Faculty

Profile

Lucia Cuba’s work approaches fashion, textiles, design and the exploration of garments and other wearable forms as performative and political devices, broadening the understanding of the role of design objects from purely functional, commercial or aesthetic considerations, to social, ethical and political perspectives. As a fashion designer and scholar, Cuba is interested in issues of gender, biopolitics, health and global fashion practices. She has developed projects concerned with health, activism, education and the study of non-western fashion systems.

Cuba received an MFA in Fashion Design & Society from Parsons, The New School University (USA) and a BSc in Social Psychology from Cayetano Heredia University (Peru), where she also undertook MA studies in Educational Psychology and PhD studies in Public Health. Her work has been exhibited at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Museo Amparo (Puebla), Albuquerque Museum (NM), OCT Art & Design Gallery (Shenzhen), BRIC Arts Media (New York), Fashion Space Gallery (London), Sur Gallery (Toronto), ARTLIMA (Lima), among other cultural venues.   She currently works as Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons, The New School University (NY) and as an independent designer.

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Performances and Appearances

 

CENTRO CULTURAL RICARDO PALMA/MEMORIA ESCINDIDA: ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA POSTMODERNIDAD EN RUINAS / Sep 11- Oct 27/2019. Lima

KELLEN GALLERY | PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN/ IN THE HISTORICAL PRESENT/ Jul 8- Oct 6 /2019. NY

SUR GALLERY. POWER IN RESISTANCE/ May 2- Jun 29/ 2019. Toronto 

ART LIMA / ESPACIO DISEÑO/ Apr 3-7, 2019. Lima

FASHION SPACE GALLERY/MUNDO LATINX/ Feb 4- May 4, 2019. London  

IBEROAMERICAN BIENNIAL OF DESIGN/ SPANISH CULTURAL CENTER- Lima/ Retrospective / Jun 13- Jul 15, 2018. Lima

CUBE NY / TIMES ART MUSEUM/ Wavelength/ Aug 3-15, 2017. Beijing    

BRIC ARTS MEDIA/ Material Cultures/ Sep 7- Oct 23, 2016. NY

UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL PERU/ Hecho en Perú /Aug 25 – Sep 7, 2016. Lima

AMPARO MUSEUM/ New Territories: Laboratories for Art, Craft and Design in Latin America / Jun 25 – Sep 26, 2016. Puebla 

MUSEO MATARÓ/ Dress and undress the bodies. Jul 15 – Dec 18, 2016. Mataró

OCT ART & DESIGN GALLERY / The Future of Fashion is Now /Mar 27- Jul 31. Shenzhen  

ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM/ New Territories/ Jan 9, 2015–Apr 17

CENTRE D’ ART LA PANERA/ Dress and undress the bodies: phenomenology of the apparition/ Oct 20, 2015 – Jan 24, 2016. Lleida  

MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN/ The Future of Fashion is Now / Oct 11 - Jan 18, 2015. Rotterdam

MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (MAD)/ New Territories: Laboratories for Art, Craft and Design in Latin America/ Nov 4 - Apr 6, 2015. NY  

THE INVISIBLE DOG ARTS CENTER/ Textile Arts Center Artist in Residence Cycle 4 Exhibition / Sep 17 – 22. NY

III IBEROAMERICAN BIENNIAL OF DESIGN/ Nov 26, 2012 – Feb 18, 2013. Madrid  

THE FIRST 18/ MFA Fashion Design and Society Exhibition/ May 14 - 23, 2012. NY  

RAFIA/ Alliance Françoise/ Rafia- Project Gamarra /Oct 5 – Nov 15, 2011. Lima  

II IBEROAMERICAN BIENNIAL OF DESIGN/ Nov 25, 2010 – Feb 15, 2011. Madrid  

 

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Awards And Honors

 

2019  UNITED STATES ARTISTS - FELLOW IN DESIGN. United States Artist. Chicago   

2017  TOP 5 LATIN AMERICAN ARTIST ACTIVISTS, Americas Quarterly. Americas Society   

2014  HAN NEFKENS AWARD IN FASHION. Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona  

2012 ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP. Textile Arts Center (TAC), NY  

2011 WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST SCHOLARSHIP. Parsons The New School for Design, NY  

2010-2012  FULBRIGHT INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP. International Institute of Education, Lima/NY  

2012 IBERO-AMERICAN DESIGN BIENNALE AWARDS. Fashion Design Award: “Articulo 6”. Design & Development Honorable Mention: “Articulo 6”, Madrid  

 

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Portfolio

Articulo 6

Proyecto Gamarra

Procesos Peruanos

Base Lat

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Current Courses

Integrative Studio 2

Major Studio 3

Sustainable Systems: Practices

Thesis 2 (Spring 2020)