Lia Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist and philosopher whose work approaches the human subject as a living threshold through which the sacred enters form. Renowned for treating consciousness itself as artistic material, she explores perception not as representation but as revelation — an event in which presence replaces image and direct encounter supplants object.
Working at the convergence of spiritual technology, scientific inquiry, and embodied experience, Chavez investigates how heightened awareness crystallizes as formal beauty. Her practice unfolds through light, temporality, and perceptual immersion, examining how inspiration operates as a penetrative force through which divine intelligence becomes sensible within lived reality.
Educated at the University of Oxford and Goldsmiths, University of London, her doctoral research engaged the phenomenology of perception developed by Henri Bergson, with sustained inquiry into duration, consciousness, and integrative intelligence. These philosophical foundations remain embedded in her work, which continually probes the porous boundary between material experience and immaterial presence.
Initiated within Christian, Himalayan, Andean, Egyptian, and Mayan contemplative traditions, Chavez conceives installations, performances, and sculptural environments as contemporary architectures of consciousness — spaces that reorganize perception and render transcendence experiential rather than symbolic. Her works function as perceptual laboratories, inviting participants into expanded states of attention where body, space, and superconscious awareness converge.
Integral to her practice are ongoing collaborations with neuroscientists investigating creative inspiration, with groundbreaking research published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Tate, the Istanbul Biennial, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, positioning her practice within both experimental research and contemporary art discourse.
Through Hildegaard, her luxury house devoted to sacred embodiment, Chavez develops projects that weave ecology, ritual, and beauty into new models of cultural production rooted in reverence and sensory intelligence. She has contributed to global conversations on art and consciousness through keynote engagements at the Wall Street Journal Future of Everything Festival and the Creative Time Summit.
Chavez lives and works in the Yucatán jungle, where her practice remains in continuous dialogue with landscape, experimental ceremony, and divine intelligence, sustaining art as an interface between perception and presence, becoming and form, heaven and earth.
