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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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
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