Hair Weave #2
2016
Jessica Lagunas
Bronx, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Jessica Lagunas
Jessica Lagunas is a Guatemalan artist based in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Everhart Museum (PA), Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC), International Festival of Contemporary Art-Women's City (Slovenia), Jersey City Museum (NJ), Bronx Museum (NY), among others; and in biennials such as those of Pontevedra (Spain), El Museo del Barrio (NY), Tirana (Albania), Cuenca (Ecuador), Caribe (Dominican Republic) and Paiz (Guatemala). Lagunas is a grantee of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2014) and the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Grantee (2016). She has received grants from the Urban Artist Initiative and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and has been awarded residencies in New York City from El Museo del Barrio, Wave Hill, the Center for Book Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island, and the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2018
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2014
Website / Social Links
Experimenting with unconventional paints - lipstick, nail polish and mascara - I question our obsession with body image and the canons of beauty by playing with women's beauty rituals, interpreting them in an exaggerated way.”
