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installation of tactile lace viruses and facial peel sculptures commissioned for exhibition about disability and female identity

"Doilies" and "Renatured" on view in "Fragile Forms" at NYU Langone Art Gallery

digitally fabricated lace sculptures depicting viruses (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)

computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with retina anatomy as decorative motif

computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel

computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif

computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel

handmade wallpaper printed with blood and sculpture made from facial peel in exhibition exploring materials and craft

artworks rematerializing the invisible included in exhibition exploring intersections of art and science

Museum of Arts and Design, Curator's Essay by David McFadden—The body, in all of its manifestations as surface, structure, and content, is zealously explored by Laura Splan. Splan's approach to depictions of the body is to fragment it into manageable portions, thus allowing for a much deeper investigation

Triënnale Brugge, Curatorial Essays by Till-Holger Borchert, Michel Dewilde—With "TraumA", the Triennial of Bruges dives into the ‘uncanny’ history and reality of Bruges. Historical layers are exposed, forgotten or hidden storylines discussed. This edition explores the thin line between dream and trauma, between paradise and hell.

Arsenal Pulp Press, By Leanne Prain—"Hoopla", by the co-author of the bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it's never gone before, in an astonishing full-colour display of embroidered art.

Laura Splan’s interdisciplinary contemporary art has been featured in books, exhibition catalogs, and scholarly journals traversing Science, Technology, Craft, and Culture. Publications featuring her artwork include “The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art & Architecture.”

Acquisitions: computerized jacquard weaving with biometric pattern acquired by Spalter Digital Art Collection

computerized Jacquard weavings with data-driven patterns created with EMG recordings of bodily movement

Acquisitions: computerized jacquard weaving with biometric pattern acquired by Thoma Foundation Digital Art Collection

hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel

computerized Jacquard weavings with biometric data patterns included in exhibition of artwork that transforms human movement

"Embodied Objects" computerized weaving with electromyography data-driven pattern in "Electric Op" at Musée d’art de Nantes

"Embodied Objects" computerized weavings with electromyography data-drive patterns in "Electric Op" at Buffalo AKG Art Museum

sciart collaboration with theoretical biophysicist Dr. Adam Lamson on animations, soundscapes, weavings, and public presentations

computerized weaving & archival pigment print with biometric data-driven patterns in "Cut from the Same Cloth" (Palo Alto)

weavings depicting computer-generated visualizations of computational simulations of biophysical interactions

group exhibition that examines the intersections of science and art through contemporary art practice

selected work from Thoma Foundation digital art collection with Laura Splan, Beryl Korot, Vera Molnar, Steina Vasulka

Art Interview in Craft Magazine

Museum Kunst der Westküste, Essays by Thorsten Sadowsky, Martina Nommsen, Lea Heim—Laura Splan translated into embroidery code by means of a computer program. Disturbingly beautiful, the "Doilies" strikingly resemble the lace doilies that were a staple of 19th century middle-class interior decoration, though they are the product of an embroidery machine.

Catalog for Solo Exhibition, Occurrence Gallery—Catalog for the Solo Exhibition "Embodied Objects" including digitally fabricated weavings, 3D-printed sculptures and giclée prints made with biometric EMG data-driven patterns and forms exploring embodiment, labor and emotion.

site-specific intervention commissioned for Bruges Triennial with animations and sculptures exploring theme of “trauma”

Art Interview in Science Friday

Disability Studies Quarterly, Jessica A. Cooley & Dr. Ann M. Fox—Totems of the beauty myth, the domestic, and genetic identity merge here strikingly, as Splan suggests the extent to which we attempt, through social convention and scientific knowledge, to embroider identity into place as a fixed and defined thing...

installation including photographs and a hand-knit vinyl tubing sculpture that is continuously pumped with blue liquid

Leonardo LASER NYC / LEAF, Artist Talk with Panel Discussion, "Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) Rendezvous"

installation with digitally fabricated weavings, prints, and sculptures exploring the rematerialization of bodily experience

Reaktion Books, By Anne Green—A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion. This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their cultural significance.

TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, Armida De La Garza—...this article employs the concept of inter-semiotic translation to explore the role that textile art in the form of dress and accessories can have translating, metaphorically, scientific concepts and ideas into a material incarnation, and what is at stake in this materiality.

"Beehive" (1993–1996) collaboration with Allyson Shaw included in exhibition documenting zines’ relationship to subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk to conceptual, queer, and feminist art

group exhibition exploring the mediated world's impact on and relationship to the physical body in our increasingly virtual realm

site-specific sculptural interventions constructed from remnant cosmetic facial peel commissioned for group exhibition

Santa Monica Art Center, Essay by Ian Alan Paul—In "Syndemic Sublime’s" computer-generated animations of SARS-CoV-2, antibodies, and cell receptors, we observe the intricate folds and features of this biotechnical (or is it technobiological?) landscape...formal boundaries between an algorithm and a life blur...

Awards & Grants: MAAF grant for completion and presentation of new works in genres of sound art and moving image art, including emergent technology