Ginny Lloyd

Ginny Lloyd (born 1945, Maryland, US) is an American artist, noted for her work with mail art, photocopy art, performance art and photography. She organized the Copy Art Exhibition in San Francisco in 1980 with programming devoted to promoting xerography. Her work was included in the exhibition, From Bonnard to Baselitz: A Decade of Acquisitions by the Prints Collection 1978-1988 and listed annually since 1992 in Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Lloyd's artworks are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, at Artistamp Museum of Artpool in Budapest, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Ginny began exhibiting her photography during the 70’s when she obtained a Nikon camera and learned darkroom printing. She used models in surreal compositions and environments, gaining recognition with awards and magazine coverage. Many were in a large format, hand tinted series. She became interested in computer imagery using technology themes in her art production in the 1970s, having learned programming languages while earning a graduate degree at Syracuse University. In late 79 and early 80s she became an expert in the use of copy machines to make art (Let’s Make Copy Art workbook). In 1982 she used a Gravitronics system which led to larger opportunities such as: a space center residency, teaching computer graphics at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA (CAD, PC paint, and Macintosh desktop publishing), Director position at the Macintosh Business Training Center, and a career developing training for employees and customers of numerous startups and corporations in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area corridor through 2007.

As a visiting artist in 1981, Lloyd worked at the Image Resource Center in Cleveland to create the first color Xerox billboard art assisted by the Cleveland Institute of Art printmaking faculty, Alexander Aitken. This was her third copy art billboard exploring the use of Xerox copiers in large formats. She continued to produce billboards nationally participating in The Art Billboard Project documented in her book Billboard Art. She currently advises artists on the art of making billboards.

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