Hilary Lorenz

Nomadic. Curious. Restless.

Hilary Lorenz is a cross-disciplinary artist known for large-scale installations made from printed, cut, and woven paper. Her practice is shaped by curiosity, endurance, and a restless drive to connect with the natural world. She explores how movement, place, and material come together—and how art can help us feel more deeply connected to the environments we move through.

Letting her feet guide her, Hilary greets each new location—whether city street or mountain trail—by running, building an embodied sense of place. She translates these experiences into intricate two-dimensional works and immersive, room-sized installations using hand-printed paper, suminagashi marbling, and woven forms. From the coast of Maine to the high desert of New Mexico and the mountains of Tasmania, her work is a physical and material manifestation of place-based exploration.

Lorenz earned her MA and MFA in Printmaking and Intermedia from the University of Iowa, and an MS in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition at LIU Brooklyn, where she was a tenured professor and Chairperson of Visual Arts.

Her exhibitions include Denver Botanic Garden (CO); Bundaberg Regional Gallery (Australia); Wave Hill (NY); 516 ARTS (NM); Brooklyn Bridge Park (NY); Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Italy); Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut (France); and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

She has received residencies from the TIDES Institute (ME), LMCC Governors Island (NY), the Chilkoot Trail Residency (Canada), Cape Cod National Seashore (MA), ARTSTasmania (Australia), and the Lower East Side Printshop (NY). Lorenz is a Fulbright Scholar and NEA Mid-Atlantic Fellow.