ARTISTS
Lena Herzog (American, b. 1970, Russia) is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist exploring ritual, gesture, loss, and dislocation. Her work merges art and science through early/experimental photo techniques and cutting-edge sound, immersive installations, and VR. Expressionistic, her practice connects form and content. Growing up among scientists in the Urals, she studied languages/literature in Russia and history/philosophy of science in California. Discovering photography in the late 90s, she apprenticed in early processes, blending them with digital methods. Herzog’s global explorations span pilgrimage, dance, geology, and vanishing languages. She’s published six books, with work in NYT, New Yorker, etc. Exhibited internationally (ICP, LACMA, Peabody Essex). Her recent work, Last Whispers, an immersive oratorio on language extinction and dying stars, premiered at the British Museum and has toured globally, including a VR version at Sundance. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
