EDUCATION
Columbus College of Art & Design, BFA, LTU - Chatsworth, Certification of Interior Design
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pitfalls In Potholes - Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
Refuge, Land For Sale - Visit Lake City, SC, Lake City, SC
Convergence -Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center, Savannah, GA
LandfillArt - LandfillArt, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING (Feb. 1, 2025) Ology Gallery,Surroundings, Thunderbolt, GA
2023 IAB Gallery at Georgia Southern University & The Averitt Center for the Arts, Avant Gardener, Statesboro, GA
2022-23 Coastal Discovery Museum, Avant Gardener, Hilton Head, SC
2022 Sulfur Studios, Avant Gardener, Savannah, GA
2020 The Florence County Museum, Cemento Armato, Florence, SC
2020 The Studios of Key West, Deer Humans, Key West, FL
2018-19 FA Gallery, GA Southern University, Avanguardia, Savannah, GA
2018 Brassworks w/Imlay Gallery, Interurban, Montclair, NJ
2017-18 Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center, Avanguardia, Savannah, GA
2015 Savannah City Hall Rotunda Gallery, City Transversed, Savannah, GA
2015 JEA Gallery, Out Of Town - Looking In, Savannah, GA
2002-03 Pop-Up at 3908 Sunset Blvd. Right To Vote, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Gainesville Fine Arts Association, Heat- 4th Biennial National Juried Art Exhibition, Gainesville, FL
2024 Arts Southeast, Good Vibrations, Savannah, GA
2023-24 Location Gallery, Savannopoly, Savannah, GA
2023 Sulfur Studios, Lexicon, Savannah, GA
2022-23 Jepson Center For The Arts, Convergence, Savannah, GA
2022 Sulfur Studios, Our Golden Coast, Savannah, GA
2022 Rockefeller Center Flag Project, New York, NY
2021 Sulfur Studios, IMPACT, Savannah, GA
2021 Location Gallery, Gate & Garden, Savannah, GA
2021 Sulfur Studios, Summer In The City, Savannah, GA
2021 Location Gallery, Savannopoly, Savannah, GA
2021 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Car Culture, Santa Ana, CA
2020 Sulfur Studios, Paper Trail, A Collage Collaboration Exhibition, Savannah, GA - Curator -Axelle Kieffer
2019-20 Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center, Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America, Savannah, GA
2020 Sulfur Studios, Chroma, Savannah, GA
2019-20 Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Freedom Now! Quest for a New Consciousness: Finding Our Way, Savannah, GA
2019 Roots Up Gallery, New Works Art Show, Savannah, GA
2019 Kai Lin Art, The New South 4, Atlanta, GA
2019 Grand Bohemian Gallery, Savannah’s Architectural Fabric, Savannah, GA
2019 Artfields, Lake City, SC
2019 Location Gallery, Lush: A Celebration in Pink, Savannah, GA
2019 Sulfur Studios, On::View Year::One, Savannah, GA
2018 Affordable Art Fair w/ Imlay Gallery, New York, NY (September)
2018 Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Making Waves: A Collective Perspective on the Pollution of Our Waterways, Savannah, GA
2018 Location Gallery, Fast Food, Savannah, GA
2018 ICFF w/Imlay Gallery, Javits Center, New York, NY
2018 Art on Paper Fair w/ Imlay Gallery, Pier 36, New York, NY
2017 Location Gallery, Aqua Vista, Savannah, GA
2016 Location Gallery, Reach: Trees, Savannah, GA
2016 Oglethorpe Gallery, Span The Gap, Savannah, GA
2016 Space Gallery, Savannah Point Of View, Savannah, GA
2014 LandfillArt - An Reclamation Project, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2014 Indigo Sky Gallery, Familiar Terrain w/Lind Hollingsworth, Savannah, GA
2010 Sentient Bean, Collage: Sum Of The Parts, Savannah, GA
2010 The Gallery of Paper Mill Village, Atlanta Mixed Media/Collage Exhibit Marietta, GA
2009 New Moon of Savannah, redeSIGN, Savannah, GA
2002 The Armory Center for the Arts, MA Art Space Annual Show, Pasadena, CA
EXHIBITION CURATOR - JUROR - JUDGE
2021 Judge - Coastal Discovery Museum, The Art Market at Historic Honey Horn, Hilton Head Island, SC
2020 Juror - Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Small Works 2020, Florence, SC
2020 Juror - Sulfur Studios, RE::CLAIMED, Savannah, GA
2018 Curator - Sulfur Studios, Lyric, Savannah GA
2016 Curator - Oglethorpe Gallery, Span The Gap, Savannah, GA
ECOLOGICAL GARDEN PROJECTS
Owner and Design Director - Plan It Green Design, LLC Est. 2008
MURALIST - BILL VIOLA FILM INSTALLATIONS
2004 Unseen Foe, 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens, Greece
2003 The Passions, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Going Forth By Day, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2001 Five Angels For The Millennium, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
PRESS
~Field of Vision, Georgia Southern University Department of History Newsletter - May 2023
~Averitt Center launches nature-based art exhibit, Grice Connect - March 8, 2023
~Zach Dennis, ‘Avant Gardener’ exhibition on display at Oglethorpe Mall Library, Do Savannah - Dec. 22, 2022
~Wendy J. Ledbetter, Avant Gardener, A Creative Exploration of Imperiled Species, The Longleaf Leader - Volume XV - Issue 4, Winter 2023
~Carolyn Males, Lisa D. Watson: Avant Gardener, LocalLife Magazine - VOL. 6, Issue 11, Nov. 2022
~Jessica Lynn Curtis, Seeds of Inspiration, Savannah Magazine - VOL. 33, NO. 7, Sept/Oct 2022
~Brienne Walsh, In The Smoking Ruins Of Our Built Environment, Flowers Still Bloom, Forbes - Online - Sept. 2, 2022
~Beth Logan, Lisa Watson: On A Mission, Connect Savannah - Print & online - Aug. 31, 2022
~Josephine Johnson, With ‘Avant Gardener,’ Savannah Artist Lisa Watson Is Saving The Environment With Art, Do Savannah - Print & online - Aug. 30, 2022
~Jessica Leigh Lebos, Finding Glory In A Roadside Ditch With Lisa D. Watson, Savannah Sideways - Online - Aug. 24, 2022
~Rockefeller Center, The Flag Project - 2022 Catalog
~Josephine Johnson, ‘Savannah artists bloom in new Location Gallery show benefiting the Friends of the Coastal Gardens’, Do Savannah - Aug. 12, 2021
~Rob Hessler, 'Gallery' Hop Atomica opens with exhibitions of Savannah artists Lisa D. Watson, Kip Bradley”, Do Savannah - Online - Mar. 15, 2021
~Rob Hessler, Whale Week brings education, awareness to Coastal Georgia, Do Savannah - Print & Online: Nov. 25, 2020
~Florida Keys Wildlife Society, Voices of Nature -Spring/Summer 2020 - Online: https://floridakeyswildlifesociety.org http://online.fliphtml5.com/fhxck/bbpy/
~Three new exhibitions open at Studios of Key West - Online: Key West Florida Weekly, March 12, 2020 - https://keywest.floridaweekly.com/articles/three-new-exhibitions-open-at-studios-of-key-west/
~Rob Hessler, Art off the Air: What is Eco Art? - Online: Do Savannah - Jan. 24, 2020 -https://www.dosavannah.com/news/20200124/art-off-air-what-is-eco-art
~Rachael Flora, Seeking Freedom, Jubilee Day includes exhibition - Print & Online: Connect Savannah - Dec. 18, 2019
~Jim Reed, 20 Questions: Artist Lisa D. Watson - Online: Do Savannah - Posted May 29, 2019
~AIMEE LACALLE, Discover the destination behind the inspiration - Travel with our designers as we spotlight the beauty of Savannah (Lisa D. Watson) - www.aimeelacalle.com - 2019
~Kelly Carper, Art City Focus: Savannah, Georgia - American Art Collector Magazine - Issue 163 - 2019
~Kristopher Monroe, SavArtScene: Savannah’s Lisa Watson ‘saving the planet one garden at a time’ - Print & Online: Savannah Now - Aug. 26, 2018
~Bevin Valentine Jalbert, What Goes Unseen: Art & Activism in the Work of Lisa D. Watson - Paprika Southern Magazine - Summer 2018, Vol. III, Issue 4
~Lisa D. Watson 6 Apr — 10 Jun 2018 at the Imlay Gallery in Montclair, United States” Online: Wall Street International Magazine - April 20, 2018
~The Atlanta Arts & Culture Weekly Review - Online: Voyage ATL -April 6, 2018
~Stephen Prudhomme, Making An Artistic and Environmental Statement - Print & Online: Spirit Newspapers - Jan. 18, 2018
~Rachael Flora, Lisa D. Watson bridges the environment - Print (COVER) & Online: Connect Savannah - Nov. 15, 2017
~Kristopher Monroe, SavArtScene: Savannah artist’s personal vision writ large on walls of Jepson - Print & Online: Savannah Now - Nov. 12, 2017
~Kristopher Monroe, Activist turns focus back to art - Print & Online: SavannahNow - Aug. 5, 2017
~Amanda Foster, Local Woman Looking to Rename Talmadge Bridge - WJCL - ABC - July 20, 2016
~Lisa Hueneke, Span the Gap Presents Artist Perspective on Talmadge Bridge - Online: Savannah Art Informer - June 9, 2016
~Kayla Goggin, Lisa D. Watson: Spanning The Gap - Print & Online: Connect Savannah - June 8, 2016
~Kristopher Monroe, Span the Gap Exhibit Commemorates Bridge Anniversary While Advocating Name Change - Print & Online: Do Savannah - June 7, 2016
~Babbie Guscio, Spanning the Past, the Present and Art - Print & Online: The Bluffton Packet - May 25, 2016
~Aberjhani, The Struggle Continues to Correct Racial Transgressions of America's Past - Online: The Examiner - May 11, 2016
~Jessica Leigh Lebos, Name Shaming The Talmadge Bridge - Print & Online: Connect Savannah - April 20, 2016
~Jessica Leigh Lebos, The Unexpected Nature of Bridges - Print & Online: Connect Savannah - Aug. 26, 2015
~Allison Hersh, Life at Mermaid Manor - Savannah Magazine -July/Aug. 2011
~Donna Thomas, Merit Award Winners - Mixed Media/Collage Exhibit - Blogspot: The Gallery of Paper Mill Village - March 7, 2010
~Kira Perov, Going Forth By Day - Bill Viola - Publication - 2002
~Kimberly Sullivan, Good Habit’s Hard To Break - Print: Eastern Hills Journal - 1995
AWARDS
Recipient of the Solo Exhibition Award by the Florence Regional Arts Alliance 2020
Honorable Mention: Night Ship - Savannah Point Of View 2016
Merit Award: Savannah Overview - The Atlanta Mixed Media/Collage Exhibit 2010
Merit Award: Stage -The Atlanta Mixed Media/Collage Exhibit 2010
RESIDENCIES
CURRENT The Ology Clay Community Residency, Thunderbolt, GA
March 27 - May 22, 2023 - Dysbiosis, Ayatana’s Biophilium Science School For Artists
Feb. 16 - Mar. 14, 2022 - The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
Aug. 2018 - On::View Residency, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSIONS & INTERVIEWS
2023 Native Plant Symposium, presented by The State Botanical Garden of Georgia & The Garden Club of Georgia, Feb. 22
2020 Whale Week Featured Artist Virtual Interview with Rachael Flora, Dec. 1
2020 Art On The Air, WRUU.org, Jan. 22
2018 Art On The Air, WRUU.org, Sept. 5
2018 Panelist - Fourth Annual Youth Ocean Conservation Summit, Savannah, GA
2018 Art On The Air, WRUU.org, Jan. 3
2016 Savannah's Storied Landscape. Hosted by Emergent Savannah
2015 Bridges: Understanding Our Local Extensions - Savannah City Hall
ARTIST & ENVIRONMENTAL WRITINGS
2022 Impact Arts & Culture - Contributing writer - “Where In The Flying F### Did My Balloon Go?”
2018-19 Paprika Southern Magazine Contributing writer - Four Part Series for Seasonal Southeastern Gardening Guide
2018 Paprika Southern Magazine Summer issue. Contributing writer - Road Trip Savvy
2016 Savannah Art Informer - Artists on Art Series: "Reach: Trees" at Location Gallery Celebrates and Aids Local Trees, "Dear Savannah, Stop Asking Artists For Free Art", "Lisa D. Watson on the magic and business of Folk Art", "More Tales From Tall Tales"
2007-08 Bluffton City Sun Contributing “Green” Writer
1999-00 The Goldman Environmental Prize (2 Documentaries)