Laura Splan
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Dystopia, Utopia
Solo Exhibition
"Hypertelic" in RYAN LEE Gallery's RL Window on the High Line
kaleidoscopic molecular animations featured on New York City's High Line
2025
Solo Exhibition
"Sticky Settings" Preview at UTS
immersive 360° installation with molecular animation and data-driven spatial sound
2022
Artwork
"Baroque Bodies (Ambient Portals)"
3D animations with molecular models and AI-generated images, accompanied by sonifications of scientific visualizations
2022
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" in "Life Eternal: The Nobel Prize Museum at Liljevalchs"
exhibition exploring notions of eternity with Laura Splan, Anna Dumitriu, Andrea Galvani, Mark Dion, Rineke Dijkstra, William Kentridge...
2022
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "NORMAL" for Art in Odd Places
molecular animations projected onto the Museum of Illusions for street festival
2021
Artwork
"Syndemic Sublime"
generative 3D animations using COVID death data to disrupt amino acid residues on intertwined human and non-human proteins
2021
Commission
"Disentanglement" and "Doilies" in "Triënnale Brugge"
interventions exploring theme of “trauma” for triennial with Laura Splan, Adrián Villar Rojas, Hans Op de Beeck, Henrique Oliveira, Héctor Zamora, Nnenna Okore...
2021
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "Pre-Show" at Rooftop Films Drive-In
screening of molecular animations with sound screened during Pre-Show at Drive-In Movie theater
2020
Artwork
"Unraveling"
animations created with molecular models of the coronavirus spike protein
2020
Solo Exhibition
"Unraveling" at BioBAT Art Space
immersive installation with molecular animations and soundscape exploring remote intimacies
2020
Artwork
"Termination Sequences"
remote sound collaborations with biotech workers and scientists rematerializing the coronavirus mRNA sequence
2020
Artwork
"Renatured"
archival pigment prints created with molecular models of coronavirus spike protein
2020
Artwork
"Lumen" and "Chaperone"
participatory haptic sound and textiles sculpture with rug made from hand-spun laboratory animal fiber
2019
Artwork
"Remote Entanglements"
fan networked to wind data at vivarium housing animals who produce pharmaceutical products exploring embodiment
2019
Artwork
"Needle in a Haystack" Book
artist book with photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic encounters in biotech laboratory
2019
Artwork
"Needle in a Haystack"
photographs from a biotech lab documenting mundane artifacts and poetic interfaces in biotech lab
2019
Artwork
"Sit Around and Wait"
neon sign exploring uncertainty and anticipation with quote from scientist waiting for laboratory experiment
2019
Artwork
"Blank Stare"
laser etchings on paper with data-driven patterns generated from biometric measurements of attention level
2016
Artwork
"Measured Gestures"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and aspirational adspeak in magazine ads
2015
Group Exhibition
"Negligee (Serotonin)" in "TechNoBody" at Pelham Art Center
group exhibition exploring the mediated world's impact on and relationship to the physical body in our increasingly virtual realm
2015
Artwork
"autologousReflection"
participatory sculpture with computer generated animation and text
2015
Artwork
"Meta Static II"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-spiritual imagery in magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2014
Artwork
"Meta Static I"
magazine collages using pseudo-scientific and pseudo-spiritual ads and hand-built ceramics with titles taken from adspeak
2013
Artwork
"Modular Systems"
collages made from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific magazine ads
2012
Artwork
"Serendipitous Destiny"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
Artwork
"Transfigurations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudo-scientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles taken from adspeak
2012
Artwork
"Qualitative Analysis"
videos that remix the scifi film “The Wasp Woman“ to explore notions of the mad scientist and unnatural transformation
2012
Artwork
"Distillations"
hand-cut collages made from pseudoscientific magazine ads with hand-built ceramics depicting ad imagery
2010
Artwork
"Reformulations"
collages assembled from hand-cut pieces of pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual magazine ads with titles from adspeak
2010
Artwork
"Exogenous"
paintings with varying dilutions of blood stenciled through doilies onto watercolor paper
2010
Artwork
"Enmeshed"
drawings on watercolor paper rendered with blood
2010
Artwork
"Subcutaneous"
hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel
2009
Artwork
"Negligee (Serotonin)"
computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel
2009
Artwork
"Negligee (Slipping Into the Skin of Another)"
computerized embroidery on sculpture made from remnant cosmetic facial peel
2009
Artwork
"Handkerchief (Anatomy of Tears)"
computerized embroidery on remnant cosmetic facial peel with tear duct anatomy as decorative motif
2009
Artwork
"Purse"
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculpture cast from breasts
2009
Artwork
"Gloves"
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculptures cast from artist's hands
2009
Commission
"Doilies" and "Trousseau" in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
textile sculptures in exhibition with Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Fried, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott...
2009
Artwork
"Wallpaper" & "Negligee" in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft
blood wallpaper and facial peel sculpture in exhibition with Laura Splan, Sonya Clark, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Marcel Wanders, Devorah Sperber...
2008
Artwork
"Incomplete Retrieval"
drawings of lace rendered in blood on watercolor paper
2007
Artwork
"X-Ray Visions & Morphine Dreams"
photographic light boxes with digitally composited X-rays created from found images
2005
Artwork
"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003
Artwork
"Tongue Depressors & Cotton Swabs"
hand-crafted speculative sculptures with accompanying performance video
2002
Artwork
"Blood Scarf"
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
Artwork
"Exam Gown"
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
Artwork
"Upside Down, Inside Out"
silicon rubber sculptures cast from test tubes
2000
Artwork
"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000