Lia Halloran b. 1977
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Chair, Department of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Associate Professor of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Director of Painting and Drawing Area for Studio Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
EDUCATION
1999 – 2001 Yale University, New Haven, CT. MFA
1999 University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. BFA
1998 Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Black Sun, Shadow Moon, META Phase 1 Building, Permanent Installation
Double Horizon, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, July 2022
Your Body Is a Space That Sees, LAX Arts Exhibition Grant Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports Arts Program, Terminal 2, Delta, curated by Sarah Cifarelli (2021- 2025)
2021 Your Body Is a Space That Sees, LAX Arts Exhibition Grant Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports Arts Program, Terminal 1, Southwest, 14 original artworks curated by Sarah Cifarelli (2021- 2023)
The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Double Horizon, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA
Solar, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY
2019 The Same Sky Overarches Us All, University of Maryland Art Gallery, MD September-November 2019
Double Horizon, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Your Body Is a Space That Sees, Schneider Museum, University of Southern Oregon, Ashland, OR
2018 Lia Halloran, LUX Institute, Encinitas, CA
2017 Your Body Is a Space That Sees, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Deep Sky Companion, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2014 The Wonder Room, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy
2013 Dark Skate Vienna, BROTKunsthalle & Hilger NEXT, Vienna, Austria
Project Space, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Metamorphose, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Sublimation / Transmutation, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Folding/ Unfolding, Artisphere, Terrance Gallery, Arlington, VA
The Only Way Out Is Through, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY *
2008 Dark Skate, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Dark Skate Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Dark Skate, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
The World Is Bound In Secret Knots, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2007 Dark Skate, DCKT Contemporary, Pulse London, London, UK
2006 The World Is Bound with Secret Knots, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2005 And the Darkness Implies the Vastness, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Aesthetic Confinement; MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Seeing for Yourself: The Art and Science of Visualizing Hidden Worlds, Pacific Standard Time 2024 Art x Science sponsored by The Getty Foundation at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA (forthcoming)
2022 Seeing Stars, University of Leeds, curated by Hondartza Fraga, U.K.
2021 Art and Hope, USC Fisher Museum, curated by Edward Goldmund, Los Angeles, CA
C.O.L.A Visual Artist Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020-21 SKY, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design
2019 The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos in Art, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Sept- Jan 2020)
Everywoman Biennial, Bendix, Los Angeles, CA
Stargazers, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
Going Public, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Arts Exhibition Grant Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), 2019 forthcoming)
2018 Untitled San Francisco, with Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, San Francisco, CA
2017 Untitled, with Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles Miami, FL
Expo Chicago with Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, Chicago, IL
Space Is The Place, C. Nichols Project, Los Angeles
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
2016 From Galileo to Mars: Renaissance of the Artsciences: SACI Gallery in Palazzo dei Cartelloni, documentation of Your Body Is a Space That Sees'. Florence, Italy
Uncertainty, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA
2015 Better Far Pursue a Frivolous Trade by Serious Means, than a Sublime Art Frivolously, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles.
Petrohphila, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Curators Lab, Los Angeles CA
AmazoNIGHT, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Miscellanea, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Houston Biennial, New York, NY, curated by C. Finley
Your Shell Is Made of Air, The Meaningful City, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA*
2013 Pulse, Miami Basel, Martha Otero Gallery, Miami, FL
Sidewalk Surfing, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA
Cash, Cans and Candy; Art and Commerce, BROTKunsthalle & Hilger NEXT, Vienna, Austria *
ArtPad, Blythe Project, San Franciso, CA
Drawings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Universe City, The Fine Arts Gallery at CSULA, Los Angeles, CA
Oniomania, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain *
Skateboarding Side Effects, Terrace Gallery at Artisphere, Arlington, VA
The Rise of RAD: Contemporary Art and the Influence of the Urethane Revolution, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Girls Just Want to Have Funds, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA *
2008 Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, My Dear Watson, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA *
Group Exhibition, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
2006-08 Space Is the Place, curated by Alex Baker and Toby Kamps for Independent Curators
International, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield, MI; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Scottsdale Intersection of Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY *
2006 Art Girls, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flatfiles @Haskins Laboratories, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2005 Not Too Loose, Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Enchantment, untitled (space) gallery, New Haven, CT
SHAZAM!, Contemporary Artists and the Influence of Comics, MICA
Baltimore Institute, Baltimore, MD
Works on Paper, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
New Location, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Artspace, New Haven, CT
2001 Yale 2001 MFA Painting/Printmaking Exhibition, Norfolk, CT *
* = catalog
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRESS
2022
Mancini, Sophie, Space, New York Times, Departures Magazine, January 2022.
Amadour, Ricky, Conversations on Art: Lia Halloran, California Art Review, February 6, 2022.
Seeing Stars, University of Leeds, U.K., May 2022.
Sobel, Dava, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Sky and Telescope Magazine, January 2022.
Your Body Is a Space That Sees, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), May 2022.
Interview: Double Horizon, Lia Halloran, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, May 2022.
2021
Krupp, Dr. E.C., Blue Blazes (review of The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons), Griffith Observer, October 2021.
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Lia Halloran: The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons, Art and Cake Magazine, August 2, 2021.
Goldmund, Edward, Review of The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons, Voice Magazine, July 9, 2021.
Battaglia, Andy, How an Astrophysicist and a Painter Stared Down Black Holes, ARTNews Magazine, January 21, 2021.
Jone, Emma, Black Hole Survival Guide, Chemistry World, February 5, 2021.
2020
Thorne, Kip and Halloran, Lia, The Warped Side of the Universe, Scientific American, October 1, 2020.
Peschel, Joseph, Lost in Space in ‘Black Hole Survival Guide’, Boston Globe, December 3, 2020.
Ferris, Tim, How to Survive a Black Hole: Instructions and Other Brilliance from Astrophysicist Janna Levin, Tim Ferris Show, November 10, 2020. Time Meter, Scientific American Feature, October 2020.
Hill, Judith, Warped Space in Paint and Poetry, Caltech Magazine, Spring 2020.
Cameron, Britta, Lia Halloran: Double Horizon, Flaunt Magazine, January 29, 2020.
Young, Nina, Exhibit Explores Intersection of Space and Time Through Many Disciplines, Daily Bruin, February 10, 2020.
Mason, Shana Beth, Lia Halloran interview and limited edition Zine, Frontrunner Magazine, London, special presentation at Miami Basel.
2019
Black, Ezrah Jean, Lia Halloran: Double Horizon, Dark Passages, and Portraits of Consciousness, Artillery Magazine, April 25, 2019.
Jenkins, Mark, In the Galleries: L.A. Professor Finds Heavenly Inspiration in Harvard Computers, Washington Post, November 1, 2019.
Pravato, Mark, At UMD’s Art Gallery, Lia Halloran Pays Homage to Early Women in Astronomy, The Diamondback, September 9, 2019.
Enholm, Molly, ‘Lia Halloran Artist-in-Resident’, Fabrik Magazine, January 2019.
2018
Daichendt, James, ‘At Lux, Lia Halloran Creates the Experience of Science Through Art’, San Diego Tribune, September 30, 2018.
‘Fulcrum Arts Welcomes Five New Trustees’, Pasadena Now, September 21, 2018.
Bartels, Meghan, ‘Yusaku Maezawa's #dearMoon Project Aims for Lunar Art’, Space.com, September 20, 2018.
‘When Science Meets Art’, Cosmos, The Science of Everything, April 25, 2018.
‘Lia Halloran, Your Body Is a Space That Sees’, Wilderness, The Space Issue, January 2018.
2017
Solar Painter, The Limit Does Not Exist, Forbes Podcast with Christina Wallace and Cate Scott Campbell, December 18, 2017.
Krupp. E.C., Cosmic Blueprints, Griffith Observer, September 2017.
Cofield, Calla, Artist's Stunning New Exhibit Celebrates Harvard's 'Hidden' Female Astronomers, Space.com, May 2017.
Mizota, Sharon, Before 'Hidden Figures,' There Were the Harvard Computers. Now Their Work Has Inspired This Art, Los Angeles Times, May 2017.
Brown, Diane, “Diacritcs” 44, no 1, Cornell University, New York.
Pinkel, Sheila, “Uncertainty, An Exhibition Review”.
Nowlin, Stephen, “Welcoming Uncertainty: How Curiosity of the Unknown Continues to Spark Our Imaginations”, KCET.
2016
Oulette, Jennifer, This Exhibit Makes Cosmic Art Out Of The Night Sky, Gizmodo, August 2016.
Tu, Chau, “Reimagining The Astronomical Objects of Messier”, Science Friday, September 21, 2016.
Gailor, Rosie, “Blueprints of Space”, Ernest Magazine, October 2016.
Archer, Teresa Miller, “Warped Beautiful Space”, Darling Magazine, September 2016Arp, Dennis, “Into the Blue”, Chapman Now, Summer 2016
Arp, Dennis, PODCAST: “Into the Blue: Lia Halloran Interview”, Chapman Now, August 2016.
Popova, Maria, “Your Body Is a Space That Sees: Artist Lia Halloran’s Stunning Cyanotype Tribute to Women in Astronomy”, Brain Pickings, August 2016.
Ouellette, Jennifer, “This Exhibit Makes Cosmic Art Out Of The Night Sky” Gizmodo, June 2016.
Gailor, Rosie, “Blueprints Of Space” Ernest, No. 5, October 2016.
Platt, Mary, “Cosmic beauty”, Chapman Happenings, June 3, 2016.
2015
“Lia Halloran Awarded NEA Art Works Grant, ‘Your Body Is a Space That Sees’,” Wilkinson College of Art, Humanities and Social Science.
2014
Platt, Mary, "In the Spirit of Da Vinci", Chapman Magazine.
Preston-Zappas, Lindsay, "Carving The Cosmos: Artist Lia Halloran On Astrophysics The LA River, And Hanging Ten," LA Canvas, print interview, September/October 2014.
Cash Cans and Candy Catalog, published in Vienna by Verlag for Moderne Kunst, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle with essay by Katrin-Sophie Dworczak.
2013
Hong-Porretta, Souris, Outside The Lines: An Artists' Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations, ISBN 9780399162084, Penguin Publishing, 2013.
Haeney, Caitlin, “Sidewalk’s Up”, The Times-Tribune, PA.
Grega, Alicia, “The Artist's Studio: Sidewalk Surfing”, The 570.
Hughes, Christopher J., “A 360-Degree Look at Skateboarding”, Timesleader.com.
2012
Reviews, Harper's Magazine, November 2012.
Mason, Shana Beth, “Lia Halloran,” Artvoices Magazine, August 2012.
Grattan, Nikki, “Lia Halloran, Painter, Artist,” In The Make, Studio Visits with Artist and Designers, Spring.
Amir, “Lia Halloran’s Photographic Line Drawings Created by Skateboarding with Light,” Beautiful Decay Magazine, June 2012.
Loud Speaker, “Skateboarding with Light - Stunning Photographs by Lia Halloran,” Mumble in the Jungle, June 2012.
Bonker, Dawn, “Get Creative,” Chapman Magazine, Spring 2012.
Alumit, Noel, “Tilt-shift: Queer Art Moving in Different Directions,” Huffington Post, February 16, 2012.
Martinez, Alanna. “10 Global Art Exhibitions, From Daniel Heidkamp’s Luscious Landscapes to Ed Kienholz’s Early Works,” ARTINFO, January 27.
2011
Lacoste, Christina, “Off the Wall,” Dig Boston, November 11.
Walsh, Colleen, “Scaling Up and Down,” Harvard Gazette, November 10.
Slawitschka, Kurt, “Measure’s a Measured Success,” The Harvard Crimson, November 8.
“Size Matters,” Boston Globe, November 7.
Dela, Sasha, “Texas Contemporary Art Fair,” Temporary Art Review, November 1.
2010
Rule, Doug, “Crystal City: Lia Halloran and Sarah Strauss Have Created a ‘Cave’ of Huge ‘Crystals’, on Display at Artsphere,” Metro Weekly, November 18.
Campbell, Rebecca & Nicole Walker, ed. “A Game of Artist’s Telephone, Day 7,” The Huffington Post, September 1.
Siegel, Miranda, ed. “Galleries – Downtown – Lia Halloran,” New York Magazine, April 5.
2009
Melrod, George. “’Superficiality and Superexcrescence’ at Otis College of Art & Design, Ben Maltz Gallery,” Art Ltd., September.
Myers, Holly, “Art Review: ‘Superficiality and Superexcrescence’ at Ben Maltz Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, July 8.
2008
Griffith, Kristie, “Light It Up: Artist Lia Halloran’s Work Combines Her Loves of Science and Skating," Foam Magazine, October-November.
Banal, Nuit. “Art: Reviews: Lia Halloran, ‘Dark Skate’,” Time Out New York, September 4-10.
“Goings on About Town, Art : Galleries: Downtown Lia Halloran,” The New Yorker, September 1.
Baker, R.C., “Best in Show,” The Village Voice, August 27.
Pearse, Emma, “Photographer Lia Halloran Captures Skaters Hitting Warp Speed,” Nymag.com, August 22.
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Space Adventures, Real and Imagined,” The New York Times, August 10.
Hershenson, Roberta, “View of Space From One Who Was There,” The New York Times, August 9.
Rosenberg, Karen, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, August 8.
Ouellette, Jennifer, “Rockets Red Glare,” Twisted Physics, August 6.
Tully, Judd, “Summer Art Shopping in New York,” ARTINFO, July 28.
Finel Honigman, Ana, “Skater in the Dark,” Style.com, July 24.
Ashman, Angela, “Sweet Shot,” The Village Voice, July 16-22.
McQuaid, Cate, “Lia Halloran: Dark Skate,” The Boston Globe, June 12.
Cook, Greg, “Fringe Festival,” The Boston Phoenix, June 10.
Griffith, Kristie, “LA People 2008 - Lia Halloran: Sk8er Grrl,” LA Weekly, March 14.
Pearce, Sara, “Easy to Get Lost in Space,” The Enquirer, March 28.
Kilduff, Angela, “Review: Space Is the Place,” CityBeat, March 10.
Jones, Richard O., “Space Is the Place’ Exhibit Out of This World,” The Oxford Press, February 8.
Moon, Grace, “Skater Artist Lia Halloran,” Velvetpark Magazine, January 11.
2007
Foust, Jeff, “Review: Space Is the Place,” The Space Review, December 3.
Wasserman, Burton, “InSight: Space Is the Place,” Art Matters: The Philadelphia Region’s Magazine of the Arts, November 2.
Strimpel, Zoe, “Off to London, Art in Hand,” The New York Sun, October 11.
“The World Is Bound with Secret Knots,” NY Arts, January/February.
Speers Mears, Emily, “Space Race,” V Magazine.
Ascarelli, Brett, “Art Blasts Off,” Diablo Arts Magazine.
2005
Goodbody, Bridget L., “Reviews: Lia Halloran/Sandroni Rey,” ARTnews, December.
Pagel, David, “Price’s Resplendent Sculptures Pack a Punch,” Los Angeles Times, February 11.
2003
Cakewalk Magazine, Issue no. 5, Winter.
2000
“MFA 2001 at Green Hall Gallery,” New Haven Register, October.
1999
“Art in the News,” Pacifica Tribune, August 1.
“The Impact of Art,” Impact Magazine, January.
ARTICLES | CATALOGS | PUBLICATIONS
2023 Warped Passages (forthcoming with Norton/Liveright), co-authored with Dr. Kip Thorne, Caltech. Design by Rebeca Mendez, UCLA Design Media Arts Chair
2022 13 Ways of Looking, co-authored with Janna Levin, Pioneers Works Broadcast, NY, April 2022
2020 Black Hole Survival Guide, Janna Levin, Artwork by Lia Halloran, Penguin Random House, Knopf
2019 Your Body Is a Space That Sees publication with contributions from: Diane Ackerman, author, poet Anna Leahy, poet: Apeture, Janna Levin, astrophysicists: Barnard/ Columbia University, author: Black Hole Blues and Other Sounds from Outer Space, Maria Popova, author: Brain Pickings, Rebecca Oppenheimer, curator of Natural History Museum, NY, astrophysicists, Jennifer Oulette, science communicator: Gizmodo, Discovery, author: Me, Myself, Why, Lisa Randall, astrophysicists: Harvard University, author: Warped Passages, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Dava Sobel, author of Galileo’s Daughter, Longitude, The Glass Universe
2017 Exploring the Links of Contemporary Art and Anthropology: Archiving Epistemologies Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. Special Issue: NO STRINGS ATTACHED – Exploring the relationship between anthropology and contemporary arts. Guest Editor: Kris Rutten
2014 Text(ure), Modeling, Collage: Creative Writing and the Visual Arts, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2014 pages 117-133, DOI:10.1080/14790726.2013.871296, Anna Leahy, Lia Halloran, and Claudine Jaenichen Chapman University. The project explores balances of ritual and experimentation, intellect and empathy, and self- expression and audience in creative writing, studio art and graphic design. Examples of teaching practices and other pedagogical commonalities in the three areas are also main focal points.
2016 What We Talk About When We Talk About Creative Writing, edited by Dr. Anna Leahy, Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Deep Sky Companion Exhibition Catalog, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA. Designed by Claudine Jaenichen with contributions from Dr. Kip Thorne, Shana Beth Mason and man Caltech Scientists
2015 Your Shell Is Made of Air, Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery with essays by Jan Tumlir, Marcus Herse and Amy Howden Chapman
2014 The Science of Interstellar, (print edition), by Dr. Kip Thorne, WW Norton and Company, November 2014, illustration contribution
2013 Cash Cans and Candy Catalog, published in Vienna by Verlag for Modern Kunst, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle with essay by Katrin-Sophie Dworczak
Outside the Lines: An Artists Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations, Hong-Porretta Souris, Publisher: Penguin Group USA
2010 The Only Way Out Is Through, DCKT Contemporary, with essay Eschatia by Kristina Newhouse. Dark Skate, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2009 Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, with essays by Christopher Bedford, Kristina Newhouse, John Welchman, and Jennifer Wulffson
2006-08 Space Is the Place, curated by Alex Baker and Toby Kamps for Independent Curators International, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield, MI; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Scottsdale Intersection of Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY *
PUBLIC SPEAKING
2021 Art + Science, Art Dark, live event for the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Artists Lecture: Fellows of Contemporary Art
Artist Lecture: Picturing the Universe, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2020 Universe in Verse: live event April 19th, 2020 with Physicists Janna Levin, Kip Thorne, and Brian Greene, musicians Rosanne Cash, Patti Smith, Amanda Palmer, Zoë Keating, Morley, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, poets Jane Hirshfield, Ross Gay, Marie Howe, and Natalie Diaz, astronomers Natalie Batalha and Jill Tarter, authors Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Masha Gessen, Roxane Gay, Robert Macfarlane, and Neil Gaiman, astronaut Leland Melvin, playwright and activist Eve Ensler, actor Natascha McElhone, entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, artists Debbie Millman, Dustin Yellin, and Lia Halloran, cartoonist Alison Bechdel, radio-enchanters Krista Tippett and Jad Abumrad, and composer Paola Prestini with the Young People’s Chorus.
Lumens London: Seminar, invited speaker for panel discussing exhibition: SKY.
Exhibition lecture: with Fellows of Contemporary Art, Double Horizon, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA
Artist lecture: Fidelity Collection, Boston, MA
2019 Artist Lecture: Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Double Horizon
Gallery talk with Curator Tyler Stallings, Frank Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA
Artist Lecture, Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics.
2018 AxS Symposium, LASER Speaker Fulcrum Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pasadena, CA
Artist Lecture: University of San Diego, Department of Art, San Diego, CA
Artist Lecture: LUX Institute, Artist Pavillion, Encinitas, CA
Artist Lecture: American Natural History Museum, New York, Linden Theater, Central Park West
2017 Science on Tap, In conversation with Dean Andrew Lyon, Provisions, Orange, CA
Artist Lecture: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Lia Halloran and Jennifer Oulette: artist talk and gallery walk through of the exhibition 'Your Body Is a Space That Sees', April 29th, 2017
The Glass Universe: Dava Sobel in Conversation with Lia Halloran, Hosted by Janna Levin: Pioneer Works is pleased to host New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel in conversation with artist Lia Halloran to discuss Sobel’s new book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. January 19th, 2017, with Pop up exhibition featuring two works from ‘Your Body Is a Space That Sees’.
2016 Maria Popova and Lia Halloran in conversation. Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Hameetman Auditorium – Artist Lia Halloran and Maria Popova in conversation about the exhibition "Deep Sky Companion," currently on view at Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings, which is included in the Library of Congress archives of culturally valuable materials. She has also written for The New York Times, Wired UK, and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Fellow, December 18th, 2016.
From Galileo to Mars: Renaissance of the Artsciences, Studio art Center International. Florence, Italy. Featuring artists and guests from NASA – November 12, 2016: Until recently, space exploration was limited to sectors such as science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Lately, it has become evident that artists and designers can play a primary role in new discoveries and technological development of objects for space missions, including space ships spacesuits, and habitats. Program includes: Dava Newman, Deputy Director NASA; Lia Halloran, Artist; Nicole Stott, Astronaut; Paolo Nespoli, Astronaut; Guillermo Trotti, Space architecture/Designer.
VIDEOS | INTERVIEWS
C.O.L.A Visual Artist Fellowship InterviewArtCenter Exhibitions presents Lia Halloran: Double Horizon, Virtual walkthrough of the exhibition at Mullins Gallery, ArtCenter
Solar Painter: Artist Lia Halloran Is Breaking Boundaries From Our Solar System To Her Skate Park, The Limit Does Not Exist, Forbes Podacst
The Glass Universe: Lia Halloran, Dava Sobel and Janna Levin, Pioneer Works, featured on C-Span
Lia Halloran: the Intersection of Art & Science, Chapman University
PASSAGE, Documentary Film by Sandie Louit about the Dark Skate Series Passage
Interview with Lia Halloran on Fuel TV, October 2008, Fox Network
Measure for Measure Installation, Chapman University’s Guggenheim Gallery with curated artist Felicity Nove
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Better Far Pursue a Frivolous Trade by Serious Means, than a Sublime Art Frivolously, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles
2012 Gestalt, Facilitated and curated senior Chapman Student two-person exhibition Advocate Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA. Reviewed in the Huffington Post, and Advocate Magazine
2011 Measure for Measure, Travelling exhibition to Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Los Angeles Art Association, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Simons Foundation, New York, NY
Bingham McCutchen, Boston, MA
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Blue Shield of California, San Francisco, CA
Chapman University, Escolette Collection, Orange, CA
Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY
Dechert, Philadelphia, PA
Heller Ehrman, San Francisco, CA
McKenna Long & Aldridge, Washington, DC
The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Speyer Family Collection, New York, NY
Microsoft Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
California Institute of Technology, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pasadena, CA
GRANTS | AWARDS | RESIDENCY
2022 Caltech-Huntington Fellowship in Visual Culture, Pasadena, CA (December 2021- April 2022)
Arts Exhibition Grant Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports Arts Program (November 2021 – November 2022)
Faculty Opportunity Fund, Chapman University
2021 The Speed Limit of Your Curiosity, Faculty Opportunity Fund, Chapman University
2020 COLA Visual Artist Fellowship 2020/2021, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles
Kay Family Foundation (Internal) Lead-PI, Visual Data Collection and Organization
2018 Artist Residency Program, LUX Institute, Artist Pavilion September – October 2018, Encinitas, CA
Visiting Professor/ Artist in Resident, American Natural History Museum, Astrophysics Department, New York, NY
Artist in Resident, Science Department, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2018-2021 Arts Exhibition Grant Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), awarded for 2018-2021 exhibition cycle
2017 Faculty Excellence in Achievement in Scholarly and Creative Activity, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Scholarly/ Creative Activity Grant, The Earth Rotates Just a Bit Further, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2016 Distinguished Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity Award, Office of the Chancellor and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration
Artist Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2016
2015 National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works for Visual Arts funding “Your Body Is A Space That Sees”, Washington, D.C.
Co-Teaching Award for the course UP with Dr. Anna Leahy, Claudine Jaenichen, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Scholarly/ Creative Activity Grant, Deep Sky Companion Exhibition at Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2014 Wang-Fradkin Professorship, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Scholarly/ Creative Activity Grant, Your Body Is a Space That Sees, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Personalized Education Grant, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Integratron funding. Chapman University, Orange, CA
2013 Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award, Diversity and Equity Awards, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Personalized Education Grant, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2012 Personalized Education Grant, The History of Art and Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Scholarly/ Creative Activity Grant, Digitizing Dark Skate, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2010 Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Schoelkopf Travel Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998 Werner Hirsch Award for Drawing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA