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Luanda Lozano
Born1973
Humpata, Angola
Education• Altos de Chavón School of Design (AAS) • Parsons School of Design (BFA)
Known forVisual Artist/Printmaker
Board member of• Council Member - The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) • Board member - Manhattan Graphics Center
Awards• Mid-Career Printmaker Award. • Binnie Birstein Memorial Award. • The Instant of the Creation. • Medal of Honor, 12th International Biennial.
Websitehttps://luandalozano.com/

Luanda Lozano (born 1973) is a Dominican printmaker who works with abstract and organic forms.[1]

Early life and education

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Lozano was born in Humpata, Angola in 1973 and grew up in San Francisco de Macoris.[2] She started painting at thirteen years old and made her first etched print at fifteen years old.[1][3] She attended Altos de Chavon, an art school in the Dominican Republic.[4] After earning a fine arts associate degree, Lozano continued her education at Parsons School of Design and received her B.F.A. in illustration (1994).[1] Lozano is an Afro-Latina currently New York-based artist.[1]

Work

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In 1992, Lozano started to work in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.[1] Her relationship with Robert Blackburn was a source of artistic inspiration for her career and work.[4] 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.[4][2] 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.[3]

Lozano's work includes themes from childhood and Caribbean and Afro-Latina cultures.[3] She focuses on expressing personal experiences based on abstracted memory.[5] Some of her works include religious iconography such as Catholic saints.[6]

As a printmaker, Lozano approaches her work as a collage of techniques.[3] Some of the most common techniques she uses in her prints range from etching, collography and drypoint techniques.[3]

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.[2] Recently awarded the 2023 Center for Contemporary Prints Binnie Birthstien Memorial Award and the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Mid-Career Printmaker Award.[5][7] Luanda was invited to be one of the panel members for the 2025 Emerging Printmaker Award also hosted by the Southern Graphics Council International.[7]

Collections

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Luanda's artistic work has been included in public collections such as Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (Portfolio Manifestaciones, Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica); Museo Nacional del Grabado, Argentina; Varna Museum, Bulgaria; Chamalière Museum, Auvergne, France; MontClair Museum (PMW Portfolio 2000) New Jersey; Library of Congress (Robert Blackburn print collection), Washington D.C.; Dunn Development, Corp., Brooklyn, New York; Tellus Art, Sweden; Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan; Florean Museum and InterArt Foundation, Romania; CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (Portfolio Manifestaciones, Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica); Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey; Mexic-Arte museum (Portfolio La Huella Magistral, Consejo Gráfico); Blanton Museum (Portfolio La Huella Magistral, Consejo Gráfico); Brandywine Workshop & Archives, Philadelphia, PA (Portfolio Manifestaciones, Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (DYPG Portfolios Manifestaciones, Community, Uptown Print Project and Here & There); Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME and Kathy Caraccio Fine Art Print Collection.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e 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 22 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Luanda Lozano | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  3. ^ a b c d e College, Bard. "Bard College | La Voz | Article | Luanda Lozano, artista plástica y grabadista dominicana". lavoz.bard.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  4. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Lozano, Luanda. "Luanda Lozano". Luanda Lozano. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  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. ^ a b "SGC International Award past recipients | SGC International". www.sgcinternational.org. Retrieved 2025-03-04.

Further reading

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  • Reinoza, Tatiana (2018). The Island Within the Island; Remapping Dominican York. The University of Chicago Press Journal. Retrieved 22 February 2025.  
  • Ros, Moses, (1958), et al. PRINT: Graphic Show by Dominican York Proyecto Grafica. Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, 2012. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Dominican Artists in the United States. The City College of New York, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.37769454. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
  • Ros, Moses (1958). DYPG Five Years/Ten Voices. Abrazo Interno Gallery, 2015. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Dominican Artists in the United States. The City College of New York, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.37769471. Accessed 23 February 2025.
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