Calista Lyon is an Australian artist and teacher currently based between Fayetteville, Arkansas and Tallangatta Valley, Australia. Through an expanded photographic practice, she develops installations, lecture-performances, and experimental education programs that use artistic inquiry as a site for learning, critical resistance, collaboration, and community engagement.
Lyon’s work has been exhibited at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (State of the Sky, with Luke Stettner, 2023–26); Light Work, Syracuse (The Archive as Liberation, 2025); The Carnegie, Covington (Notations on Ritual, 2025); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (Breaking Water, with Carmen Winant, 2022); and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, among others.
Her practice has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the National Association for the Visual Arts (AU), the Regional Arts Fund (AU), the Ohio Arts Council, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. She has completed residencies and fellowships at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The University of Arkansas, University of Denver, Epicenter, University of Virginia, Ohio State University, and the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
Lyon previously held teaching positions at the University of Denver, Kenyon College, and the University of Virginia. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Photography & Expanded Media at the University of Arkansas.