As the daughter of prominent Venezuelan artist-parents, Lucia Pizzani
has been participating in performances and video works since childhood.
In her mid-twenties, while living in New York, she began to master and develop
her current practice, which today is an uninhibited and expressive approach
involving the body, photography, performance, and self.She is based between
NY and London, where she completed a Master in Fine Arts at the Chelsea
College of Arts in 2009.
Her Thesis “The body as a vessel” is a theoretical and studio
based research about the relation of the body with inner and outer spaces.
She spends a few months a year in Caracas, were she has had solo and group
exhibitions at major contemporary art spaces and museums. In 2006 she received
the 2nd National Young Award Salon FIA.
Recent Solo Exhibitions are: Vessel, Galería Fernando Zubillaga,
Centro de Arte Los Galpones Caracas (2009), and Retratos Ausentes HACS Miami
- La Carniceria Caracas (2007). Group shows include: Beyond Appearances,
Lehman College, NY (2009), MOLAA Collects Photo-Based Art, Museum Of Latin
American Art, L.A (2009), Reflect-Refract. Rich Gallery. London (2008),
III Queens Museum Biennale NY (2006), Identidades Galería El Museo,
Bogota, Colombia (2006), The Drop Exit Art, NY (2006); Boats, Islip Art
Museum New York, (2005), Naturalezas Abiertas Galeria de Arte Nacional,
Caracas (2003).