2025 Digital Exhibition

The Princeton University Art of Science exhibition, which in 2025 celebrates its 10th exhibition and 20th year, explores the symbiosis of two fields that are essential expressions of human creativity.

Powerful scientific modeling and imaging tools capture our world in novel ways and produce striking visual artifacts, either by intention or serendipity. When considered through the lens of art, these works expand our understanding of the human experience, enhance and complicate our relationship to the natural world, and redefine what we consider art and whom we think of as artists.

The works in this year’s Art of Science exhibition include 41 still images, videos and animations from 79 creators—including students, alumni, staff, researchers and faculty from across the Princeton University community. Employing an array of analog, digital and computer-generated methods, they take breathtaking leaps in physical scale, from microns to light years.

Most importantly, they demonstrate how science-generated and science-inspired artworks do more than simply communicate methods and discoveries. They remind us of how restless, idiosyncratic and imperfectly human the scientific imagination can be, and reveal both the possibilities and limits of science’s determined reach into the unknown.