Curriculum Vitae

“Formally, Lyssiotis’ work explored both montage and photo-narrative sequences. His enduring subject has been the tactics of survival by those oppressed or at the margins of capitalism…. In the collisions and excesses of an all-pervasive visual culture, Lyssiotis mobilizes the icons of mass culture against their own commodity language.”

Camera Austria (Scott McQuire)

Image source: Neos Kosmos

Artist books

  • 1 Way Home
  • 1316 – (in 3 volumes) (with Angela Cavaieri)
  • 7 Disrupted Interviews with History
  • A Boy, a Journey &
  • A Gardener at Midnight (with Brian Castro)
  • A Modern Forest (with Anne-Maree Hunter)
  • A Particle of Light, A Point of Darkness
    Absence (with Antigone Kefala)
  • Ah, Those Thieving Birds!
  • Birds from Byzantium (with Lefteris Olympios)
    Bridge (with George Matoulas)
  • CD’s and Other Things (with Gyorgy Scrinis)
    Clutch (with Urszula Dawkins)
  • Dancing Over Dark Water (with Gwen Harrison  Sue Anderson)
  • Dancing Over Dark Waters – the Chapbook (with Gwen Harrison & Sue Anderson)
  • Desire & The Brush
    Dog Eat Dog (with Theo Strasser)
  • Duende (with Nicholas Pounder)
  • Eidetics (with Leon van Schaik)
  • Eyewitness (with Theo Strasser)
  • Eyewitness: Corporate Plan 2008-2009 (with Theo Strasser)
  • Feather & Prey
    Fire (with Theo Strasser)
  • First There Is a Mountain
  • … From the Secret Life of Statues
  • Getting Away with It (with Caren Florence)
  • Guarding Bones (with Margaret Dietrich)
  • His Wayward Hand (with George Matoulas)
  • Homeland (with Noga Freiberg)
  • If His Voice be True (with Anne Twigg)
  • In These Great Times
  • Industrial Woman (with Jas Duke & Vivienne Mehes)
  • Inside Outside
  • Islands
  • Journey
  • Journey of a Wise Electron and Other
  • Stories
  • Leaf
  • Letter to Lorca: A View from my Darkroom
  • Living Cities (with Leon van Schaik)
  • Lonesome Trees
  • Looking for Estrelitta (with Brian Castro)
  • Men of Flowers (with Humphrey McQueen)
  • Mnemopolis (with Alex Selenitsch)
  • More, more, more
    Mortal Divide (with George Alexander)
  • My Grandmother, the Elder, Parthenios and
  • Me (with Frixos Ioannides)
  • One Velvet Morning (with Anne-Maree Hunter)
  • Never Alone. Each & Every Night
  • Paper Memories (Akky van Ogtrop)
  • Paris (with Leon van Shaik)
  • Remembrance (with Robert Colvin & Theo Strasser)
  • Seven Rooms (with Monica Oppen)
  • Stolen Waters (with Marian Crawford)
  • The Bird, The Bell Tower
  • The Dead Travel Fast (with George Alexander)
  • The Elder Paints an Icon (with Petr Herel)
    The Harbour Breathes (with Anna Couani)
  • The Harmed Circle
  • The Ifs of Language
  • The Indecisive Moment (with George Alexander)
  • The Look of Love (with Scott McQuire)
  • The Products of Wealth
  • The River (with Monica Oppen)
  • The Shadows We 
  • Leave Behind
  • The Silent Scream (with Monica Oppen)
  • The Use of Ashes (with Theo Strasser)
  • This is War
  • Three Cheers for Civilization
  • Using Shadows (with Theo Strasser & Robert Colvin)
  • Views from the Mountain (with Ilse van Garderen)
  • Visbytes
  • We Found Ourselves on the Street Shouting (with Monica Oppen & Humphrey McQueen)
  • What She Wants (with Urszula Dawkins)
  • What the Moon Let Me See
  • Why: A Play for 2 Voices

Exhibitions in private galleries and art spaces

  • 200 Gertrude Street
  • Abecedarian Gallery (USA)
  • Artspace
  • Australian Centre for
  • Photography
    Australian Galleries, Melbourne & Sydney
  • Banyule Artspace
  • Cabinet du Livre D’Artiste (France)
  • Canberra School of Art Gallery
  • Counihan Gallery
  • Damien Minton Gallery
    Darren Knight
  • FAD Gallery
  • Fremantle Arts Centre
  • Galerie Rivolta (Switzerland)
  • Gallery East
  • Gallery Red
  • Gallery Smith
  • George Adams Gallery
  • Ginza Art Club (Japan)
  • Grahame Galleries & Editions
  • Heidi – Museum of Modern Art
  • Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • Ivan Dougherty Gallery
  • Johan Deumens Editions (The Netherlands)
  • Julie Green Gallery
  • Lanitis Foundation (Cyprus)
  • Mackay Regional Gallery
  • Mass Gallery
  • Monash Gallery of Art
  • Monash Library
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • Pinacotheca
  • Place Gallery
  • Roar Two
  • Stills Gallery
  • Temple Gallery
  • The Shop Gallery
  • Visible Gallery
  • Watson Place Gallery
  • Whitehorse Artspace

University exhibitions and collections

  • California State University, Hayward (USA)
  • Concordia University (Canada)
  • Deakin University
  • Drill Hall Gallery
  • Flinders University
  • George Paton Gallery
  • Harvard University (USA)
  • Macquarie University
  • Monash University
  • Princeton University (USA)
  • Rhode Island School of Design (USA)
  • RMIT’s Storey Hall Gallery
  • Southern Cross University
  • Stanford University (USA)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Tasmania, Centre for the Arts Gallery
  • UTS Gallery
  • Wesleyan University (USA)