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Born Chicago IL, 1977  
 
Education  
1999-2001 MFA, Yale University, Painting and Printmaking; New Haven, CT
1995-1999 BFA, University of California; Los Angeles, CA.
1997-1998 Studio Art Centers International; Florence, Italy.
   
 Solo Exhibitions                               
2010 The Only Way Out is Through, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2008 Dark Skate Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery project space, Miami, FL
  Dark Skate, DCKT Contemporary, New York
  Dark Skate, La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Dark Skate, Pulse London, Solo Project with DCKT Contemporary
2006 The World is Bound in Secret Knots, DCKT Contemporary, NY
2005 And The Darkness Implies the Vastness, Sandroni Rey Gallery, LA
   
Selected Group Exhibitions   
2010 Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Skateboarding Side Effects, Terrace Gallery at Artisphere, Arlington, VA
  The Rise of RAD: Contemporary Art and the Influence of the Urethane Revolution, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2009 Superficiality and Superexcrescence, OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Ultrasonic International III, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Sandroni Rey Group Show, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Two person show, Artsource Consulting, 101 California, San Francisco, CA
2006-2008 Space is the Place, (traveling) Cranbrook Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI.  Bedoford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.  MOCA Scotsdale Arizona, AZ.  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PE.  Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.  Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.  Curated by Toby Camps and Alex Baker along with the ICI 2006-2008.
2006 Art Girls, Anna Hellwing Gallery, LA
  Flatfiles @ Haskins Laboratories, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2005 Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, NY
2004 Works on Paper, Sandroni Rey Gallery, LA
  Enchantment, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT
  Group Show, Sandroni Rey Gallery, LA
  SHAZAM!, Contemporary Artists and the Influence of Comics, MICA Baltimore
2003 Art Space, New Haven, CT
 
 
 

 
 Press/Publications  
2009 Melrod, George. “’Superficiality and Superexcrescence’ at Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery,” Art Ltd., September.
  Myers, Holly. “Art Review: ‘Superficiality and Superexcrescence’ at Ben Maltz Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, July 8.
  New American Paintings, December/January 2009, The Open Studios Press
2008 The New Yorker, “Goings on About Town, Lia Halloran”, September 1
  Time Out New York, ”Art Reviews, Lia Halloran” by Nuit Banai, September 4-10
  The Village Voice, “Best in Show” by R.C. Baker, August 27th
  FOAM Magazine, “Light it Up” by Kristie Griffith, October/November
  Ultrasonic III, Mark Moore Gallery Catalogue, September/ October
  Time Out New York, ”Art Reviews, Lia Halloran” by Nuit Banai, September 4-10 
  The New Yorker, “Goings on About Town, Lia Halloran”, September 1
  The Village Voice, “Best in Show” by R.C. Baker, August 27th 
  Ny Magazine, “Photographer Lia Halloran Captures Skaters Hitting Warp Speed” by Benjamin Genocchio, August 10
  The New York Times, ”View of Space From One Who Was There” by Roberta Hershenson, August 9
  The New York Times, “Art in Review, Lia Halloran” by Karen Rosenberg, August 8 
  Twisted Physics, “Rockets Red Glare”, by Jennifer Oullette, August 6
  ARTINFO, “Summer Art Shopping in New York”, by Judd Tully, July 28
  Style, “Skater in the Dark” by Ana Finel Honigman, July 24 
  Village Voice, “Sweet Shot” by Angela Ashman, July 16-22 
  The Boston Globe, “Lia Halloran; Dark Skate” by Cate McQuaid, June 12 
  The Boston Pheonix, “Fringe Festival” by Greg Cook, June 10 
  LA Weekly, “LA People 2008, Sk8r grrl” by Kristie Griffith, March 14th
  The Enquirer, “Easy to Get Lost in Space” by Sara Pearce, March 28
  City Beat, “Review; Space is the Place” by Angela Kilduff, March 10
  The Oxford Press, “Space is the Place’ Exhibit Out of This World”, February 8 
  Velvetpark Magazine, “Skater Artist Lia Halloran” by Grace Moon, January 11 
 2007 Off to London, Art in Hand, Zoe Strimpel, The New York Sun
  Extra, Emily Speers Mears, V Magazine
  Art Blasts Off, Brett Ascarelli, Diablo Magazine
  Insight: Space is the Place, Burton Wasserman
2006 Space is the Place Exhibition Catalogue, Essays by Alex Baker, Toby Camps, Svetlana Boym
2005 ART NEWS Magazine, Review ‘And the Darkness Implies the Vastness’ , by Briget Goodbody
  Los Angeles Times, Review ‘And the Darkness Implies the Vastness’, by David Pagel
2003 Cakewalk Magazine, Issue no.5 Winter 2003