MALCOLM LIGHTNER is a photographer who works and resides in New York. Born in 1969 in Naples, Florida, he is a fourth generation native Floridian. Malcolm has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants and his work has been featured in a range of prominent exhibitions including Art + Commerce Emerging Photographers and the New York Photo Festival. Malcolm's photography is included in the permanent photography collections at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. His work has appeared in Stern, Topic, The Oxford American, Dazed & Confused, Vice, Wired, Slate, The View, The Atlantic, Dear Dave, Aint-Bad and Life, among other publications. PowerHouse Books recently published his first monograph, Mile O’ Mud: The Culture of Swamp Buggy Racing. Malcolm is a member of the photography faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since 2002.

EDUCATION

1998 Master of Fine Arts Degree: Photography, Arizona State University

1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree: Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 The Road, South x Southeast Gallery, Molena, Georgia, Curated by Richard McCabe

2017 This Location / Dislocation, Jeonju International Photo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea, Curated by Peter Garfield

2016 MILE O' MUD, solo exhibition, New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA), New Orleans, LA

2015 Dear Dave Week: APPROACHING 20 ISSUES IN PRINT, Michael Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2014 New York Photo Festival, The powerHouse Arena, NY, Curated by Elizabeth Avedon, contributor to L’Oeil de la Photographie; Simon Barnett, Director of Photography for CNN Digital; Jim Casper, editor and publisher of LensCulture; Neil Harris, photo editor at Fortune Magazine; Elizabeth Griffin, photo editor of Esquire Magazine; Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at The New Yorker; Elizabeth Krist, senior photo editor for National Geographic; Adriana Letorney, Co-founder & Creative Director of FotoVisura; Graham Letorney, Co-founder of FotoVisura; and Aline Smithson, Founder and Editor of Lenscratch

2014 The American South Exhibition, Aint-Bad Magazine, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

2014 9/50 Southeast Arts Presenters Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

2013 Photoville, Dear Dave Magazine, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Slow Exposures, tenth year preeminent juried photography exhibition of the rural South by curators Brett Abbott and Julian Cox, Historic R.F. Strickland Building, Concord, GA

2009 Anthology: Recent Works/Aquisitions, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

2006 Joint Venture: Selections from the Dr. Barry S. Ramer Collection and Other Photographs, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & Pence Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

2005 Redefined: Found Object Works, group exhibition, Red Gallery, Savannah, GA

2004 Chaos Theory, group exhibition, 3carpileup, Phoenix, AZ

2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, group exhibition, Pier 92, October 28-31, New York, NY

2004 The Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers, juried exhibition, The Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

2003 No Festival Required, film screening End-to-End, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2002 NYC Photography in Black and White, group exhibition, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Art & Observance, School of Visual Arts Commemorates 9/11, juried faculty exhibition, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY

2002 AIPAD, group exhibition, WM. Floyd Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Recent Works, solo exhibition, Young & Rubicam, New York, NY

2001 Exhibition #1, solo exhibition, Celsius Gallery, New York, NY

2001 AIPAD, group exhibition, WM. Floyd Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Photo LA, group exhibition, WM. Floyd Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

1999 Crossing Borders, The Arizona/Salzburg Photographers Exchange, group exhibition; Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria

1998 End-to-End, solo Exhibition, Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 Intimacy, juried exhibition, West Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

1997 The Northlight Gallery 25th Exhibition and Auction, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1996 MARS Invitational, MARS Artspace, Phoenix, AZ

1995 Beyond Silver IV: Past, Present, and Future, juried exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1994 Archetypes and Premonitions, solo exhibition, International Oasis Art Gallery, Savannah, GA

1994 Historical Techniques, juried exhibition, Silver House Gallery, Savannah, GA

1994 Savannah On The River, annual juried exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Savannah, GA

1993 Savannah On The River, annual juried exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Savannah, GA

1993 Beyond The Figure, group exhibition, International Oasis Art Gallery, Savannah, GA

1992 Symbiosis, solo exhibition, Bergen Hall Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

PERMANENT COLLECTION

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL

GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS

2018 Selected for inclusion in the American Photography 34 “Chosen” Category Jury Included: Roxanne Behr, New York Magazine; Siobhan Bohnacker, The New Yorker; Todd Heughens, FX Networks; Andrew Katz, TIME; Chelsea Matiash, The New York Times, formerly The Intercept; Krista Prestek, Apple, formerely GQ; and Matt Willey, The New York Times Magazine.

2017 Selected for inclusion in the American Photography 33 “Selected” Category Jury Included: Kate Bubacz, BuzzFeed News; Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine; Bailey Franklin, Variety; Amy Kellner, The New York Times Magazine; Christopher Martinez, Barneys New York; Michele Outland, Gather Journal; and Patrick Witty, National Geographic.

2016 Selected for inclusion in the American Photography 32 “Chosen” Category Jury Included: Anna Goldwater Alexander, WIRED; Sarah Filippi, Fast Company; Genevieve Fussell, The New Yorker; Kelli Grant, Yahoo News; Jennifer Miller, Condé Nast Traveler; Florence Nash, People; and Emily Shornick, Tory Burch.

2014 Selected for inclusion in the American Photography 30 “Chosen” Category Jury Included: David Carthas, Bloomberg Businessweek; Jeff Dryer, Wieden + Kennedy; Karen Frank, ESPN The Magazine; Wyatt Gallery, Fine Art Documentary Photographer; Cory Jacobs, Gallery at Hermès; Ayanna Quint, Modern Farmer; Jaspal Riyait, Martha Stewart Living; Natalie Matutschovsky, TIME.

2009 Nominee, Santa Fe Prize For Photography

2004 Selected for inclusion in Critical Mass, A juried competition, PhotoLucida, Portland, OR

2000 Documentary Screening: Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Pasa Un Angel, Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

2000 Golden Spire Award for Best Art Film: Pasa Un Angel, Golden Gate International Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA

2000 Featured Filmmaker, Undergroundfilm.com, New York, NY

1998 Telluride 25th Anniversary Film Festival Symposium Recipient, Telluride, CO

1997 Photography Enrichment Grant, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1996 Grant Recipient: Arizona/Austria Photographic Exchange Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1996 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1995 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1994 Outstanding Achievement in Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

1994 Bay Camera Special Merit in Photography, Art Center Gallery Juried Exhibition, Savannah, GA

1994 Marion Effing Fine Arts Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

SELECTED MEDIA

2015 SLATE Malcolm Lightner Photographs Swamp Buggy Races in Florida

2015 VICE Photos of Swamp Buggy Racing from Florida's Mile O' Mud

2015 LENSCRATCH Malcolm Lightner: MILE O' MUD

2015 AMERICAN PHOTO Go Inside the Muddy World of Florida Swamp Buggy Racing

2015 DAILY MAIL UK Wet n' Wild Photographer Spends Decade Documenting Weird Wonderful World of Swamp Buggy Racing

2015 A KIND VOICE ON SPORTS - BlogTalkRadio Live Interview Interview with Photographer, Malcolm Lightner discussing his book MILE O' MUD

2015 NAPLES DAILY NEWS SWFL Native on Quest to Document the Swamp Buggy Culture

2015 JUXTAPOZ Malcolm Lightner Explores Swamp Buggy Racing in Florida

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2018 American Photography 34

2017 American Photography 33 2016 View Magazine, August Issue

2016 American Photography 32

2015 Ain't -Bad Magazine, Issue No. 9, A-B

2014 American Photography 30

2013 Dear Dave Magazine, Issue 14

2011 Dear Dave Magazine, Issue 9

2010 5th Edition, Best of The South, Issue 69, Oxford American Magazine

2007 “Swamp Buggy Days”, August 2007, Guernica Magazine, New York, NY

2004 “Outside the Classroom”, March 2004, SVA NET, New York, NY

2003 “Swamp Buggy Days”, Fall 2003, Visual Arts Journal, New York, NY

2003 “Captured by the Web”, Spring 2003, Visual Arts Journal, New York, NY

2002 “Real World Education”, March 2002, Photo District News, New York, NY

2000 “Grave Undertaking”, 06/15/00 Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ

2000 Photography In New York International, May/June 2000

1999 "From the Alps To the Desert" Austria Kultur, Vol. 9 No.1, Jan/Feb 1999, Salzburg, Austria

1999 "Photography Exhibit reflects artist's everyday life, emotional states" 10/23/98, ASU Insight, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1998 "Night and Day" 10/22/98 Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, AZ

1998 "Colorado film festival features photography student's works" 09/01/98, State Press, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 "U.S.-Austria exchange influences photography students" 03/14/97, ASU Insight, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

RESIDENCY

2009 Everglades Fellowship, Everglades National Park, Homestead, FL

GUEST LECTURER

2016 International Center for Photography, New York, NY

2016 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2012 Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL

TEACHING POSITIONS

2001 - present Faculty, BFA Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2010-12 MPS Digital Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2003-08 Instructor/Guest Lecturer, Media Bistro, New York, NY

1999-00 Adjunct Faculty, Introduction to Motion Picture Production: Television and Motion Picture Studies, Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ