EDUCATION
1983-1985 California Institute of the Arts, MFA, studied with Jo Ann Callis & John Divola, Valencia, CA
1980-1982 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA, studied with Linda Connor & Larry Sultan, San Francisco, CA
1978-1980 Visual Studies Workshop, studied with Nathan Lyons, Rochester, NY
1977-1978 Le Contrejour, studied with Claude Nori, Paris, France
1976-1977 Aegean Center For The Fine Art, Paros, Greece
1975-1976 New York University, studied with Marcia Resnick, NYC
1971-1975 Cranbrook – Kingswood School, Bloomfield Hills, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Rotan Switch, Coston Arts Center, Osceola, AR
2024 Rotan Switch, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Pacific Palisades, CA
2023 Rotan Switch, Leica Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2022 Rotan Switch, Slow Exposures, GA
2021 Rotan Switch, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Southern Comfort, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016 My Mother’s Passing, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Rotan Switch, The Cotton Museum at The Memphis Cotton Exchange, TN
2013 Rotan Switch, The Cotton Museum at The Memphis Cotton Exchange, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Alta Vista Arts, MIA Photo Fair, Milan, Italy
2025 Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50 exhibit, Atlanta Photography Group, GA
2024 Alta Vista Arts, Galerie Couteron, Paris, France
2024 Being in Place, The Barn Show at Split Oaks Farm, Slow Exposures
2024 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Slow Exposures, jurors: Anna Walker Skillman and Brian Taylor
2024 Selects 2024 Exhibition, Atlanta Photography Group, juror: Aline Smithson
2023 2023 International Juried Exhibition, juror: Shana Lopes
2023 Alta Vista Arts, Galerie Couteron, Paris, France
2023 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Slow Exposures, jurors: Aline Smithson and Alexa Dilworth
2023 Alta Vista Arts, MIA Photo Fair, Milan, Italy
2023 Members Juried Show, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror: Hamidah Glasgow
2022 Conversations with the Archive, The Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror: Aline Smithson
2022 Small Matters, Medium Photo, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA, juror: Bayley Mizelle
2021 Contemporary Portrait, The Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror: Michael Foley
2021 Her Story: Through the Feminine Lens, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
curated by Marisa Cachiolo
2021 Creative Portraiture, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA, juror: Aline Smithson
2021 7th Annual Members’ Exhibition, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA, juror: Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks
2021 27th Juried Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, juror: Arnika Dawkins
2021 2021 Annual Members’ Show, The Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO, juror: Aline Smithson
2021 2021 Members Juried Exhibition, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror: Susan Burnstein
2021 Slow Exposures, Zebulon, GA, jurors: Alan Rothschild and Paula Tognarelli, first place
2020 IV: Members Exhibition, Filter Photo, juror: Jonathan Blaustein
2020 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibit: Exploring Humanity, LACP, CA, juror: Marissa Caichiolo
2020 The 2020 International Juried Exhibition, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror: Aline Smithson
2020 Portrait, The Southeast Center of Photography, Greenville, SC, juror: Brandon Thibodeaux
2020 26th Annual Members Juried Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA,
juror: Alexa Dilworth
2020 5th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition, LACP, CA, juror: Paul Kopeikin
2020 Here Comes the Sun, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Mother, South x Southeast Photo Gallery
2019 All Women are Dangerous II, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Women by Women, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC,juror: Kat Kiernan
2019 Slow Exposures, Le Grange, GA, jurors: Alyssa Coppelman & Gordon Stettinius
2019 LACP Members Exhibition, DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,juror: Douglas McCulloh
2019 2019 Photo Competition Exhibit, Stonehenge Gallery, GA
2019 Building Bridges Art Exchange, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Contemporary Portraiture, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juror: Ann Jastrab
2019 Self-Portrait, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, juror: Aline Smithson
2018 The Creative Portrait, Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA, juror: David Fahey
2018 Photo LA, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2018 Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, jurors: Kris Graves, Hamidah Glasgow
2018 Summer Show, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Slow Exposures, Le Grange, GA, jurors: Aline Smithson, Alexa Dilworth
2018 Finalist Exhibition and Artist Talk, FOCUS photo l.a. Gallery, Silverlake, CA
2018 Classic Photographs Los Angeles, Wallspace Creative, CA
2017 Granddaddy and Bruce's Wedding Reception, fotofever, Capital Gallery, Paris
2017 Creative Portraiture, Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA, juror: Ann Jastrab
2017 California Rising, Fabrik Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Slow Exposures: Unplugged Concord, Georgia, Le Grange, GA
2017 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, NYC, juror: Aline Smithson, 2nd Place
2017 Southern Landscapes, Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA, juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2017 Recollections, The New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA, juror: Russell Lord
2017 Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA, juror: Crista Dix
2017 Los Angeles Center of Photography, Photo LA, CA
2017 All Women are Dangerous, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
2017 The Human Condition, online exhibition, The Photo Review
2016 Identity: The List Portraits, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Slow Exposures 2016, Cochran Gallery, La Grange, GA
2016 Fabrik Projects, Photo Independent, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Truth is Stranger than Fiction, Month of Photography Los Angeles, Glassell Commons, CA
HONORS & AWARDS
2024 Slow Exposures, Honorable Mention, jurors: Anna Walker Skillman and Brian Taylor
2024 Lucie Photo Book Prize, Traditional Category Finalist, First Book, Rotan Switch
2024 Top 50 Finalist, Photolucida, Critical Mass
2023 AAP Magazine, Winner of the Competition Solo Exhibition, juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
2021 Top 200 Finalist, Photolucida, Critical Mass
2021 Slow Exposures, Zebulon, GA, jurors: Alan Rothschild and Paula Tognarelli, first place
2017 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, juror: Aline Smithson, 2nd place
2016 Top 200 Finalist, Photolucida, Critical Mass
2015 Top 200 Finalist, Photolucida, Critical Mass
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2025 Frames Magazine, Love of Place, Review of Rotan Switch
2024 Collector Daily, Lisa McCord, Rotan Switch
2024 PhotoBook Journal, Lisa McCord – Rotan Switch
2024 L’Œil de la Photographie, Kehrer Verlag: Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch
2024 The Guardian, ‘It had a complex history’: Secrets of my grandparents’ cotton farm in pictures
2024 Arkansas Democrat Gazette, L.A. Photographer Takes Tender Look at Arkansas Farm Town
2024 The Palisadian Post, Bruce Lurie Gallery to Host Lisa McCord Exhibition, Book Signing
2024 Lenscratch, Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch
2024 The Osceola Times, Life on a Rotan Cotton Farm
2024 Photo London, Rotan Switch, Kehrer Verlag Publishing House, book signing
2024 Kehrer Verlag Publisher, Rotan Switch, monograph
2023 AAP Magazine, Portrait, April issue #31
2021 CODE ORANGE, Artillery Magazine, Laura London
2021 Rotan Switch, Street Photography Magazine
2021 Exhibition Review: Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch, Afterimage, Judith B. Herman
2021 Work of Palisadian Photographer on Display in Solo Exhibition, Palisadian Post, Sarah Shmerling
2020 LACP Featured Member, Los Angeles Center of Photography
2018 Meet Lisa McCord of Lisa McCord Photography, VoyageLA
2017 American Connection, Black and White Magazine (UK edition), Susan Burnstine
2017 Lisa McCord - Rotan Switch, Ain’t-Bad, Curator’s Choice, Parker Woods
2017 Memories from an Arkansas Cotton Farm in the 1980s, Feature Shoot
2016 Artist Feature, Annenberg Space for Photography
2016 McCord’s Photos Capture the Eye, Spotlight, Palisades News, Laurie Rosenthal
2016 Palisadian Artist’s Photo Exhibit Opens Saturday, Palisades News, Jacqueline Primo
2016 Nancy Sherwood: My Mother’s Passing, LENSCRATCH, Aline Smithson
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Represented by Leica Gallery, Los Angeles