For the past two decades, Lia Halloran’s artistic practice has explored the intersections of science and nature as primary entry points for conceptual and historical inquiry. Her projects span painting, drawing, long-exposure photography, video installations, and experimental darkroom techniques that merge painting and photography. Across these diverse mediums, Halloran engages with scientific history while challenging its traditionally empirical position to illuminate overlooked narratives, particularly those of women in science, queer communities, and other marginalized voices.

Her work draws inspiration from astrophysics, flight, crystal formation, cabinets of curiosities, and skateboarding, weaving together personal narrative with research-driven exploration. Recent highlights include a major commission for the Getty’s PST: Art & Science Collide exhibition and the co-authored book The Warped Side of Our Universe(Norton/Liveright, 2023) with Nobel laureate Kip Thorne. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the C.O.L.A. Master Artist Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Artworks Grant, and has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works in New York, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Caltech, and the Huntington Library.

Halloran’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, the Simons Foundation, Caltech, and the Norton Museum of Art, among others. Her practice has been widely profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNews, and New York Magazine. Halloran received her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999 and her MFA in Painting in Printmaking from Yale University in 2001. She lives and works in Los Angeles, is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and is a Professor in the Department of Art at Chapman University, where she teaches painting as well as courses that explore the intersection of art and science. 

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