About

Lorraine Walsh is an artist, educator, and curator with a lifelong passion for discovery at the nexus of art, science, and technology. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and she is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a National Science Foundation Award for visualizing radio astronomy and creating animations for an educational curriculum that teaches radio frequencies; an e-MobiLArt Euro grant (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists Collaborative Project) for collaborative new media interactive installations; and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Award. Additionally, Walsh’s research has been featured in The New York Times, the Leonardo Journal/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press and SciArt Magazine. Her experience also includes art direction and design for venues such as the Petrosains Discovery Centre & Science Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the National Geographic Society.

Walsh is the Founding Director of the New Media Department at the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA), where she was an Associate Professor of New Media prior to her joint appointment in the arts and sciences at Stony Brook University. Before joining UNCA, Walsh was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Digital Design and Interactive Media Program at Pratt Institute, NY. Other academic guest lecturer invitations/presentations include Barnard College, Drew University, University of Athens, Lafayette College, University of Lapland, Parsons Paris, Rutgers University, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Western Carolina University, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.  

Currently, Lorraine Walsh is Professor of Practice in the Department of Art, and Artistic Director for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. She directs the Simons Center Art and Outreach Program, the Simons Center Gallery, and is the Executive Director of SCGP News—the Center’s biannual newsletter.