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Ilana Halperin is an artist, originally from New York, based in Glasgow. Her work explores the relationship between geology and daily life. She combines fieldwork in diverse locations—on volcanoes in Hawaiʻi, caves in France, geothermal springs in Japan—and in museums, archives, and laboratories, with an active studio-based practice. Her work has featured in solo exhibitions worldwide including Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Artists Space in New York, and National Museum of Scotland. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Inaugural Artist Fellowship at National Museums Scotland and a British Council Darwin Now Award. She was Artist-Curator of Geology for Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. The Library of Earth Anatomy, a permanent commission at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, opened in 2017. Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana) toured a solo exhibition of new geothermal sculptures, which formed over a year between Japan and Scotland. Schering Stiftung in Berlin published a monograph of her work entitled New Landmass. Ilana shares her birthday with the Eldfell volcano in Iceland. Currently, she is exploring the karst landscapes of Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan for The Rock Cycle (Yamaguchi). Her project Minerals of New York opened at Leeds Arts University in 2019.