ABOUT
Lauren Alyssa Bierly is an interdisciplinary artist with fifteen years of exhibition management experience in contemporary art, design and fashion. Lauren's artwork is informed by language, ecology, and architecture, and rooted in phenomenology, or a philosophy of experience. Through the repetitive mapping of inner environment to outer environment, she creates mixed-media installations, renderings, paintings, drawings, and site documentation.
Lauren's art practice began as an observation of her personal experience with synaesthesia, a neurological trait where one sensory receptor, like reading letters and numbers, simultaneously activates another receptor, like color. She is interested in the intersection of sensory languages--like color perception, sound recognition, and time sensing--and how these hidden vocabularies shape our individual identities in relation to time and place.
Through two ongoing projects--"Color Translations," an exploration of her inner world, and "Architecture of Memory," an exploration of her outer world--Lauren captures precise moments in sensory time.
Lauren has presented her work in New York City, California, New Jersey, Oregon, Kolkata, Moscow, and Oxford. She will be artist-in-residence at Taleamor Park (2025, Indiana) next spring, and previously at Playa Art + Science (2020, Oregon); chaNorth Residency (2018, New York); Starry Night Residency (2017, New Mexico); Panoply Performance Lab (2016, New York) and 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.
In 2021, Lauren joined the Brooklyn Museum as Senior Exhibitions Project Manager after prior management roles with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She has held positions with Museum of Arts & Design, Christie’s, Trestle Art Space, and Eyebeam Art & Technology since 2009 in New York City. 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; lectured at Evergreen State College, Parsons School of Design, SCAD Atlanta, and Montserrat College of Art; and been a visiting artist for Art Society, 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 City, 2010). She is continuing education at Textile Arts Center (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).
Photo: © 2022 Matt Vicari. All rights reserved.
Lauren's art practice began as an observation of her personal experience with synaesthesia, a neurological trait where one sensory receptor, like reading letters and numbers, simultaneously activates another receptor, like color. She is interested in the intersection of sensory languages--like color perception, sound recognition, and time sensing--and how these hidden vocabularies shape our individual identities in relation to time and place.
Through two ongoing projects--"Color Translations," an exploration of her inner world, and "Architecture of Memory," an exploration of her outer world--Lauren captures precise moments in sensory time.
Lauren has presented her work in New York City, California, New Jersey, Oregon, Kolkata, Moscow, and Oxford. She will be artist-in-residence at Taleamor Park (2025, Indiana) next spring, and previously at Playa Art + Science (2020, Oregon); chaNorth Residency (2018, New York); Starry Night Residency (2017, New Mexico); Panoply Performance Lab (2016, New York) and 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.
In 2021, Lauren joined the Brooklyn Museum as Senior Exhibitions Project Manager after prior management roles with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She has held positions with Museum of Arts & Design, Christie’s, Trestle Art Space, and Eyebeam Art & Technology since 2009 in New York City. 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; lectured at Evergreen State College, Parsons School of Design, SCAD Atlanta, and Montserrat College of Art; and been a visiting artist for Art Society, 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 City, 2010). She is continuing education at Textile Arts Center (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).
Photo: © 2022 Matt Vicari. All rights reserved.
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