Carmen Lizardo was born in the Dominican Republic. She is a multidisciplinary artist combining experimental processes, printmaking, and drawing, using digital media, video, and non-silver photography as foundational tools. Her artwork explores themes of metamorphosis and hybridization. Through an autobiographical lens, she examines and acknowledges the histories and narratives of marginalized voices in societal discourses on belonging, with a particular focus on women of color.
Born
12061970
Nationality
Dominican
Country
United States
City
Kingston
Occupation
artist
Address
10 Hunter St
Kingston, NY
Kingston, NY
Interests
Alternative Photographic Processes
Languages
English
Spanish
Biography
Carmen Lizardo holds a BFA and an MFA from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York). She has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, En Foco, Arts Mid-Hudson, Women's Studio Workshop, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Lizardo has exhibited nationally and abroad at the Museum of the African Diaspora (Brooklyn, New York), The Dorsky Museum (New Paltz, New York), Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University (Alfred, New York), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, New York), BRIC (Brooklyn, New York), and ArtsBridge (Governors Island), and La Casa de Cultura Dominicana (La Romana, Dominican Republic), and Fundacion Para el Arte y La Cultura, Biblioteca Virgilio Barco (Bogotá, Colombia). Her work has been published in Gum Printing: Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, and Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York and has been featured in such media outlets as Hyperallergic. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to create a public artwork at the 181st Street Station in New York City. Lizardo is a former Department of Fine and Performing Arts professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Education
MFA Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY
Exhibitions
2023
Perhaps home is not a place Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta, LOVE, Atlanta, GA Oregon Center for Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Group
2023
LOVE
African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta, GA
Group
2023
To Swallow A River
Oregon Center for Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR
Solo
Prizes and Awards
2023 Metropolitan Transit Authority- commission award- 181 St, NYC
Testimonial
Quote
"Carmen Lizardo is a mixed media artist who uses alternative processes like gum printing, tintypes, and Kalitype printing which she then integrates with other elements like hair, paint, crystals, and gold leaf. Carmen’s work is not limited to historical processes; she also adopts other processes like screen printing and laser engraving and uses mediums like graphite or charcoal. All of these elements come together to tell intriguing stories about immigration, race, identity, gender, disabilities, politics, and history. Carmen’s imagery usually starts with a self-portrait that may be altered, but she might also use portraiture to alter a historical portrait as she does in the series Unidentified African American woman. The imagery is powerful because it does not let history or the past define Carmen Lizardo. She defines herself through her artwork.'' -Greg Banks Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily
Links
Favorite Quote
"It took me just a moment to draw this line. But it took me years of reflection to form the idea."
-Joan Miró
-Joan Miró