Lucia Hierro

Lucia Hierro is a Bronx-based Dominican-American conceptual artist born and raised in New York's Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods. She received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2010 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. She has exhibited in shows at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling and Paris Photo. She recently had her first New York City solo show at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in Harlem and her first Dominican Republic solo show at Casa Quien Gallery in Santo Domingo. Residencies include: Yaddo, Redbull Arts in Detroit, Fountainhead Residency, Bronx Museums Artist in the Market program and Casa Quien. Her work is part of the JP Morgan Chase art collection and the Rennie collection in Vancouver.

Hierro's work explores the body as a collection of fragmented signifiers that include language, taste and culture. Hierro addresses these ideas across a broad platform of techniques that include digital media, collage and felt constructions.