Lori Hepner is an artist working across photography, new media performance, and
community centered public art projects in her practice, Drawing with Light. She aims to
make the invisible visible through movement, light, and time using self-built programmable
and wearable LEDs that use her photographic images to make movement drawings as real-time
projections.
Univ. of Nebraska Omaha artist talk: https://youtu.be/x3zeIZjT9_M?si=hK0CATHuqF2kxIOJ&t=138
The artist has participated in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the
Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh; A.I.R. Gallery in New York; CENTER in Albuquerque,
NM; Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX; the Photo España Festival in Madrid,
Spain; the Noorderlicht Photofestival in the Netherlands; the Lishui Photography Festival n
Lishui, China; Cambridge University in England; Duke University in Durham, NC; and
Oregon State University in Astoria, OR; amongst others.
She was a Fulbright Specialist to Norway in 2019 and was the 2023-24 Penn State
Laureate. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the
Carnegie Museum of Art, BNY Mellon, PNC Bank, and the Benter Collection, amongst
others. Hepner holds an MFA in Digital Media from RISD and a BFA in Fine Art Photography
from RIT. She is a Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny in
McKeesport and was the 2023-24 Penn State Laureate.
