Lisa Moses is an artist, interior architect, and educator whose research-driven practice explores how architecture can participate in responsive, living, perceptual, and conscious systems. For more than two decades she has worked across biomimicry, adaptive reuse, material experimentation, and embodied perception. Her ongoing series Wisdom of the Living World investigates the patterns and networks through which living systems organize themselves, and her public installation Phi (Biennial of the Americas, 2013) used compost-filled burlap forms to remediate soil on a Denver brownfield. She is now extending this work into site-responsive projects at the intersection of art, landscape, and adaptive reuse, using regenerative and biologically cultivated materials.
Through her studio, Lion 8 Creative, she designs adaptive-reuse interiors, installations, and bespoke built works. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, Artforum, and Interior Design and supported by the NEA “Our Town” grant, among others. She fabricated the sewn inflatable forms for the Bessie Award–winning collaborative installation MIR2. An educator since 2003, she has taught at the University at Buffalo, the University of Colorado Denver, the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Naropa University, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She holds a Master of Interior Architecture (Adaptive Reuse) from the Rhode Island School of Design, a Collegiate Teaching Certificate from Brown University, and a BFA in Sculpture from Pennsylvania State University.
