BIO

Lois Goglia is an interdisciplinary visual artist, whose work bridges the fields of Art, Science, and Medicine. For over thirty years she has investigated the aesthetic and conceptual potential of diagnostic imaging technologies by incorporating radiographs, DNA sequencing gels, ultrasound scans, and cellular photographs into complex, mixed-media compositions by drawing from scientific archives and medical research, Goglia recontextualizes data-driven imagery to explore themes of human vulnerability, healing, and the body as a site of both biological function and emotional resonance.

Central to her interdisciplinary practice is the transformation of scientific artifacts into symbolic and metaphorical language. Goglia’s work probes the expressive power of visual systems typically reserved for clinical contexts by using formal elements such as line, transparency, layering, and repetition to suggest deeper narratives of memory, fragility, and renewal. In Healing Figures: Constructions of Renewal, fragments of X-rays are reimagined as archetypal symbols of endurance, spiritual mending, and corporeal transformation. Similarly, in Life Cycle, she integrates medical imagery with photocopied choral scores from her experiences singing with The New Haven Chorale to create multisensory meditations on biology, music, and mortality.

Her symbolic vocabulary often evokes sutures, scars, cellular structures, and anatomical form, which are visual metaphors that speak to both trauma and the human capacity for regeneration. Through these works, Goglia challenges viewers to perceive the interior body not merely as a subject of scientific scrutiny, but as a layered site of personal history, psychological depth, and poetic meaning.

Goglia’s art has been exhibited in academic institutions, medical centers, museums, and contemporary galleries. She continues to create interdisciplinary projects that dissolve the boundaries between empirical observation and metaphorical. A partial listing of Goglia's exhibitions include New York Academy of Sciences; New York Hall of Science; Yale Medical School Art Gallery, New Haven, Ct; The Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Ct; Esther Klein Art and Science Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.