Artist Bio

Robert Lyons received his BA in Photography from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) and his MFA from Yale University (New Haven, CT). Lyons’ work has been shown internationally for forty years, including exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, (Kansas City, MO), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA) and the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA). He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has published several books, including Who Decides?, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, Another Africa, and Egyptian Time. His work is included in the collections of  the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA) and Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA)

 
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  • Robert Lyons, Studio, 2003
    Studio, 2003
    c-print
    88.5 x 64"
  • Robert Lyons, Untitled, Pictures from the next day 2, 2008/2012
    Untitled, Pictures from the next day 2, 2008/2012
    archival inkjet print
    24 x 36" image
    28.5 x 40.5" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Unaccompanied Minor, Section 26, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, 1996
    Unaccompanied Minor, Section 26, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, 1996
    Chromogenic dye coupler print
    30 x 20"
  • Robert Lyons, Miriam Crying II, Berlin, 2003
    Miriam Crying II, Berlin, 2003
    archival inkjet print
    36 x 24" image
    40.5 x 28.5" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Grand Hotel, Kairo, 2002
    Grand Hotel, Kairo, 2002
    archival inkjet print
    24 x 36" image
    28.5 x 40.5" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Untitled, 2015/2016
    Untitled, 2015/2016
    archival pigment print
    48 x 60" image
    53" x 65" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Untitled, 2015-2016
    Untitled, 2015-2016
    archival pigment print
    30 x 24" image
    38 x 31.5" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Rubber Soul (3), 2019
    Rubber Soul (3), 2019
    archival pigment print
    27 x 22.25" image
    30 x 24" paper
    34.5 x 29.25" framed
  • Robert Lyons, Rubber Soul (4), 2019
    Rubber Soul (4), 2019
    archival pigment print
    26 x 22.25" image
    30 x 24" paper
    34.5 x 29.25" framed
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