2000 • M.F.A. Photography, Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale, NY

1994 • B.A. Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2028 • Ten Thousand Haystacks, Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY

2026 • Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom

2023 • Beyond the Bounds, Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA

2022 • Meeting Tonight, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2020 • Bare Handed, Williston School, Easthampton, MA

2017 • The Birds, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO

2016 • Bare Handed, Filter Space, Chicago, IL

2015 • Bare Handed, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL

2014 • Pioneer Valley, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2011 • Fleeced, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL

2010 • Holly Lynton, selections from SolidGround and Bare Handed, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

2009 • Bare Handed, Office of the Provost, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2008 • Holly Lynton, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany

2006 • Solid Ground, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY

2005 • Orange Tickle, (video installation), Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2004 • Mean Ceiling, Mixed Greens, New York, NY

2000 • In Between, curated by Stephanie Theodore, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY

2023 • Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award, Rubenstein Library, Duke University

2023 • LUCIE Scholarship Awards, Honorable Mention

2023 • Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Nominee

2023 • Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Nominee

2021 • Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50 2021

2020 • Photolucida, Critical Mass 2020, Finalist

2019 • Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellowship

2016 • Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Award

2015 • St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, Finalist

2015 • Maud Morgan Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Finalist

2013 • Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Award

2013 • Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Nominee

2013 • Syngenta Photography Award, First Prize

2012 • Prix Pictet Photography Prize, Nominee

2011 • Artist Resource Trust Grant, Massachusetts

2011 • SOS Guilds Artist Grant, New York

2010 • Daylight Magazine Photo Awards, Honorable Mention

2025 • Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, KS, Artists in Conversation Series

2024 • Yale School of Art Visiting Artist Series, Yale School of Art and Yale Photo, New Haven, CT

2024 • Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

2023 • Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (in Conversation with Senior Curator Susan Cross)

2023 • Penumbra, New York, NY (Artist Talk)

2023 • The Do Good Fund + SPE, Columbus GA (Artist Talk)

2023 • Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC (Artist Talk)

2022 • Baden Württemberg Seminar at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany (Artist Talk and Workshop)

2022 • Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in conversation with Maurice Wallace

2022 • Photo SC, Columbia, South Carolina (Artist Talk)

2021 • Yale University, IMPACT Conference, “Representation & the Power of Art” (Panel)

2020 • TILT, Philadelphia, PA, Thursday Night Photo Talk (Artist Talk)

2020 • Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, GA (Artist Talk)

2019 • Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University: Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Camp Meetings. New Haven, CT (Presentation)

2019 • MacMillan Center at Yale University: Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Camp Meetings. New Haven, CT (Presentation)

2019 • Artist Talk, Graduate Seminar: Representing the American West, Yale University, New Haven CT

2025 • Strange and Familiar Places, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City MO

2024 • Nuit de L'Année (Night of the Year) Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France

2024 • Bare Handed, Momentum Gallery, Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico

2023 • Context 23, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL, curated by Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2023 • Bare Handed, Momentum Gallery, AIPAD Photo Show, New York, NY

2023 • Altered Images, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, curated by Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator Photography, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2021 • On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

2021 • UnBound10! Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA

2021 • Human / Nature, Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China

2021 • In Conversation with the Land, curated by Karen Haas Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2021 • Four Degrees: Eco Anxiety and Climate Change, Strange Fire Collective and Humble Arts, New York, NY

2019 • Edward Weston’s Leaves of Grass, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2018 • We Feed the World, London, UK

2017 • Animal as Metaphor, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2017 • On Freedom, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY

2016 • FIX, Photo London, London, UK

2016 • Photo Finish, Station Independent Gallery, New York, NY

2015 • Field Study, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015 • The Natural Order of Things, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO

2015 • Fraction of a Second, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2015 • Wilderness, Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2014 • Manger un Mur – des Affiches Nourrissantes pour un Monde Indigeste (Eating a Wall – Nourishing Images for an Indigestible World), Cultural Centre Les Chiroux, Liège, Belgium

2014 • Massachusetts Cultural Council Photography Awards Exhibition, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

2013 • Syngenta Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, England

2013 • 20/20 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Groningen, Netherlands

2012 • What’s in a Face, Panoptican Gallery, Boston, MA

2011 • Outlands: Land Over Time, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011 • Faculty Exhibition, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2011 • Greenhouse, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL

2011 • Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee, Wave Hill Gallery, New York, NY

2011 • Fresh Work, Flash Forward Festival Exhibition, Boston, MA, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography

2011 • New Directions, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, & Seattle, WA

2011 • Myself, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

2010 • Cultural Corridor, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, curated by Susan Cross, Mass MoCA

2010 • All in the Family, Islip Museum, Long Island, NY

2008 • Surprisingly Natural, Bronx River Art Center, NY, NY

2007 • Complete Control, Contemporary Art Projects, London, UK

2007 • Emerge 8, Aljira, Newark, NJAnd One Pill Makes You Small, Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, NY, NY

2007 • Material Witness, General Electric world headquarters, Fairfield, CTEye to I, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2006 • Temporal Pause, Gallery W52, New York, NY

2006 • The Social Body, Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida

2006 • Meditations in an Emergency, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY

2005 • Then I Woke Up, and It Was Still There, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida

2004 • Ice Cream Social, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY

2004 • Better Homes and Gardens, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA

2004 • That Summertime Feeling, Wooster Projects, New York, NY

2004 • Supranatural, Mixed Greens Gallery,New York, NY

2002 • Field Trip, School House Gallery, Croton Falls, NY

2002 • The Ides of March, ABC NoRio, New York, NY

2001 • Heat, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY

2001 • Benefit exhibition, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI

2000 • Meat Market Art Fair, New York, NY

2000 • Foci: Points of Convergence, Bard College, Red Hook, NY

2000 • Benefit exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY

1999-2000 • Photographs by Painters, Photographers, Sculptors, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

1999 • The Warehouse, Exit Art, New York, NY

1997 • Body Parts, Kingsgate Gallery, London

1997 • Everything Cool, Platinum Gallery, New York, NY

Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC

Girl’s Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, OH

Fidelity Collection, Boston, MA

Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

National Gallery of Art Special Collections, Washington D.C.

MoMA Library Collection, New York, NY

Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany

Columbia University Library, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library, Los Angeles, CA

Tate Museum Library, London, England 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library, Richmond, VA

Amon Carter Museum Research Library, Fort Worth, TX

Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT*

Amherst College, Frost Library, Amherst, MA

Casalini Libri, Florence, Italy 

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Morton R. Godine Library, Boston, MA
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, MA 

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

Ursinus College, Myrin Library, Collegeville, PA

RIT, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY 

Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 

Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Chicago, IL 

Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Washington University, St Louis, MO

Bethel University Library, Arden Hills, MN

Museum of Fine Arts, Hirsch Library, Houston, TX 

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library, London, England

Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 

2025 • International Center of Photography, New York, NY Instructor

2025 • Penumbra, New York, NY, Instructor

2024 • International Center of Photography, New York, NY Instructor

2024 • Penumbra, New York, NY, Instructor

2024 • Los Angeles Center of Photography, Instructor

2023 • International Center of Photography, New York, NY Instructor

2023 • Los Angeles Center of Photography, Instructor

2022 • Los Angeles Center of Photography, Instructor

2014 • New Hampshire Institute of the Arts, MFA Mentor

2014 •Contemporary Collectors Circle, University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts, Board Member

2011 • Amherst College, Visiting Lecturer

2006 • Creative Capital & Aljira Emerge Residency Program, Newark, NJ

2005 • New School, summer program, Artist Mentor and Lecturer

Bare Handed, L’Artiere Edizioni, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (monograph)

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (exhibition catalogue)

“Edward Weston’s Leaves of Grass,” Harvard Design Magazine, Issue No. 48, Spring / Summer 2021

“Bare Handed,” Southern Cultures Journal, Documentary Moment, Vol 26, No. 1, UNC Press, Spring 2020 (photo and written essay)

“The Spirit and the Food Feeds Them,” Gravy, No.74, The Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, Winter 2019 (photo and written essay)

Fraction of a Second, exhibition catalog, Radius Books, 2015

Griffin, Brandan, KC Studio, “A Show of ‘Strange and Familiar Places,’” June 4, 2024

Hirschfeld, Max, “Bare Handed,” Blind Magazine, March 7, 2024

Wolf, Francis, “La Vie a-t-elle Vraiment Une Valeur?” Philosophie Magazine, n. 175, December 2023 / January 2024

Lee, Priscilla, “The Truth of Rural Life,” Noblesse, August 2023 (photo essay and interview)

Thomas, Cassandre, “Les abeilles qui murmuraient à l'oreille de l'Homme,” Fish Eye Magazine, April 5, 2023

Schneider, Anna, “Bare Handed,” Boooooooom, February 27, 2023

Yatskevich, Olga, “Holly Lynton, Bare Handed,” Collector Daily, November 22, 2022

Stone, Mee-Lai, “Lost in a Meditation: Rural American Life in Pictures,” The Guardian, August 23, 2022

Dunau, Bera, “Cummington to Unveil New Public Art Installation,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 22, 2022

Dugan, Jess, Strange Fire Collective, “Q & A Holly Lynton,” May 5, 2022

Lynton, Holly, Musée Magazine, “Triggered” June 8, 2021

McQuaid, Cate, “Four Current Shows Offer Energy and Enchantment,” The Boston Globe, 28 July, 2015.

McQuaid, Cate, “Art Review: Agrarian Labors with Biblical Passion at Miller Yezerski,” The Boston Globe, 17 June, 2014.

Oxford American, Fall 2013, Volume 82, p. 29 (photo).

Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2013, Volume 23, Number 1, p.50 -52 (photo).

Water ~ Stone Review, A Literary Annual, Volume 16, 2013-2014 (photo).

Scoffier, Victoria, “Les Dessous de l’Image,” 6 Mois, 18 July 2013.

Lazlo, Gyorgy, “Holly Lynton, Interview,” L1GHTB1TES, 17 June 2013.

O’Reilly, John, “Holly Lynton: Transforming Eco-Photography,” Image Source, 20 June 2013.

Carlisle, Felecia Chizuko, “Artsy Bees and a Sexy Platypus,” ARTslant Miami, August, 2011.

Blask, Dan, and Holly Lynton, “In the Hands of Holly Lynton,” Interview, Artsake, Massachusetts’ Cultural Council, July 2011.

Holland, Laura, “Artist Profile, Holly Lynton,” Preview Massachusetts Magazine, July 2011.

McQuaid, Cate, “A Focused Look at Some Fresh Viewpoints,” Photography Review, The Boston Globe, 7 June, 2011.

Gordon, Margery, “Holly Lynton, Galerie Schuster, Miami,” National Reviews section, ARTnews, February 2011.

Miller, Geralda, “Newest Exhibit at UNR’s Sheppard Gallery is How Artists See Themselves,” The Reno Gazette Journal, 16 January, 2010.

Scelfo, Julie, “Easing the Pain of Collecting,” The New York Times, Home & Garden, 28 February 2008. (photo)

Reed, John, “Solid Ground – John Reed on Holly Lynton,” NY Arts, May/June 2007.

Salem, Nancy, “Review: Finding the Soul Through Self-portraits,” The Albuquerque Tribune, 16 February 2007.

Garrido, France, “Review: New Jersey Artists-Identity,” NY Arts, January/February 2007.

Aletti, Vince, “Art Review: Solid Ground,” The New Yorker, October 23, 2006.

Turner, Elisa, “Critic’s Pick: The Social Body,” Miami Herald, 19 May 2006.

The New Yorker, April 14, 2003. (photo)

Johnson, Ken, “Art Guide Review,” The New York Times, C6, 21 April 2000.

Aletti, Vince, “Voice Choices – Short List,” The Village Voice, 25 April 2000, pp. 84-85, (photo).

Morgan, Robert, “Artist Photographs: Straight and Sequential,” NY Arts, international edition, volume 5, p. 13.

McNamara, Brittney, “Are Intentional Communities the Way Forward? Meet the Young People Opting Out of Society and Building Utopia For Themselves” Teen Vogue, June 25, 2025 (photo commission)

Overbye, Dennis, “Watching the Total Eclipse,” The New York Times, April 8, 2024 (photo commission)

Cooley, Patrick, “They Grow Your Berries and Peaches but Often Lack One Item: Insurance,” The New York Times, March 27, 2024 (photo commission)

Scheiber, Noam, “Trader Joe’s Workers File for Election to Create Company’s First Union,” The New York Times, June 9, 2022 (photo commission)

Peters, Torrey, “Parsing American Style,” The New York Times, September 12, 2021 (photo essay)

Lach, Eric, “A Cautionary Tale of Workplace Harrassment in the Cuomo Administration,” The New Yorker, April 10, 2021. (photo commission)

Chotiner, Isaac, “Marty Baron Considers His Time at the Washington Post,”

The New Yorker, February 6, 2021. (photo commission)