Public engagement extends the studio practice into exhibitions, lectures, collaborations, and public dialogue. Through these activities, the work continues to explore how painting, light, time and rhythm shape human experience while fostering conversations across art, design, science, health, and architecture.

SELECT ARTICLES & MEDIA

Jefferson Research Magazine
When Art Brings Calm
Karuna Meda, Cover Story, April 2026 — Read

Jefferson University News
Regulating the Nervous System through Art
Marily Perkins, Jun 16, 2026 — Read

Innovator Magazine
The Light Fantastic
Spring 2023 — Read

Imagine a Place
A Life of Making Things
Feature Story by DesignVox + OFS, 2021 — Read, Watch:Part1, Watch:Part2,Watch:Part3

Philadelphia Inquirer
Lyn Godley’s Animated LED Art is One of the Must-Sees on Philly’s Gallery Circuit
Edith Newhall, Jan. 22, 2020.

CBS News Philadelphia
Jefferson Health’s Honickman Center is a Rarefied World of Sensory Sensitivity
Stephanie Stahl, June 2024 —Read

WHYY
How Jefferson Health’s Honickman Center Became a Blueprint for an Inclusive, Neurodiverse Environment
Nicole Leonard, April 2024 —Read

The Nexus
Finding Calm in Ocean Waves and Galaxies
Karuna Meda, March 2024 — Read

Innovator Magazine
The Light Fantastic
Spring 2023 — Read

Women Light Artists: Collected Light, Volume 1
Lyn Godley
Martin Lupton, and Sharon Stammers, January 2023

WHYY
Can Light-Based Art Improve Health? This Philly Exhibition Wants to Find Out
Peter Crimmins, November 2022 — Read

Technical.ly
Art, Technology, and Mental Health Connect in this Immersive Exhibition
Sarah Huffman, September 2022 — Read

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

Venice Biennale
Time Space Existence: Intersections – Health, Environment, and Design, European Cultural Center,
Venice, Italy, 2025

United Nations Headquarters
The Light Within, New York, NY, 2025

Miami Art Basel
Digital Art + Wellness Design, Miami, FL, 2024

InLiquid Gallery
Anamnesis, Philadelphia, PA, 2025

Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Converge, Philadelphia, PA, 2024

Liberty Museum
Philly’s Freedom: Artist Speak Out, Philadelphia, PA,2020

HOTBED/James Oliver Gallery
Lucent Shadows, Philadelphia, PA, 2019.

Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University
LIT, Wilkes, PA, 2019

Freyberger Gallery
Lyn Godley: Light and Art, Reading, PA, 2014

Gerald Ford Presidential Museum
Jelly Smack, Grand Rapids, MI, 2018

Pittsburgh’s Society for Contemporary Craft
Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art, Traveling Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016-2018

Gallery 68
In Flight, Cologne, Germany, 2011

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

Highpoint X Design, Highpoint
Immersive Art as a Sanctuary for Well-Being, NC, 2025

Center for Conscious Design
Conscious Cities Festival – Regrounding, Lima, Peru, 2025

Miami Art Basel
Digital Art + Wellness Design, Presented by ArtRepublic, Miami, FL, 2024

Visual Science of Arts Conference
Lyn Godley and Arts for Health, Documentary by Julia Ongchoco, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2024. Watch

NYU @ Prague
Lyn Godley and Immersive Arts for Health, Czech Republic, 2024

Light Symposium, KTH University
The Use of Immersive Light-Based Art for Wellbeing, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023

National Organization of Arts for Health National Conference
Immersive Art for Well-Being, Cleveland, Ohio, 2023.

TEDx Penn
Creating Awe/Lyn Godley, Philadelphia, PA, 2023. Watch

The DaVinci Science Center
Using Light to Fuse Design, Art, Science, and Health. Allentown, PA, 2022

New Fabric Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, and Park Town Place Galleries
Mixed Media Women Artists in Philadelphia - Ursula von Rydingsvard, Lyn Godley, and Gerri Spilka,
Philadelphia, PA, 2018

Koln International School of Design
My Cross-Disciplinary Relationship with Light Cologne, Germany, 2017

International Professional Lighting Design Conference
The Cross-Disciplinary Future of Lighting Design Education, Paris, France, 2016.

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COLLECTIONS – MUSEUMS

Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, New York, NY.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.

MUDE Design Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.

The Jewish Museum, Commission for Centennial Exhibit, New York, NY.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN