Laura Splan
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Microbes, Viruses, Bacteria
Collaboration
Digital Stone Project
robotically carved marble sculpture created in collaboration with Garfagnana Innovazione during the Digital Stone Project Artist Residency
2026
Group Exhibition
"Doilies" and "Renatured" in "Fragile Forms" at NYU Langone Art Gallery
featuring pioneering viral artworks (lace sculptures by Laura Splan, glass sculptures by Luke Jerram)
2025
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
Artwork
"Bloom"
immersive 360° installation with 16-channel spatial soundscape by Linda Dement and Laura Splan in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group at UTS
2024
Writing
Syndemic Sublime: Rematerializing the Expanded Biotechnological Apparatus in the Age of Remote Intimacy and Immediate Precarity
essay and artist talk written for "Possibles", the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
2023
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 "The Hidden Side of Lace" at CC De Ververij
exhibition exploring interpretations of lace with Laura Splan, Wim Delvoye, James Lee Byars, Dirk Braeckman, Guy Mees, René Heyvaert, Tatjana Wolska...
2022
Commission
"Syndemic Sublime" in "La irrupció" at Santa Mònica for ISEA
electronic art exhibition with Laura Splan, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Sofia Crespo, Marina Núñez, Robertina Šebjanič, Nick Montfort...
2022
Writing
Host: Reflections on Disease, Domesticity, and Decorum
short story about long silences in the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
2022
Group Exhibition
"Syndemic Sublime" at Pioneer Works
installation for Second Sundays with Laura Splan, Tin & Ed, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Alexandra Bell, Lizzi Bougatsos...
2021
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
Artwork
"Disentanglement"
triptych sculpture with synchronous animation of 3D molecular models of the coronavirus, human cells, and non-human antibodies
2021
Solo Exhibition
"Entangled Entities" at The New Gallery
installation with sensory experiences exploring interspecies entanglement through networked devices and tactile sculpture
2021
Artwork
"Unraveling II"
synchronous molecular animation triptych created with coronavirus, llama nanobody protein models
2021
Group Exhibition
"Pandemic Panorama" in "The Archive to Come" at Telematic Media Arts
animations included in exhibition reimagining the digital archive in the face of a global pandemic & social justice movement
2020
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
"Denatured"
animations created with screen recordings of software performances using molecular visualization software
2020
Artwork
"Renatured"
archival pigment prints created with molecular models of coronavirus spike protein
2020
Group Exhibition
"Blank Stare" and "Doilies" in "The World Unseen: Intersections of Art and Science" at CDC Museum
artworks rematerializing the invisible included in exhibition exploring intersections of art and science
2019
Commission
"Host" in "Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS" at Van/Every Smith Gallery
installation in exhibition with Laura Splan, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, Robert Farber, Mike Hoolboom, Frederick Weston...
2014
Commission
"Surface Tension" in "Watching Hands" at CDC Museum
soap bubble residue drawings in exhibition with Laura Splan, John Bankston, Didi Dunphy, Katherine L. Ross, JamesVictore…
2011
Artwork
"Doilies (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)"
digitally fabricated lace sculptures depicting viruses (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)
2004
Artwork
"Virus"
watercolor paintings of viruses rendered in blood on paper
2003
Artwork
"Vigilant"
latch hook soft sculptures depicting microbes
2002
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