Libby Heaney

Dr Libby Heaney is an artist and quantum scientist, recognised as the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Spanning both the personal and the universal, her practice draws on the shapeshifting, non-binary concepts and non-linear temporalities of quantum physics, exploring resistance to human-centred futures and combining diverse media — from installation, performance and virtual reality to video games, watercolour and glass.

Heaney engages interdisciplinarily with the promises and underlying power structures of emerging technologies. Her work challenges technologies to work against themselves in order to reveal their limitations and risks.

Heaney’s solo exhibition Ent- (commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and presented at Schering Stiftung Berlin in 2022) kicked off LAS’s engagement with quantum technologies. Other recent presentations include Shadowscapes at Orleans House Gallery, London (2025); Qlimate Tongues at ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2025); Quantum Soup at HEK, Basel (2024); Heartbreak & Magic at Somerset House, London (2024); Frieze Sculpture, London (2024); RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2021); and the Lowry, Manchester (2017).