ABOUT
Lauren Alyssa Bierly is a mixed media, abstract artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She's curious about the architecture of consciousness and its relationship to time. Looking both inward and outward simultaneously, she studies emotional time through color, form, light, sound, and language.
For the first decade of her art practice, Lauren separated her inner and outer perceptions into different series--Color Translations and Architecture of Memory (also Archimem). Color Translations explores her inner world, or mindspace, documenting personal experience with synesthesias and other perceptual phenomena. Archimem explores her outer environments, a body sphere, highlighting sensory perceptions within the context of nature. Currently, Lauren is learning to bring these two series together through new mediums glass and fiber further exploring the spectrum between mind and body.
Lauren has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She was artist-in-residence at Taleamor Park (2025, Indiana); ChaNorth Residency (2025/2018, New York); Playa Art + Science (2020, Oregon); Starry Night Residency (2017, New Mexico); Panoply Performance Lab (2016, New York); Trestle Art Space (2015, New York). She was a member of collective Incredible Witness with performance artist and scientist Clarinda Mac Low and poet Allison Parrish from 2015–2017, and a participant of the University of Sussex’s research on synaesthesia since 2013.
Lauren has fifteen+ years of exhibition management experience in contemporary art, design and fashion. She currently works with Brooklyn Museum as an exhibition project manager after prior management roles with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Lauren has participated on panels organized by American Synesthesia Association and UK Synaesthesia Association, Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art. She's lectured at Evergreen State College, Parsons School of Design, SCAD Atlanta, and Montserrat College of Art, and been a visiting artist for ChaNorth Residency and Trestle Art Space.
Lauren studied Architecture, Cartography and Italian Literature with Sede di Roma (Rome, Italy, 2007). She earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA, 2009) and Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (New York, NY, 2010). She is continuing education at Textile Arts Center and Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY).
INTERVIEWS
"One Question for Lauren Alyssa Bierly: The Language of Color," Psychology Today, Abigail Fagan. (Jan/Feb 2023).
"In Conversation with Lauren Alyssa Bierly," MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture, Ilknur Demirkoparan and Vuslat Katsanis. (July 2021).
SENSORY PROMPTS
Sense<>Emotion Prompts here
ARTIST CV here.
Photo: © 2022 Matt Vicari. All rights reserved.
For the first decade of her art practice, Lauren separated her inner and outer perceptions into different series--Color Translations and Architecture of Memory (also Archimem). Color Translations explores her inner world, or mindspace, documenting personal experience with synesthesias and other perceptual phenomena. Archimem explores her outer environments, a body sphere, highlighting sensory perceptions within the context of nature. Currently, Lauren is learning to bring these two series together through new mediums glass and fiber further exploring the spectrum between mind and body.
Lauren has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. She was artist-in-residence at Taleamor Park (2025, Indiana); ChaNorth Residency (2025/2018, New York); Playa Art + Science (2020, Oregon); Starry Night Residency (2017, New Mexico); Panoply Performance Lab (2016, New York); Trestle Art Space (2015, New York). She was a member of collective Incredible Witness with performance artist and scientist Clarinda Mac Low and poet Allison Parrish from 2015–2017, and a participant of the University of Sussex’s research on synaesthesia since 2013.
Lauren has fifteen+ years of exhibition management experience in contemporary art, design and fashion. She currently works with Brooklyn Museum as an exhibition project manager after prior management roles with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Lauren has participated on panels organized by American Synesthesia Association and UK Synaesthesia Association, Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art. She's lectured at Evergreen State College, Parsons School of Design, SCAD Atlanta, and Montserrat College of Art, and been a visiting artist for ChaNorth Residency and Trestle Art Space.
Lauren studied Architecture, Cartography and Italian Literature with Sede di Roma (Rome, Italy, 2007). She earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA, 2009) and Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (New York, NY, 2010). She is continuing education at Textile Arts Center and Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY).
INTERVIEWS
"One Question for Lauren Alyssa Bierly: The Language of Color," Psychology Today, Abigail Fagan. (Jan/Feb 2023).
"In Conversation with Lauren Alyssa Bierly," MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture, Ilknur Demirkoparan and Vuslat Katsanis. (July 2021).
SENSORY PROMPTS
Sense<>Emotion Prompts here
ARTIST CV here.
Photo: © 2022 Matt Vicari. All rights reserved.
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