Lucia Pizzani

Born in 1975 in Caracas, Venezuela
Lives and works in London, UK

Lucia Pizzani’s practice is an expressive and mixed media approach involving the body, performance, and self that are translated into photography, video and sculpture. She deals with organic and environment enquiries, as she studied biology at the CERC center of Columbia University (NY), and uses it as a device to investigate and expose gender issues inspired in historical research.

She is based in London, where she completed a Master in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Arts in 2009. In 2013 she received the XII Eugenio Mendoza Award and the Emerging Artist Award by the Association of International Art Critics AICA Venezuelan-Chapter and in 2006 she received the 2nd National Young Award Salon FIA. Also this year she received a Special Mention at the “Region 0” Video Art Festival in NYC. Her work is included in important public and private collections such as the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) (USA-Venezuela), the Essex collection for Art from Latin America (ESCALA) (Essex, UK) and the MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles, USA) among others.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2014 – “The Worshipper of the Image”- Beers Contemporary. London, UK
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2014 – “El Adorador de la Imagen”- Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
2013 – “Mariposario”- Oficina#1. Centro de Arte Los Galpones. Caracas, Venezuela
2012 – “Orchis”- Fernando Zubillaga Galería. Centro de Arte Los Galpones. Caracas, Venezuela

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2014 – Pinta London, Solo Projects curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli & Catherine Petitgas. With Oficina#1. London, UK
2013 – Masquerade – Be Another. Stephen Lawrence Gallery. London, UK
2013 – XII Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza. Caracas, Venezuela
2011 – Friendship of the people – Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK
2008 – Photoshopping and More: MOLAA Collects Photo-Based Art. MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, USA
2006 – “Queens International 06: Everything all at once”, Queens Museum Biennale, New York, USA
2006 – I Bienal del Agua. Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela