ABOUT
Lauren Alyssa Bierly is an interdisciplinary artist with ten-years exhibition management experience in contemporary art, design and fashion. Her artwork is rooted in phenomenology and inspired by ecology, language and architecture. Through processes of mapping, her work takes the form of site documentation, color journals, mixed-media installations, and text-to-color reflections. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages in our environments—like color perception, sound recognition, time sensing—and how these sensory vocabularies shape our subjective experience of identity and connection to place.
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, Kolkata, and Moscow. She was artist-in-residence at Playa: Art + Science (2020); chaNorth Residency (2018); Starry Night (2017); Panoply Performance Lab (2016) and Trestle Art Space (2015). In 2015, she joined collective Incredible Witness developing perception-based community exercises through the lens of game theory with Clarinda Mac Low and Allison Parrish. She is a regular participant of the University of Sussex’s ongoing research on synaesthesia since 2013.
In 2021, Bierly joined the Brooklyn Museum (BKM) in New York as Exhibition Project Manager. Prior to working with BKM, she was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute (CI) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016 through 2020. She managed production for seven exhibitions including About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), and Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018) in collaboration with her costume colleagues. Prior to working with CI, Bierly was Acting Director of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Art's Project Space, and Administrative Coordinator for the foundation's three programs from 2010 through 2015. She held positions at Trestle Art Space, I-Park Foundation, Eyebeam Art + Technology, Museum of Arts & Design, Christie's, and Johnsrud Architects since 2006. She participated on panels organized by Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art, and been a guest critic at chaNorth Residency and Trestle Art Space.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), and Master of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010). She lives and works in New York City with her photographer partner and their tabby rescue.
Photograph by Matthew Vicari.
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, Kolkata, and Moscow. She was artist-in-residence at Playa: Art + Science (2020); chaNorth Residency (2018); Starry Night (2017); Panoply Performance Lab (2016) and Trestle Art Space (2015). In 2015, she joined collective Incredible Witness developing perception-based community exercises through the lens of game theory with Clarinda Mac Low and Allison Parrish. She is a regular participant of the University of Sussex’s ongoing research on synaesthesia since 2013.
In 2021, Bierly joined the Brooklyn Museum (BKM) in New York as Exhibition Project Manager. Prior to working with BKM, she was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute (CI) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016 through 2020. She managed production for seven exhibitions including About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), and Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018) in collaboration with her costume colleagues. Prior to working with CI, Bierly was Acting Director of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Art's Project Space, and Administrative Coordinator for the foundation's three programs from 2010 through 2015. She held positions at Trestle Art Space, I-Park Foundation, Eyebeam Art + Technology, Museum of Arts & Design, Christie's, and Johnsrud Architects since 2006. She participated on panels organized by Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art, and been a guest critic at chaNorth Residency and Trestle Art Space.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), and Master of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010). She lives and works in New York City with her photographer partner and their tabby rescue.
Photograph by Matthew Vicari.
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