View interview video of Harriet Casdin-Silver, shot at Gallery NAGA in 2007

The international doyenne of holography, Harriet Casdin-Silver is widely acknowledged as the most important artist in the history of the medium. Since 1968, she has been a pioneer figure, working at labs in university and corporate settings in the United States, Belgium, England, Germany and Russia, and in her Boston studio. She has developed technical skills and aesthetic applications unparalleled in the field. The focus of Casdin-Silver's work is the human form as a site of psychological, sexual, and spiritual energy.

In recent years she has focused on commissioned holographic portraits. Her most recent work is a series of large and very large scale digital print portraits - female nudes presenting art historians, athletic young women, and the artist herself at 81. The works glory in the physical forms of their female subjects, in the ability of their bodies to express spirit, and in the varieties of color and mood Casdin-Silver derives from her studio setting and her Fort Pont neighborhood looming through her windows.

Among other venues in over 12 countries, Casdin-Silver's work has been the subject of three solo exhibitions at the Museum of Holography in New York and included in Boston (in dialogue) Now at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In 1998, forty years' work was presented in a major retrospective at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts. In 2005 the Bates Museum of Art presented The Body Holographic: Harriet Casdin-Silver.