About Me

Biography

Lisa Teng is a visual artist born and raised in Taiwan. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Teng mainly uses photography, video and audio as her mediums to explore how memories play a role in traumatic life events. She works closely with her subjects and reconstructs their stories to create fictionalized moments, based on the actual facts of their circumstances, in pictorial form. Her art therefore acts as a witness to the past. She found her passion for image-making when she was a photo student at De Anza College.  This led her to pursuit her studies in graduate school.  She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San José State University and her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Iran.

Classes I Teach

Fall 2025

CRNCourseSec.Title
02058PHTG 101YBasic Photography
02056PHTG 102YBasic Photography
28099PHTG 103YBasic Photography
02060PHTG 451YIntroduction to Digital Photography
26508PHTG 30101YBasic Photography
26532PHTG 30102YBasic Photography
28100PHTG 30103YBasic Photography
26540PHTG 30451YIntroduction to Digital Photography

Summer 2025

CRNCourseSec.Title
13062PHTG 450ZIntroduction to Digital Photography
11837PHTG 750ZExploring Visual Expression
13432PHTG 30450ZIntroduction to Digital Photography

Faculty Info

Lisa Teng

Lisa Teng
Full-Time Faculty

Photography

tenglisa@deanza.edu

A92

Education

M.F.A. San Jose State University

Office Hours

Please refer to the current syllabus.


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