For more than two decades, Lia Halloran’s interdisciplinary practice has brought art and science into conversation, using scientific discovery, historical archives, and personal experience to explore questions of time, space, identity, and representation. Working across painting, drawing, photography, video, cyanotype, and experimental darkroom processes, she creates projects that translate complex scientific ideas into immersive visual experiences. Her work frequently recovers overlooked histories, with particular attention to the contributions of women and queer communities within astronomy, scientific research, aviation, and other traditionally male-dominated fields.

Halloran’s projects draw from astrophysics, flight, crystal formation, cabinets of curiosities, and skateboarding. Across these subjects, she combines extensive research with embodied experience, moving between the intimate scale of the human body and the vast scales of landscape and the cosmos. Recent projects include You, Me, and Infinity, a monumental cyanotype commissioned for the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide and presented in Crossing Over at Caltech, and The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves (Norton/Liveright, 2023) co-authored with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne. 

Halloran has received numerous awards and honors, including the City of Los Angeles C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant, the Caltech-Huntington Fellowship in Visual Culture, and Chapman University’s Wang-Fradkin Professorship. Her research-based practice has been supported through residencies and fellowships at Pioneer Works, the American Museum of Natural History, Caltech, the Huntington Library, and the LUX Art Institute.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, the Simons Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, Caltech, Microsoft, and the Norton Museum of Art, among others. Her exhibitions and projects have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ˆThe Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ARTNews, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, and New York Magazine. 

Halloran received a BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999 and an MFA from Yale University in 2001. She lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. She is a Professor in the Department of Art at Chapman University, with an affiliated appointment in the Schmid College of Science and Engineering, where she teaches painting and interdisciplinary courses that explore the intersections of art, science, and visual culture.

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