About Libby Heaney

Dr. Libby Heaney is an award winning artist with a professional background in Quantum Science. She is the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Heaney’s practice explores quantum concepts and temporalities, combining diverse media such as moving image, glass and watercolour painting with cutting-edge technologies. In doing so she seeks to entangle interior landscapes with the impact of the exterior realm. Heaney’s work explores philosophical questions about the nature of reality while remaining intimate and embodied. Recent solo exhibitions include Quantum Soup, HEK, Basel (2024); Heartbreak and Magic, Somerset House, London (2024) and Ent-, LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2022). In September 2024 she unveiled her debut public sculpture, Ent- (non-earthly delights), as part of Frieze Sculpture 2024. In 2022 Heaney’s project Ent- won the Lumen Prize and the Falling Walls Art-Science Prize. Heaney has been the recipient of numerous Arts Council England grants and her work is in major private collections including the Zabludowicz Collection and 0xCollection. She holds a PhD in Quantum Information Science and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in quantum science at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore.