Shana Mabari is an American contemporary artist with a studio practice based in Los Angeles and Madrid, Spain. She has also lived and worked in Paris, Northern India, Tel Aviv, and Ibiza, experiences that inform her exploration of the intersections between art and science.

Central to Mabari’s work is her investigation of visual perception and physical space, expressed through sculptures, installations, and immersive environments. Her use of color, light, reflection, and geometric form aligns her practice with the Light and Space movement that originated in California in the 1960s.

Mabari’s engagement with the scientific community began in 2002 at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she collaborated with Dr. Shinsuke Shimojo, Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology, to design optical illusion environments. The pair was awarded a patent in 2004 for their Dynamic Spatial Illusions. Her ongoing collaborations include work with experts in vision sciences at Caltech and neurosciences at Zurich’s Institute of Neuroinformatics.

In 2018, Mabari was the first artist selected to fly aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which uses a 2.7-meter telescope mounted in a 747 to study phenomena like black holes and star formation.

Mabari’s work continues to bridge art and science, exploring how these disciplines shape our understanding of physical reality and the nature of perception.