| Lisa Kereszi | |
| Birth Date: | 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Chester, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Field: | Photography |
Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) is an American photographer and professor from Pennsylvania.
Kereszi grew up in Pennsylvania where her father owned a junkyard in Trainer and her mother owned and ran an antique store. Kereszi earned a BA from Bard College working with Stephen Shore and others. After graduating from Bard, she began working as an assistant to Nan Goldin. After NYC, she attended Yale University in 2000 to earn an MFA. She has been associated with the university since 2004 as a faculty member.
Her work uses color photography and deals with both fantasy and the idea of home. In the realm of fantasy or "places around the cultural fringe",[1] her projects have included haunted houses both operating and during daylight hours,[2] burlesque dancers, and strip clubs. For work about home, she photographed her grandfather's junkyard,[3] culminating in a book published in 2012 about which The New York Times remarked the junkyard was "a perfect place for an artist to be born."[4]
She has done commissions for Yale University, ,[5] and Orion. Her commercial clients include Nike, IBM, and Capitol Records.[6]
Kereszi's work is held in the following permanent public collections: