Pratt Institute

Education

M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; Painting and Installation
B.F.A., East Carolina University; Painting

Biography

Lisa Bateman has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. Trained formally as a Painter and Installation Artist, Bateman now works predominantly in the Public Art realm with projects that are site-specific in relation to architecture and audience. Bateman has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of several awards, including recent grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Manhattan Community Art Fund and Pollock Krasner, among others. Bateman has taught at Pratt Institute since 1986.

Lisa Bateman MFA Virginia Commonwealth University Painting and Installation BFA East Carolina University. Painting

AWARDS include 2006-08 Manhattan Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Community Council for Arbor Vitae 08, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, individual Artist grant for Public Installation “The Periscope Project” Leonard Street and Broadway, New York Foundation for the Arts, individual Artist grant, Pollock Krasner Foundation, individual Artist grant, Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, grant for Bedford-Stuyvesant Public Arts project, Vista Federal Grant and Pratt Area Community Council, grant for Public Arts Project, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, MTA Arts for Transit, Skira Artist Residency, Barcelona and Cadaques, Spain, Virginia Commission for the Arts “Public Arts Dialogue Southeast” travel grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Avocet Print and Residency Fellowship, Lexington, NY, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Artist Residency

EXPERIENCE 2004-07 Adjunct Associate Professor, Drawing/Installation and Painting, Fine Arts, Pratt Institute Painting and Drawing Coordinator, Skowhegan, OxBow and Yale/Norfolk Fellowship,Pratt Institute, 2002-03 Acting Assistant Chair, Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, 1995-99 Special Projects Manager, PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor, MFA Fine Arts, Studio Arts, Syracuse University, Vermont College for the Arts, MFA Studio Artist Faculty

LECTURES, PANELS The University of Fine Arts, MFA program, Trondheim, Norway, The Royal College of Art, Oslo,Norway Graduate Fine Arts Department, The Stavanger Museum of Art, Stavanger, Norway, The Fine Arts Museum, Haugesund, Norway, International Studio Artists Panel, PS1Museum, New York “Artists As Mentors” New York Coalition for the Arts, NY, Bennington College Fine Arts Deapartment, Womens Caucus for Art, New York., Syracuse Universtiy, MFA candidates, Syracuse, New York, Longwood College, Longwood, Virginia, Fine Arts Department, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Staunton, Virginia, Artists’ Residency Fellows, Newport News Museum of the Arts, Newport News, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,

RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2008“Arbor Vitae” Public project, Installation, Gansevoort St NYC, NY , “The Periscope Project” Public Project, Installation, Leonard & Broadway, New York City, Union University, Atrium Installation, New Jersey, Robert Costa, Curator.“Rencontres International Video Festival, Paris-Berlin Paris, France, “What She Said” 2001, “Vivisection” group video installation, Location One, New York, “The Container Project” Public project/Installation, New York City, NYC Parks and LMCC, Sandra Skurvida, curator