Faculty

Lucia Cuba is a Peruvian designer, textile artist, and scholar, and Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice at Parsons School of Design, The New School.  

Her work positions fashion as a critical and political practice. Through an interdisciplinary approach bridging art, design, and the social sciences, she examines how clothing operates within broader systems of power, engaging questions of social justice, biopolitics, gender, health, and non-Western fashion systems. Her practice-based research spans textiles, wearable forms, installation, and participatory methodologies, with a focus on embodied experience, situated knowledge, and collective engagement.  

Cuba’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Museo Amparo (Puebla), Albuquerque Museum (New Mexico), OCT Art & Design Gallery (Shenzhen), BRIC Arts Media (New York), Fashion Space Gallery (London), Sur Gallery (Toronto), and ARTLIMA (Lima). Her work has been recognized with awards including the Han Nefkens Award in Fashion (2014), the United States Artists Fellowship in Design (2019), and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship (2022).  

She holds an MFA in Fashion Design and Society from The New School and a BSc in Social Psychology from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru), where she also pursued graduate studies in Educational Psychology and doctoral studies in Public Health. She is currently a PhD candidate in Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University.   More information: www.luciacuba.com