Profile
Lucia Cuba is a Peruvian designer, textile artist, and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice, and the Donna Karan Director of the MFA Fashion Design and Society at Parsons.
Cuba approaches wearable forms as performative and political devices at the intersection of social justice, design and art. She has developed projects related to health, activism, and the study of non-Western fashion systems. She is the director of BASELAT, a database that aims to broaden the understanding of the field of fashion and textiles studies in Latin America, and Exercises on Health, a long-term research and art project that explores the connections between fashion, health and wellbeing.
Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally, 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 received the Han Nefkens Award in Fashion in 2014, the United States Artists Fellowship in Design in 2019, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship in 2022.
Cuba holds an MFA in Fashion Design and Society from The New School and a BSc in Social Psychology from Cayetano Heredia University in Peru where she also undertook MA studies in Educational Psychology and PhD studies in Public Health.
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Professional Affiliation
Female Design Council
Textile Society of the Americas
Art Mamas Alliance
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
Awards And Honors
2022 ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION - BELLAGIO CENTER RESIDENCY
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
Portfolio
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