn Saville sees New York City in a Certian Light, New York University Alumni Magazine, issue #14, Spring 2010
“Scenes From the Night Shift”, 2010, Opinionator Blog, NY Times
Brian Ulrich, Interview by Lynn Saville, 2010, BOMBSITE
“Photo of the Day Today, please take a look!”, 2010, Photo District News
“Daylight Magazine”, 2010, Daylight Magazine
Camera Club of New York, 2009
The New York Times – Arts & Leisure, “New York Photographs” , Review of Glitz & Grime Exhibition, By Ken Johnson, August 13, 2009
Review of Night/Shift, Duke Magazine, Fall 2009
“ART: Lynn Saville”Interview by Nick Stillman, 2009, BOMBLOG [local archive]
Woman Around Town: Lynn Saville – Photographing the Night, Sunday, July 19th, 2009, Woman Around Town [Also The Space in Between – Public Scenes Minus People, December 2012
A Conversation with Lynn Saville June 2009, Nymphoto
Eyemazing Magazine,(Interview and Portfolio), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Issue 4, 2009
“Night/Shift: An interview with Lynn Saville”, By Robert A. Schaefer, Jr., June 2009, Double Exposure [local archive]
“New York at Night with Photographer Lynn Saville”, 2009, Flavorpill
“Night Vision: Photographs of William Gedney and Lynn Saville”, 2005, Duke Libraries article
The New York Times – Arts & Leisure: “Acquainted With the Hour That Falls Before the Night”, By Ginger Danto, January 5, 2003
Black and White Magazine, (Cover article): “Spotlight – Lynn Saville”, Shawn O’Sullivan, March 2003
Art News: “Lynn Saville and Andrew Moore” , (Yancey Richardson Gallery exhibition review), By Sarah Valdez, May 2003
Duke University Alumni Magazin: “Night’s Edge” , By Maria Park Bobroff, Spring 2003
Leica Fotografie International: “Award for Lynn Saville”, (Scanno Photo Prize), January 1999
Leica View: “Lynn Saville – Master of Highlights and Shadows” , May 1999
Leica Fotografie International: “The Click is the Kick” ,May 1996
FILM:
Traveling Through the Dark: The Night Photography of Lynn Saville, Directed by Anna Boden, 2003
NPR National Public Radio: “A New York Moment: Lynn Saville”, WNYC Video about my work on WNYC radio/website, January 2010, NPR National Public Radio
When in Rome, Disney, 2008: photograph “Roof Garden” exhibited on wall of art curator’s home.
EDUCATION:
Pratt Institute, M.F.A., 1976
Duke University, B.A., 1971
Master Class with Philippe Halsman, New York, 1979