Lia Halloran is an artist who often incorporates science and nature to create projects that draw from scientific materials, historical influences, and identities. She has participated in a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and architects including an upcoming book with Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne about the ‘Warped Side of the Universe’. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally and she is the recipient of various awards including an Art Works Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, The City of Los Angeles Visual Artist Fellowship, a residency at Caltech and the Huntington Research Institute, and a residency at the American Natural History Museum Astrophysics Department in New York, among others. Her work is included in various permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and permanent installations at the Simons Foundation in New York, and the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech Pasadena. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNews, and New York Magazine. Lia Halloran is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and is Chair of the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA, where she teaches painting and courses that explore the intersection of art and science.
