Lily Brooks

Brooks_Lily_01_Levee, Light from Dow Chemical and Western International Gas, 2019 - From the series _The Spillway_.jpg

Brooks_Lily_02_Before Opening, Feburuay 2019 - From the series _The Spillway_.jpg

Brooks_Lily_05_After Flood (Fish), 2019 - From the series _The Spillway_.jpg

Brooks_Lily_04_River, Rising, January 2020.jpg

Lily Brooks, Levee, Light from Dow Chemical and Western International Gas, Archival pigment print, 40 x 32 inches, 2019.
Lily Brooks, Before Opening, Archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, February 2019.
Lily Brooks, Torm Kansas, Archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, 2020.
Lily Brooks, Runoff, Archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, January 2020.
Lily Brooks, After Flood (fish), Archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, 2019.

Lily Brooks is an artist and educator based in Baton Rouge. Through long-term projects such as We Have to Count the Clouds and The Spillway, her research-based practice often examines the ways power and vulnerability define our experience of the climate crisis and shape the landscape we inhabit.

Brooks holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and featured in publications such as NPR’s Central Standard, Oxford American, Cabinet Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. Brooks is the 2019 recipient of an Archive Documentation and Preservation Grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation for her ongoing project, The Spillway. Her editorial clients include NPR’s Weekend Edition and the Financial Times. Her work is included in “A Yellow Rose Project”, a traveling exhibition in which 100+ womxn artists made work in response to the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. A selection of portraits and oral history recordings from Brooks’ collaborative project, Toward a Larger Freedom: Then Years of Citizen Power Organizing with Together Baton Rouge, will be exhibited at the Old State Capitol Museum in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute's traveling exhibition, “Voices & Votes” in October 2022. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Southeastern Louisiana University.