Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cockroaches scuttled around a cubed vivarium.

From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm has historically provided a significant resource for artists. More recently, bio art has become a ...

SVA’s Bio Art Laboratory is a center where biological scientific techniques and materials are used as a medium for artmaking. The lab is equipped with microscopes for photography and video, a BioBots ...

In a recent project I was involved in, I was requested to provide a longer and more detailed artist bio. This is not the first time that I got such a request: the bios I provide are usually rather ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

The author uses succinctly written biographies and gouache on paper paintings to recover the obscure lives of women who dressed or otherwise presented themselves as men.