“Using speculative, world-building approaches to question who we are, how we relate to our bodies, and where we may be headed.”
Artist Lucy McRae leads a multidisciplinary art-research studio investigating the impact of technology and science on the planet and the natural world. Alongside her gallery- and museum-focused art practice, she works as a director and maker and moves fluidly between the writer’s room and the lab.
McRae pioneers new narratives about how future technologies may transform human intimacy, reproduction, biology, and health, while foregrounding the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Through speculative, world-building approaches, her work uses hypothesis as a tool to question who we are, how we relate to our bodies, and where we may be headed.
Based in Los Angeles, McRae is a visiting professor at architecture school SCI_Arc, a TED fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She also works as a world-builder and futurist consultant on Hollywood productions with multiple Oscar-winning directors and producers.
