Lia Chavez is an internationally exhibited visual and performance artist who lives and works in New York City. Belonging to a young generation of photographers working in the studio naturally, without the use of digital manipulation, Chavez instead manipulates the physics of the camera to create "performed images" that investigate how light embodies relationships and delineates change. She draws upon a wide variety of influences ranging from Futurism and Baroque painting to Hubble Space Telescope deep field imagery, contemporary dance, and cosmology.