Hilary Lorenz is a multi-disciplinary who splits her time between Brooklyn, NY, and Abiquiu, NM. Her practice revolves around the exploration and intersections of trail running, wilderness hiking, nature, and solitude. She creates artwork using printmaking, drawing, installation, and book arts. Lorenz lives and works part of the year in New Mexico, creating ambitious local and international projects that draw from her experience and infatuation with frontier living. Lorenz is currently a resident of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Governors Island Studio Program, New York. Her project investigates the environmental integrity of New York City waterways through drawing, print, and sculpture. Fall 2020, Lorenz will be in residence at the TIDES Institute and Museum in Eastport, Maine. In 2018 Lorenz backpacked the Klondike Gold Rush Trail from Alaska to British Columbia as the Chilkoot Trail Artist in Residence for the Yukon Art Center, Whitehorse, Canada. Her personal pilgrimage base artwork will be exhibited in 2021 at the Yukon Art Center. Lorenz’s exhibitions include the traveling exhibition of The Moth Migration Project, Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Bundaberg, Australia, Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie, Australia, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Australia, (2019), Flutter, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, (2017), Call and Response, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2017), Cross Pollination, Albuquerque, NM (2017), Birding, Brooklyn Bridge Park Commission, Brooklyn, NY (2016) Lean-to me, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY (2015), Nomadic Geography, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2014), In the Spirit, Pioneer Bluff Gallery, KS (2014), Mountain Journeys, Muriel Guépin Gallery, NY, NY (2011). Additional residencies and awards include LMCC, LMCC Process Space, Governors Island, NY (2016), National Seashore C-Scape Residency, Cape Cod, MA (2016 and 2008); ARTS Tasmania, Australia (2008); Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY (2006, 2007). Lorenz is a Fulbright Scholar and NEA Mid-Atlantic Fellow, her artwork has been reviewed in NY Times, LA Times, Art in America, and Art on Paper among others. She received her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in Printmaking and Intermedia and is a professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn.