Community engagement and social justice
Digital / lighting / projection art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Lori Hepner
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Digital / photography
Murals
Site-specificity determines materials used
Larimer Caryatids, 2021, dye sublimination prints on EXT metal, 4k video projection, 2 facade murals, 16.5′ x 8/5′ per grouping; 10′ x 16′ video projection, photo by Morton Brown
Larimer Caryatids (left mural), 2021, dye sublimination prints on EXT metal, 4k video projection, 2 facade murals, 16.5′ x 8/5′ per grouping; 10′ x 16′ video projection, photo by Lori Hepner
Larimer Caryatids (right mural), 2021, dye sublimination prints on EXT metal, 4k video projection, 2 facade murals, 16.5′ x 8/5′ per grouping; 10′ x 16′ video projection
Air Above Us, 2021, canvas banners, cast aluminum QR code sculpture, site-specific augmented reality animations, 10.5′ x 4′ per banner
Blue Corona: Sunset Dances, 2021, digital pigment prints, 5′ x 54′, installed at PIT International Airport, Landside Terminal Ticketing Level
About the Artist
Lori Hepner is a Pittsburgh based new media artist working primarily in new media performance, fine art photography, and community centered public art projects.
She has spent considerable time over the last five years in community centered artist residencies in two Pittsburgh neighborhoods, in a small Arctic Community in coastal Norway, as well as residencies in Finland, Iceland, and the Canadian Yukon. Lori was featured in the WQED documentary, Visible, featuring five female artists from Pittsburgh, in Spring 2018.
A collaboration with singer Kendra Ross has manifested itself into live performance as Hepner & Ross in Intersection*ology, which has been awarded grants by the Heinz Endowments, the 2018 Carnegie International, and The Opportunity Fund. They have performed in Durban, South Africa, Richmond, Virginia, San Antonio, Texas, and Pittsburgh.
Lori’s personal photographic work has been featured in Time Magazine, Wired, and Next Level Magazine and has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, in photo festivals in the Netherlands, China, & Spain. One of her Twitter portraits from Status Symbols, as well as her performative photographs from #Crowdsourced Landscapes project, will be sent to live on the moon in 2022 in the mini-museum that is the MoonArk.
Hepner holds an MFA in Digital Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State University’s Greater Allegheny campus.
Photo by Lori Hepner
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, 2021-22;
- Fulbright Specialist Grant, 2019;
- University College Research Award at Penn State University, 2020;
- Investing in Professional Artists Grant: Heinz & Pittsburgh Foundations, 2016-17;
- Carnegie Museum of Art Purchase Award, 2012
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 11-18
Joined the Directory
March 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“As an artist, I am interested in working on public art projects that allow communities and individuals to experience the creative process through situations that provide a sense of wonder and discovery without the need for any prior artistic skills or background. In my public art projects, drawing with light allows the invisible to become visualized.”
Lori Hepner
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
