Lucía Pizzani Venezuelan, b. 1975

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. In particular, at the core of her work is a focus on the interrelationship between stories of women in history and literature, and processes of metamorphosis in the natural world. Pizzani works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing and performance. She has worked with ceramics for over 15 years, and this is the focus of her most recent exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects, as she continues to prioritise natural materials and trace their origins and migrations in her art.

Pizzani’s work is held in important UK and Latin American art collections, including Tate, the Colleción Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 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.

Pizzani’s first monograph will be published in Autumn 2024, edited by Natalia Valencia Arango and with contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Lisa Le Feuvre, Lucia Pietroiusti and Jesús Torrivilla.

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Video: Lucía Pizzani in conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti (Head of Ecologies, Serpentine)