LUCIA PIZZANI

Lucía Pizzani was born in Caracas,Venezuela in 1975, and moved to London in 2007. Pizzani’s research-based practice, informed by her studies in conservation biology and her involvement in Venezuela’s environmental movement, is concerned with the intertwining narratives of natural and human histories. Pizzani’s expressive practice involves the body and self always informed by materiality. One of her core concerns is the interrelationship between narratives of women in history and processes of metamorphosis in the natural world. Pizzani works in a wide variety ofmedia, principally and originally with image based works such as photography and video, then expanding to sculpture, printmaking, drawing and performance.

Pizzani’s work is held in important UK and Latin American art collections, including Tate, the Colleción Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Fondation Thalie and the Essex Collection for Art from Latin America (ESCALA). In 2024, she was commissioned to produce an installation for the Harewood Biennial, UK. Other important exhibitions include the solo survey show Tiempo Membrana, Hacienda la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela, and the group exhibition PlanetB: Climate Change and the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bolani, Venice, Italy. In 2021, Pizzani completed a residency at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico and produced a permanent installation for the Puerto Escondido Botanical Garden, UMAR University of Oaxaca.