Laura Splan

Laura Splan is a New York City based artist working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her research-based studio practice and interdisciplinary collaborations offer new possibilities for understanding complexity through curiosity, wonder, and play with tangible encounters with seemingly intangible worlds. Her artworks and exhibitions have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Santa Mònica Art Centre (Barcelona), Onassis ONX (NYC), Nantes Museum of Arts (Nantes), Galerie FOFA (Montréal), and The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs (Stockholm). Her work is represented in the collections of the Spalter Digital Art Collection and Thoma Art Foundation. Commissions include projects for the Museum of the Moving Image, CDC Foundation, Vanderbilt Planetarium, Beall Center for Art+Technology, and Bruges Triennial. Her lectures and talks have been presented by The National Arts Club, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, SciFoo at Google, and uConn Humanities Institute. Splan has held academic appointments at Stanford University and is a studio practice advisor at Plexus Projects and a mentor at NEW INC at the New Museum. She has been a visiting artist and critic at University of Cincinnatti and UNC Chapel Hill and served on selection committees for the Simons Foundation, I-Park, and ACRE. Publications featuring her artwork include “Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science” published by the Tang Museum and "Life Eternal" published by The Nobel Prize Museum. Reviews and articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, BOMB, and Frieze and she has been featured on Science Friday. Her research has been supported by the Simons Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Creative Australia. Awards include Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists Grant and an NEA Digital Arts Fellowship.