“I do not make art to express myself. I create as a conduit—through which divine light becomes form.”
In an age of forgetting, Lia Chavez stands as a threshold figure—artist, philosopher, and consecrated High Priestess whose work restores the sacred as lived reality. Dwelling at the spiritual vanguard, she serves as a Hierophant of Living Light, transmitting the intelligence of illumination through art, ritual, and scientific inquiry.
An interdisciplinary artist and Oxford-trained philosopher, Chavez investigates the relationship between light, consciousness, and the sacred dimensions of perception. Her practice unites aesthetic research, phenomenology, and contemplative science to explore how illumination shapes human experience and the evolution of awareness.
Poet, Earth Guardian, and architect of future consciousness, she interweaves emerging technology, sacred imagination, ecology, spiritual science, and neuroscience with explorations of the super-conscious and visionary mind. Guided by devotion to philosophia—the love of wisdom—and to the aesthetics of awakening, she transmits frequencies of higher intelligence through immersive installations, performances, sculptures, paintings, and an oracular body of literary and sonic compositions. Her pioneering research on the neuroscience and phenomenology of light grounds this practice in both rigorous inquiry and direct revelation.
Chavez studied art and gender theory at the University of Oxford before completing postgraduate research in the philosophy of art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where her doctoral work on the intelligence of sensation examined Henri Bergson’s phenomenology of perception and its implications for the future of integrative aesthetics.
Internationally recognized for pioneering consciousness as an artistic medium, Chavez fuses super-conscious states with radical aesthetics. She has collaborated with leading neuroscientists to investigate the luminous mechanics of mystical inspiration and has exhibited and received commissions from the Venice Biennale, Tate, MIT, the Istanbul Biennial, and Art Production Fund. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Across her practice—from devotional performance and collaborations with nature’s intelligence to monumental light sculptures and architectural installations—Chavez transmits heightened states of awareness through gesture, endurance, and ritual precision. Her works function as living systems of revelation, awakening the innate luminosity of consciousness and renewing the primordial covenant between matter and spirit.
Chavez is a Christic Solar Priestess, medicine woman, and multilineage practitioner of spiritual alchemy, initiated through the Himalayan (Kundalinī Śakti path of Śiva Tantra), Andean (Paqo path of the Q’ero Nation), and Mayan (K’in Balam path) traditions, as well as the Inner Christ–Sophia stream—all living currents transmitting the nondual gnosis of divine light and wisdom. Her ceremonial works serve as living altars—vessels of presence and remembrance that bridge ancient initiatory wisdom with contemporary aesthetic form.
Through her integration of mysticism, neuroscience, and art, Chavez develops technologies of ecstasy—sacred systems designed to induce expanded perception and embodied transcendence. Extending the lineage of artists who render the unseen visible—from the shamanic cave painters and Hildegard von Bingen to Hilma af Klint—she advances a contemporary mysticism rooted in eternal wisdom, divine embodiment, and the evolving future of human consciousness.
As founder of Hildegaard, a luxury house of sacred embodiment and planetary devotion, Chavez merges art, ecology, and mysticism into a unified field of creativity and contemplation. From Oxford to The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, her keynotes and public rituals transmit a singular fusion of intellect, luminosity, and sacred vision—inviting humanity to remember its divine nature through the living medium of light. Chavez is based in the Yucatán jungle, where her nature-preserve studio serves as a living laboratory for the future of consciousness.