Lyndsey Walsh (they/their) is an American artist, designer, writer/editor, and lecturer based in Berlin, Germany. Lyndsey’s work explores the instability surrounding the cultural and social aspects of disease, identity, the body, death, human and non-human relationships, and speculative narratives on the future. Currently, Lyndsey is a visiting scholar and the resident artist at the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in collaboration with the UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence. Lyndsey has a BA in Individualized Studies with Honors from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and a minor in Environmental Biology. Lyndsey’s BA’s concentration was entitled “The Creativity of the Universe” with a colloquium that explored how forces in the universe such as gravity, natural selection, etc. could be analyzed through artistic critique and theory, and a Senior Thesis entitled “Heads Will Roll: Cranial Mapping Systems”, which explored artistic analysis and research of Cetacean’s cranial structures (dolphins, whales, porpoises) featuring a residency with Dr. Joy Reidenberg, a leading global expert on Cetacean anatomy and morphology, at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. Lyndsey also has a Masters of Biological Arts (MSc.) with Distinction from SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia with a thesis entitled “Generating Monsters: The Materiality and Aesthetics of Stem Cell Potential”. Besides being a guest-lecturer at various institutions and universities, Lyndsey is also a contributing writer for CLOT magazine.
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