Laura Splan
Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice intersects science, technology, design and craft. Her conceptually-based work mines the materiality of biotechnology to reveal poetic subjectivities, hidden systems, and invisible labor. Her biomedical themed artworks have been commissioned by The CDC Foundation and exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and Beall Center for Art + Technology. Her work is represented in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and The NYU Langone Collection. Articles about her work have appeared in The New York Times, Discover Magazine, and Frieze. Splan’s research has been supported by The Jerome Foundation, Harvestworks, uCity Science Center, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has been a lecturer at Stanford University teaching courses including “Embodied Interfaces,” “Data as Material,” and “Art & Biology.” Her current projects include sculptures made with laboratory llama wool and animations made with molecular visualizations of SARS-CoV-2 structures.