Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and educator whose practice explores Black women’s and girls’ experiences, collective memory, archival histories, and the relationships between identity, care, and social conditions across the African diaspora. Working across analog photography, darkroom printing, cyanotype, sculpture, installation, and moving image, Brown creates work that considers how personal histories and collective experiences shape the ways we understand ourselves and one another.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Brown’s interest in photography began in childhood, influenced by her grandfather’s street photography and early experiences with film and darkroom processes at the National Children’s Museum. She holds an MFA in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work brings together image making, material experimentation, and community-engaged practices to create spaces for reflection, dialogue, and shared knowledge.

Brown received the Sidney Lake iLEAD Award and a France-Merrick Fellowship. She was also selected for the Harlee H. Little Jr. Artist Residency with Balck Art of Washington, DC. Her artistic and community-based work extends to photography education and darkroom programming, including work with young people in Ghana.