Lia Chavez is a priestess who creates multidisciplinary work that magnifies divine presence. Her practice moves through art, philosophy, ritual, and science as vessels for making the sacred visible and felt.
She studied at Oxford and Goldsmiths, where her doctoral research examined Bergson's phenomenology of perception. Working with light and consciousness, she explores how transcendent experience becomes accessible in contemporary life.
Initiated through Christian, Himalayan, Andean, and Mayan mystical lineages, she creates installations, performances, and sculptural environments as ceremonial space for spiritual alchemy. She has collaborated with neuroscientists to study contemplative states, with findings in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Her work has appeared at the Venice Biennale, Tate, MIT, and the Istanbul Biennial.
Through Hildegaard, her house of sacred embodiment, she develops work integrating ecology and ritual. She has spoken at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival.
She works from the Yucatán jungle.
