Eddie Lanieri is an artist and educator working primarily in photography. She received her M.F.A. in Studio Art from Florida State University and an undergraduate degree in Archaeology/Bioarchaeology from Arizona State University. Her passion for photography began with a Polaroid camera and a school field trip in eighth grade.
Lanieri’s work centers on grief and sorrow. She draws on photography’s capacity to isolate, archive, and reorganize time to explore how connections to memory are disrupted or severed and then reconstructed through longing as a means of coping with loss. Her practice combines traditional darkroom techniques with alternative photographic processes to create uniquely textured, one-of-a-kind photographs. Often, she physically intervenes in the photographic surface through scratching, transferring, or subjecting the prints to chemical instability. These acts blur the line between photograph and artifact, leaving visible traces of both the image and the process of its becoming.
Her work has been recognized by the 2024 Platforms Fund Research Grant and the Puffin Foundation Award. She is a Salzburg Global Seminar fellow and has exhibited with institutions including the Lucie Foundation, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, Lowe Museum of Art, Goldsmiths College, and the Kinsey Institute. Her work is held in both private and public collections and has received support from the Mellon Foundation and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. Her photographs have also been presented in academic and public forums throughout the American South, including SECAC.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
She’s a Knockout, Lowe Museum, Miami, FL
2022
Chasing Ghosts, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR
2021
REVELATIONS II: Recent Photography Acquisitions, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2020
Suffrage Now, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX
A Quiet Stand, Rose Center for the Arts, Longview, WA
2019
Time Zero and Beyond, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2018
Performing Feminism(s), Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
Analogue Portrait Project, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Push Pin Show, NOPA, New Orleans, LA
2016
Role Play, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Straight Shot, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
The 21 Century Body, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Shutterbug, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015
XX-Mark of the Feminine, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Intersections of Gender and Place, Eugenia Summer Gallery, Columbus, MS
Votive Objects and Relics, Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Back to the Front, Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Art Lab, Ginza Art and Concept Laboratory, Tokyo Japan
18 to Life, Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014
London Analogue Festival, Goldsmith University, London, England
(Un) Clothed, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
37th Anniversary of International Women Photographers Professional Women Photographers, New York, NY
New Southern Photography, The Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2013
Below The Belt, MASS Visual Arts, Gainesville, FL
2012
Returning the Gaze, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2011
New Directions ‘11: Moment of Being, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Sex and Gender Identity, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2010
Boys Will Be Boys, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
Dress as Girl, Homespace Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED AWARDS
2023
Platforms Research Grant (2023-2024)
2019
Rfotofolio Portfolio Prize
2014
[Honorable Mention] 37th Anniversary of International Women Photographers Professional Women Photographers, New York, NY [ Juror: Deborah Willis]
2013
Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship
HBCU Mellon Fellowship
Mellon Foundation Enhancement Grant for Student Research
2012
Louisiana State Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant
2011
PhotoLA/ReviewLA New Directions Scholarship
TITLE IX, Louisiana State Technology Grant
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2021
REVELATIONS II: Recent Photography Acquisitions, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2020
Sicilian Americans of Louisiana, Photography and Anthropology Panel, Royal Anthropology Society Annual Conference (Online)
Portraits, Suffrage Now Artist Talk, Elisabet Ney Museum, (Online)
2018
Downhome: Considering the Southern Landscape, SECAC, Birmingham, AL
Everyday New Orleans Project, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2015
Visiting Artist, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Artist Talk, Mississippi University of Women, Columbus, MS:
2014
Early Creole Photographers of New Orleans, Southern Studies Conference {AUMLAC], Auburn University, Montgomery, AL
Artist Talk, Tulane University, Newcomb Art Department, New Orleans LA
2013
Artist Talk, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg Austria
2010
Guest Lecturer, The Artists of Arnold Newman’s Photography, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA