Lisa Moses is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work spans painting, drawing, installation, spatial design, writing, and research. Her practice explores the relationships between consciousness, ecology, perception, and the built environment, drawing from biomimicry, sustainability, contemplative practice, neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, and the study of living systems.
For more than two decades, Moses has developed a body of work rooted in the study of the natural world. She investigates how human perception shapes reality, and how the intelligence of nature can transform the ways we create, inhabit, and relate.
Her work is grounded in a lifelong concern for ecological interdependence. She earned her Master of Interior Architecture (Adaptive Reuse) from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006, a Graduate Collegiate Teaching Certificate from Brown University in 2005, and her BFA in Sculpture from Pennsylvania State University in 2001. This foundation allows her to move fluidly between disciplines: from the intimacy of drawing and painting to the scale of architectural environments, installations, and exhibitions.
Moses approaches creative practice as a form of inquiry. Her paintings and drawings often operate as perceptual fields which are layered, rhythmic, and alive with the tension between structure and flux. Her installations and spatial works extend this inquiry into embodied experience, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to place, material, memory, and the living world. Across media, she is interested in the deep interconnection of all things: the patterns of growth and decay, the intelligence embedded in matter, the ways bodies sense space, and the unseen forces that shape experience.
Her work has been featured nationally and internationally, and has been featured in The New York Times, Interior Design Magazine, Artforum, and The Boston Globe. She has received honors including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the ASID Crystal Award, First Place in the IIDA International Sustainable Design Competition, and the Bessie Award for Performance, Installation, and New Media.
An educator since 2003, Moses has taught at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, Naropa University, the University of Colorado, Rochester Institute of Technology, and other colleges and universities across the United States. Her teaching and mentoring are grounded in rigorous visual inquiry, conceptual development, ecological awareness, and the cultivation of an authentic creative voice. She continues to support artists, designers, students, and entrepreneurs through critiques, workshops, visioning sessions, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Moses is especially interested in the future of art as a site of ecological, scientific, and contemplative research. Her long-term vision includes collaborations with botanists, ecologists, neuroscientists, synthetic biologists, material researchers, and institutions exploring consciousness, sustainability, perception, and living systems. She imagines creative works that not only reflect the intelligence of nature, but actively participate in regeneration, public awareness, and new models of relationship between humans and the built world.
Beyond the studio, Moses is an athlete, trail runner, cyclist, yogi, and lifelong student of movement, meditation, and holistic living. Embodied practice is central to her creative process. Time spent moving through forests, trails, weather, terrain, and wild landscapes continually informs her sense of composition, rhythm, endurance, perception, and aliveness.
Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Moses has lived and worked around the world. She is currently based in central Upstate New York where she works with clients, collectors, institutions, and collaborators across the country.

