Lia Halloran
Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Art
Art, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Expertise: Contemporary Art; Painting/Drawing; Interdisciplinary Practice; Art/Science Collaborations
Office Location: Moulton Hall 144
Office Hours: Monday,10am-12pm | Wednesday, 10am-12pm and 4pm-5pm
Email: halloran@chapman.edu
- Education:
- University of California, Los Angeles, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Yale University, Master of Fine Arts
Biography
Lia Halloran received her BA in Art from UCLA in 1999 and continued to take astronomy
class while pursuing her MFA Painting in Printmaking at Yale in 2001. Halloran’s work
often uses concepts in science as a bounding point for her work, exploring how perception,
time, and scale informs 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. Solo exhibitions of her
artwork have been held at venues in New York at DCKT Contemporary, Fredric Snitzer
in Miami, FL, La Montagne Gallery in Boston, Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles, Artisphere,
Arlington Virginia, Martha Otero Gallery in Los Angeles, Pulse in London, England,
Hilger NEXT in Vienna, Austria and most recently at SACI in Florence, Italy. Her work
has been acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, The Speyer Family
Collection, New York, The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland and the Art Museum
of South Texas. 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 among others. Halloran has recently been awarded National Endowment for the
Arts, Art Works for Visual Arts grant ‘Your Body is A Space That Sees’ about the historical contribution of women in astronomy and opening at Caltech in
June of 2016 will be an exhibition tilted ‘Deep Sky Companion’ consisting of over 110 separate works cataloging the night sky. Lia Halloran lives
and works in Los Angeles and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art and Director
of Painting and Drawing at Chapman University where she also teaches courses that
look at how creativity and problem solving can be the point of intersection for art
and science.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Krone, Magdalena, PST Art & Science Collide, Sudkalifornien, Kunstforum International, March 2025
- WrapBook, Highlighting Artist featured in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time, Art and Science Collide Creativity and Curiosity, A Conversation about the Connections Between Art and Science, Getty Conservation Newsletter, Voulme 39, Numebr 1, Spring 2024 (interview)
- Black Sun, Shadow Moon, META Phase 1 Building Permanent Installation