LUCÍA REISSIG

Lucía Reissig (Buenos Aires, 1994) is an Argentinian-Guatemalan sculptor based in New York City whose work examines how bodies and objects become repositories of memory through practices of care, domestic labor, informal economies, and food politics. Informed by feminist theory and strategies of abstraction, she creates sculptural works that blur the boundaries between intimacy, politics, and form.

Working across resin, fiberglass, paper, and cast metal, her recent practice centers on casting and repetition, both as method and metaphor, often returning to containers and vessels as carriers of memory. Her artistic practice also extends to the production of objects, installations, performative rituals and photographs. She is interested in blurring the technical and conceptual boundaries between politics, food, work and affections, combining these languages in her work, either collectively or in her studio practice.

She pursued her art studies at Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires. She participated in critiques with artist Ana Gallardo (2016) and continued her education at the Programa de Artistas at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2017/18). She later attended Escuela Incierta at Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia (2018), and received her MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, in 2024.

Since 2015, she has formed part of artist-run projects like Proyecto NUM (an editorial and curatorial archive on local feminist artistic expressions); Caterine Full Love (a mobile and dissident food project co-created with Nina Kovensky where different flavors are combined to give away food, understood as fuel, at mass mobilizations); Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito (specifically, its studio for children, the Comedor Gourmet, and other workshops); Servicio de limpieza integral (a collaborative research project with Bernardo Zabalaga on caring for spaces and sustaining life that connects domestic and energetic cleanliness). Her collaborative projects also span feminist archival publishing, queer food politics, community-based pedagogy, and the spiritual aspects of domestic labor. She also forms part of Planta Alta, a studio space for artists in Buenos Aires.

Solo shows: Glosarry, mimo, New York (2025), 287.5 kilos, Móvil, Buenos Aires (2023); El trabajo invisible, Selvanegra Galería, Buenos Aires (2018); Todo estaba sucio, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, (2022). 

Her work has been included in several group shows: Keeper, Indigo+Madder Gallery, London (2026); Políticas del Sabor, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2025–2026); Algunos oficios: Arte, Trabajo y Precariedad en Argentina, Museo de la Memoria, BienalSur, Buenos Aires (2025); LA INTERNACIONAL ARGENTINA II, The Slip, New York (2025); Premio Braque, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires (2025); Germantown Art and Design Week, Archipelago–Mendes Wood DM, Germantown, New York (2024); Un gesto podría cambiarlo todo, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires (2024); Punto de fuga. 10 años de Móvil, Móvil, Buenos Aires (2024); Off Site, Bard MFA thesis exhibition, Basilica Hudson (2024); Luz y Fuerza, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2023); Premio 8M, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2023); Las olas del deseo, Museo Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires (2022); Archives of the tympanum, Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2022); Colección comentada, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2022); Bombastik, Galería Nora Fisch, Buenos Aires (2021); Adentro no hay más que una morada, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2021); XXV Premio Klemm, Buenos Aires (2021); La colección escucha: voces del acervo, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2020); Negra, MUNAR, Buenos Aires (2019); Extraña posesión, Lugar a Dudas, Cali (2018).

She was awarded the Kenneth Kemble Fellowship for a Young Artist (2018), and the Premio en Obra at arteba along with Selvanegra Galería (2019), and, in 2025, the inaugural Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation Grant for Sculpture. In 2021, she published Pisos pegajosos (Sticky Floors) with Hambrehambrehambre, a publishing house based in Chile.

In 2026, she received an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has participated in residencies at Mass MoCA Studios, Millay Arts, and Acre.

Lucía Reissig lives in New York.