Luanda Lozano
Luanda Lozano is an Angolan and Dominican printmaker and visual artist, who works with abstract and organic forms. Lozano is an Afro-Latina artist living in New York City.
Early life and education
Lozano was born in 1973, in Humpata, Angola, and grew up in San Francisco de Macoris in Duarte, Dominican Republic. She started painting at thirteen years old and made her first etched print at fifteen years old. She attended Altos de Chavón School of Design, an art school in the Dominican Republic. After earning a fine arts associate degree, Lozano continued her education at Parsons School of Design and received a B.F.A. degree in illustration.Work
In 1992, Lozano started to work in the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Her relationship with Robert Blackburn was a source of artistic inspiration for her career and work. By the late 1990s, she simultaneously worked with the Manhattan Graphics Center, and by 2010, she co-founded the print collective Dominican York Proyecto Grafica. She then dedicated her time to as an educator at the Bronx River Art Center and for over more than a decade has taught drawing and printmaking.Lozano's artwork includes themes from childhood and Caribbean and Afro-Latina cultures. She focuses on expressing personal experiences based on abstracted memory. Some of her works include religious iconography such as Catholic saints.
As a printmaker, Lozano approaches her work as a collage of techniques. Some of the most common techniques she uses in her prints range from etching, collography and drypoint techniques.
In 1998, Lozano was selected to represent the Dominican Republic at the XII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe. Recently awarded the 2023 Center for Contemporary Prints Binnie Birthstien Memorial Award and the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International Mid-Career Printmaker Award. Luanda was invited to be one of the panel members for the 2025 Emerging Printmaker Award also hosted by the Southern Graphics Council International.