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My Story

As an artist, I paint abstract and surrealist explorations of the relationship between data, artificial intelligence, and society. Before focusing on art, I studied both statistics and sociology at Columbia University and later began my career as an AI engineer and thought leader at IBM and later at NASA. 

I have always believed data was a force with the ability to heal the ills of the world, which led me to create world class models, create innovative solutions to important problems, and speak to audiences across the world on data and ethics-related matters. You can learn more about my AI and data-related practice here

My artistic practice emerged from a desire to move beyond modeling systems to interrogating them. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas, I create two interconnected bodies of work: abstract compositions that visually translate datasets into form, rhythm, and color; and surrealist paintings that examine the contemporary AI landscape and technology’s expanding influence on identity, labor, spirituality and consciousness, and power.

Drawing on my dual training in quantitative analysis and social theory, my work occupies the tension between structure and disruption, prediction and uncertainty, human agency, spirituality, and algorithmic control. By transforming statistical logic into visual language, I invite viewers to reconsider the systems that increasingly shape collective and personal experience.

©2026 Lydia Laval

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