ABOUT
Lia Halloran was born in Chicago, IL, and grew up surfing and skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pacifica, CA. She developed a love of science at her first job, during high school, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. 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. Halloran’s work often makes use of scientific concepts as a starting point and explores how perception, time, and scale inform the human desire to understand the world and our emotional and psychological place within it. Halloran has participated in several interdisciplinary projects with a variety of collaborators to curate exhibitions, write on art and science intersections, and experiment with new media technologies. She is currently working on a book with physicist Kip Thorne about the Warped Side of the Universe with Kip’s poetry and her paintings. In 2016, Halloran was awarded an Art Works Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for the project, Your Body Is a Space That Sees, and has held artist residencies at the American Natural History Museum in New York, Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and a research fellowship for the Visual Culture Program at Caltech and the Huntington in Pasadena. She is also the recipient of various awards including a C.O.L.A Master Art Fellowship.
Halloran’s work is held in various public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Simons Foundation, New York, NY; The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, among others. Halloran has been profiled in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNews, and New York Magazine.
Lia Halloran lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and is Chair of the Art Department and Associate Professor at Chapman University in Orange, CA, where she teaches painting as well as courses that explore the intersection of art and science.
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