Lia Halloran was born on 1977 and is an American painter and photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Lia Halloran's youth was spent skateboarding and surfing, first given a skateboard at the age of five, and at the age of 15 was featured in Thrasher magazine.
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Lia Halloran developed an early love for science during high school at her first job, where she performed cow eye dissections and laser demonstrations at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
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Lia Halloran teaches painting, as well as courses she personally designed that explore the intersection of art and science.
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Lia Halloran has been involved in several collaborative projects, including co-curating exhibitions, one with artist Rebecca Campbell titled, Better Far Pursue A Frivolous Trade By Serious Means, Than A Sublime Art Frivolously, and another exhibition about the nature of scale with physicist Dr Lisa Randall, titled Measure for Measure.
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Lia Halloran's work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, and ArtNews.
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Lia Halloran has had solo exhibitions at the DCKT Contemporary, Martha Otero Gallery, Hilger NEXT, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, LaMontagne Gallery and Sandroni Rey.
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Lia Halloran's work has been acquired by the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, The Speyer Family Collection, the Art Museum of South Texas, and The Progressive Art Collection.
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Lia Halloran's series, Deep Sky Companion, is a permanent installation of 110 circular works at The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, at Caltech in Pasadena, CA.
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Lia Halloran collaborated with architect David Ross to create the perfect physical and structural layout for the exhibition.
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Lia Halloran gave an interview about this work in Flaunt magazine.
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Lia Halloran's work is included in various permanent collections including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, and permanent installations at the Simons Foundation in New York and the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, CA.