Lisa Walker is a photo-based artist born in the small town of Kitimat in Northern BC, Canada. She is currently based out of Vancouver, where she received her BFA with a major in photography from Emily Carr University in 2008.
Lisa's art tends to revolve out of the need to journal. She uses photography as a way to work through thoughts and reflect on situations.
Lisa is half Haisla First Nations and half British. Much of her work comes out of exploring this aspect of herself; duality in identity and feelings of being an outsider. Her artwork often involves images of her family and herself, images of home, or places that feel like home. Her recent work also explores scenes with traces of humanity, and her relationship with photography.
Lisa works in digital and analog photography. Her work has been shown in various galleries, websites and publications across Canada.
Links:
Associate member of Gallery Gachet.
Photoblog
Online Journal
Riley Park Stories: a community based digital storytelling project.
Vancouver Stories 125: a city-wide digital storytelling project.
Selected Exhibitions + Publications:
2007
Fractured, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008
University of Alberta, Sociology Department Website Publication, Edmonton, AB
Phraim Online Magazine, Kamloops, BC
Redwire Magazine Publication, Vancouver BC
We Are Collective, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver BC
Street Corner Benefit Auction, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver BC
Originate, Aboriginal Student Art Show, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver BC
Developing Tank, Plank Gallery, Vancouver BC
Hot One Inch Action, Button Show, Vancouver BC
Justice Rocks, Pivot Legal Society Festival, Vancouver BC.
Emily Carr Undergraduate Exhibit, Vancouver BC
2009
Mad Pride Show, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver BC
Front Magazine, Vancouver BC
Sight-Seeing: A Week in France, Solo Show, Re-entry Espresso (Sept-Oct 09), and Wicked Cafe (Nov. 09), Vancouver BC
581, Goonies, Vancouver BC
Migration Patterns, Gallery Gachet Solo Show, Dec 09- Jan 10, Vancouver BC
2010
A Collective Response, Gallery Gachet, Feb. 2010, Vancouver BC
SUMMIT, Photography Benefit Auction for SAINTS, East Van Studios, Feb. 2010
Space Invaders, Red Gate, April 2010, Vancouver BC
2011
Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out Inanna Publications & Education Inc, Toronto, Canada
taking a vacation, Solo show, August-November 2011, The Beehive, Vancouver BC
