ABOUT
Lauren Alyssa Bierly is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist with nine-years progressive exhibition management experience in contemporary art, design and fashion. Her artwork is rooted in perception and inspired by ecology, language and architectural theory. 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—like color perception, sound recognition, memory—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place.
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. 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.
Before turning full time to her studio practice, Bierly was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016 through 2020. She managed production for About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Rei Kawakubo | Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016), and Manus x Machina: Art in An Age of Technology (2016) in collaboration with her costume colleagues. Prior to working with The Costume Institute, 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), Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and Certificate in Executive Leadership from Columbia Business School (2019).
Photo credit Matthew Vicari
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. 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.
Before turning full time to her studio practice, Bierly was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016 through 2020. She managed production for About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020), In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Rei Kawakubo | Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016), and Manus x Machina: Art in An Age of Technology (2016) in collaboration with her costume colleagues. Prior to working with The Costume Institute, 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), Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and Certificate in Executive Leadership from Columbia Business School (2019).
Photo credit Matthew Vicari
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