LUCIA PIZZANI

 Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1975, Lucía Pizzani has lived and worked in London since 2007. Her research-based, expressive practice—rooted in her studies in conservation biology and activism within Venezuela’s environmental movement—explores the intertwined narratives of natural and human histories.

Sunlight produces her photographic images; fire and earth shape her ceramics; and between these processes lies the botanical world, a vast laboratory of forms. Materiality, the body, and the self are at the core of her work, with a particular interest on the relationship between women’s histories and metamorphosis in the natural world.

Working across photography, ceramics, video, drawing, performance, and installation, her work is held in significant public and private collections, including Tate (UK), Magasin III Museum of Contemporary Art (Sweden), Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), Catherine Petitgas Collection, Archivo Fotografía Urbana, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Colección Juan Yarur, and the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), among others.

In 2024, she was a featured artist in the Smoke section at Frieze London and was commissioned to create a major installation for the Harewood Biennial in the UK. Other notable exhibitions include her solo survey Tiempo Membrana at Hacienda La Trinidad (Caracas, Venezuela) and the group exhibition Planet B: Climate Change and the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Palazzo Bolani (Venice, Italy).

Pizzani has also completed residencies at Fundación Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido, Mexico) and produced a permanent installation for the Puerto Escondido Botanical Garden at UMAR University of Oaxaca (Mexico) in 2021.