Joan Lyons (born 1937) is an American artist. Lyons was born in New York, New York.[1] In 1971, Lyons founded the VSW Press at the Rochester-based Visual Studies Workshop.[2] In 2007 the Rochester Contemporary Art Center held a retrospective of her work. Another retrospective was held in 2023 at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.[3]
Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[4] the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago,[5] the Museum of Modern Art,[6] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,[7] and the National Gallery of Canada,[1] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts[8]