lucia pizzani

Bio & Statement

Lucia Pizzani (Caracas, 1975).

She holds a BA in Communications Studies, (Universidad Católica Andres Bello, Caracas), Certificate in Conservation Biology from CERC at Columbia University (New York) and Master in Fine Arts from the Chelsea College of Art and Design (London).

Her work is part of the TATE Collection, the UK Government Art Collection, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art (Stockholm), Essex Collection for Art from Latin America ESCALA, and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) amongst others.

Recent exhibitions, residencies and commissions include Klima Biennale Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna (2026), Amazon Biennial, Belem (2025) SEEDS for the Infinite Ecology Marathon at Serpentine Gallery (2024); the LatinX takeover at the V&A East (2024); El Cercado Ceramic school (Isla de Margarita, Venezuela) and the Smoke curated section at Frieze London (2024); Healing flows, a public commission for the West Middlesex Hospital in Twickenham with CW+ (2024-2025); Cultivo y Memoria, a commissioned piece for the Harewood Biennial in Leeds (2024); Planet B: Climate Change and the New Sublime (2022), curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Palazzo Bolanni (Venice); Peckham24 (London, 2022); Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2023); TEA Museum (Tenerife, 2022-2023); Casa Wabi and the Puerto Escondido Botanical Garden (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2021), LaunchPad Lab (Charente, France, 2020); Hacienda La Trinidad Art Centre (Caracas, 2022) and Photofusion (London, 2017)

Her first institutional show in the UK that opened at Focal Point Gallery in March 2026 and is touring, it was presented at KARTS Gallery in Plymouth this summer and will go to Mostyn in Wales in March 2027. In 2024 her first monograph was published with commissioned texts from Lucia Pietroiusti, Nicolas Bourriaud and Torrivilla and an in depth interview with Lisa Le Feuvre. The book is bilingual and was edited by Natalia Valencia Arango and published by This Side Up.  

Other recent solo shows include: Guardianas y Serpientes at Galeria Marilia Razuk (Sao Paulo, 2026), Trópico Pasado at Galleria Doris Ghetta (Ortisei, Italy, 2025) Photo London with Victoria Law Projects (London, 2025); Clay, Seeds and Other Ancestors with Apsara Studios and Frieze Studios at No. 9 Cork Street (London, 2025); Morada Vegetal at ABRA (Caracas, 2024); Rites, Seeds and Refuge at Cecilia Brunson Projects for London Gallery Weekend (London, 2024); MERUNTÖ: in the house of spirits at Bosse & Baum (London, 2023); and Tiempo Membrana at Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural (Caracas. 2022)

She has been featured in AttForum, FT Magazine, Studio International, BBC News, Vogue, Monopol Magazine, Loose Associations (TPG), Hotshoe, Artishock Magazine and ArtNexus amongst other media.
Guest lectures and talks include: Leeds University, Studio Voltaire, Sothebys MFA and Latin American House in the UK and Fundación Cisneros and Instituto Armando Reverón in Venezuela.

Her work is on these recent surveys of Venezuelan art: “Arte Contemporaneo en Venezuela” Villanueva Editores, “Panorama, Arte Emergente en Venezuela” published by Telefónica Foundation and “Nuevo País de las Artes“ edited by Banesco. Shel is also part of “Remains – Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction” edited by curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.
 
Recent awards and bursaries include: Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (2017) for "Broader Implications" at Photofusion, Photofusion Hotshoe Award 14, (London, 2014) the Emerging Artist Award by the AICA, International Art Critics Association -Venezuelan chapter-, (Caracas, 2013), and the XII Premio Eugenio Mendoza (Caracas, 2013) with a following Residency at Hangar (Barcelona).

“Lucia 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. She works across a variety of media - including photography, ceramics, videos, drawings, performances and installations. Having worked as part of the environmental movement in Venezuela for many years, she has always incorporated ecological elements into her artwork. 

Pizzani’s physical environment often provides her with both the inspiration, and physical materials, for her work. This has had a particular importance during recent artists in residencies she has done abroad. The travelling and sense of missplaced has been part of her life since an early age, while she bounced between Europe, North America and her home country. In the last years, from her London studio she combines materials and stories from different territories trying to reconciliate that distance. Her research and production is often hybrid, syncretic and with no defined temporality, allowing the works to have multi layered readings.”