Luanda Lozano

Luanda Lozano
Born1973 (age 52–53)
Humpata, Angola
EducationAltos de Chavón School of Design (AAS)
Parsons School of Design (BFA)
Known forVisual artist, printmaker
Awards12th International Biennial (Medal of Honor)
Websiteluandalozano.com

Luanda Lozano (born 1973) is an Angolan and Dominican printmaker and visual artist, who works with abstract and organic forms. Lozano is an Afro-Latina artist living in New York City.

Early life and education

Lozano was born in 1973, in Humpata, Angola, and grew up in San Francisco de Macoris in Duarte, Dominican Republic. She started painting at thirteen years old and made her first etched print at fifteen years old. She attended Altos de Chavón School of Design, an art school in the Dominican Republic. After earning a fine arts associate degree, Lozano continued her education at Parsons School of Design and received a B.F.A. degree in illustration (1994).

Work

In 1992, Lozano started to work in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Her relationship with Robert Blackburn was a source of artistic inspiration for her career and work. By the late 1990s, she simultaneously worked with the Manhattan Graphics Center, and by 2010, she co-founded the print collective Dominican York Proyecto Grafica. She then dedicated her time to as an educator at the Bronx River Art Center and for over more than a decade has taught drawing and printmaking.

Lozano's artwork includes themes from childhood and Caribbean and Afro-Latina cultures. She focuses on expressing personal experiences based on abstracted memory. Some of her works include religious iconography such as Catholic saints.

As a printmaker, Lozano approaches her work as a collage of techniques. Some of the most common techniques she uses in her prints range from etching, collography and drypoint techniques.

Master printer Robert Blackburn and Luanda Lozano at the Printmaking Workshop (PMW). Year: 2000.

In 1998, Lozano was selected to represent the Dominican Republic at the XII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe. Recently awarded the 2023 Center for Contemporary Prints Binnie Birthstien Memorial Award and the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Mid-Career Printmaker Award. Luanda was invited to be one of the panel members for the 2025 Emerging Printmaker Award also hosted by the Southern Graphics Council International.

Collections

Luanda's artistic work has been included in public collections, such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; the Museo Nacional del Grabado, Argentina;[citation needed]Varna Museum, Bulgaria;[citation needed] Chamalière Museum, Auvergne, France;[citation needed] Montclair Museum (PMW Portfolio 2000) New Jersey;[citation needed] Library of Congress (Robert Blackburn print collection), Washington D.C.;[citation needed] Tellus Art, Sweden;[citation needed] Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan;[citation needed] Florean Museum and InterArt Foundation, Romania;[citation needed] CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York;[citation needed] Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey;[citation needed] Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas;[citation needed] Blanton Museum;[citation needed] Brandywine Workshop & Archives, Philadelphia, PA; [citation needed]Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME;[citation needed] and Kathy Caraccio Fine Art Print Collection.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Greenhill Hannum, Gillium (May 24, 2016). "Print Club Annual Meeting and Artist's Showcase, Society of Illustrators, Tuesday, May 24, 2016" (PDF). The Print Club of New York, Inc. pp. 4–5. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Luanda Lozano | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 College, Bard. "Bard College | La Voz | Article | Luanda Lozano, artista plástica y grabadista dominicana". lavoz.bard.edu. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Reinoza, Tatiana (April 18, 2023). Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory. Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 50–80. ISBN 9781477326909.
  5. 1 2 Lozano, Luanda. "Luanda Lozano". Luanda Lozano. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  6. ↑ Rodriguez, Yelaine, 1990-, and Tatiana Reinoza (curator). All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art. Brandywine Workshop and Archives, 2022. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Dominican Artists in the United States. The City College of New York, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.36395639. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
  7. 1 2 "SGC International Award past recipients | SGC International". www.sgcinternational.org. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Luanda Lozano". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Luanda Lozano - Yo soy, Yo estoy". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved January 15, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Memories of my Childhood". Hood Museum. Retrieved January 15, 2026.

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