Lauren Bierly is a visual artist and arts administrator living and working in New York City. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York City; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Kolkata, India. Bierly earned an M.A. in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York (2010), and Bachelor of Architecture and Minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009).
She was a resident artist at Starry Night (2017), Brooklyn Art Space (2016) and Trestle Art Gallery (2015). Bierly most recently exhibited at the Harlem School of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Panoply Performance Lab, and Tagore Center: Indian Center for Cultural Relations. She joined Incredible Witness collective in 2015, and has spoken on panels about sensory perception as a vehicle of empathy, synaesthesia, and non-profit arts management.
Bierly is also Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent productions include Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018); Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between (2017); Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016); and Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016). Since moving to New York City in 2009, Bierly has produced twenty-four exhibitions and artist-projects, coordinated more than ninety exhibition-related events and activities, and co-directed an artist/administrator residency through four seasons from 2010-2015.
Photo credit Matthew Vicari
She was a resident artist at Starry Night (2017), Brooklyn Art Space (2016) and Trestle Art Gallery (2015). Bierly most recently exhibited at the Harlem School of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Panoply Performance Lab, and Tagore Center: Indian Center for Cultural Relations. She joined Incredible Witness collective in 2015, and has spoken on panels about sensory perception as a vehicle of empathy, synaesthesia, and non-profit arts management.
Bierly is also Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent productions include Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018); Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between (2017); Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016); and Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016). Since moving to New York City in 2009, Bierly has produced twenty-four exhibitions and artist-projects, coordinated more than ninety exhibition-related events and activities, and co-directed an artist/administrator residency through four seasons from 2010-2015.
Photo credit Matthew Vicari