Calista Lyon is an Australian artist and teacher currently based between Fayetteville, Arkansas and Tallangatta Valley, Australia.
Lyon’s work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally, including, Inverse Performance Art Festival, The Momentary, Bentonville, AR (The Uncertain Behavior of Clouds, 2025); Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (State of the Sky, with Luke Stettner, 2023-26); Light Work, Syracuse, NY (The Archive as Liberation, 2025); Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA (The Archive as Liberation, 2025); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (Remembering Future, 2023); The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (Breaking Water: Liquidity as Method, with Carmen Winant, 2022); and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home, 2023). Her public project, Remembering Future was featured in the publication The Archive as Liberation, edited by Aaron Turner and published by Light Work, Syracuse, NY (2025).
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 Oak Spring Garden Foundation, The University of Arkansas, University of Denver, Epicenter (UT), 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 Connor Endowed Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Photography & Expanded Media at the University of Arkansas.