Luciana Pinchiero

Born in Argentina, Luciana Pinchiero received her MFA from Parsons The New School (NYC), and her BFA from Otis College of Arts and Design, (Los Angeles). Her work has been shown in museums, art spaces and galleries in New York City, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, France and Iceland. She is the recipient of the LungA School Residency Fellowship in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and she has recently participated in the 38th cycle of the Artist in the Marketplace program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Luciana lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

She works predominantly with collage, photography, moving images, and objects. She is interested in the concept of postcolonial ‘herstory’ as she observes and de-construct the recorded history and its fixed patterns. Pinchiero´s latest projects involve the manipulation of (rarely) disputed dominant history, as she challenges the idea of traditional Western representation of historically acclaimed male figures.

Luciana is excited and proud to be part of a generation of Latin Americans that can potentially overturn an imposed worldview into an embarrassing sense of displaced identity. The efforts to tear down and/or re-locate emblematic monuments that celebrate colonialism and white male supremacy around the world are the kind of events that have motivated me to make art in the last few years. The artists it is not interested in reproducing these events, but in creating situations that encourage the viewer to reconsider how objects that are typically seen as harmless – like a neoclassical statue of a naked female body, or the public representation of a brave man facing the sky and riding a horse, can be detrimental to the ways in which we relate to class, race and gender.