# Luanda Lozano

Luanda Lozano (born 1973) is a Dominican printmaker who works with abstract and organic forms.

## Early life and Education

Lozano was born in Humpata, Angola in 1973 and grew up in San Francisco de Macoris.Luanda started painting at thirteen years old and made her first etched print at fifteen years old.She attended Altos de Chavon, an art school in the Dominican Republic.After receiving a fine arts associate degree, Luanda continued her education at Parsons School of Design and received her B.F.A. in illustration (1994). Luanda Lozano is an Afro-Latina currently New York-based artist.

## Work

In 1992, Luanda 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 her later works.By the late 1990s, she simultaneously worked with the Manhattan Graphics Center, and by 2010, she joined Dominican York Proyecto Grafica. She then dedicated her time to an educator at the Bronx River Art Center and for over more than a decade has taught drawing and printmaking.

## Themes

Lozano's work 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.

## Materials

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.

## Art
### Prints

* Salvame Santo (2010). Print created at Manhattan Graphics Center and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Apart from Lozano’s collection “Manifestaciones” which is a part of her work with the Dominican York Proyecto Grafica (DYPG)12” x 15” chine collé and etching on BFK Paper. This prints blue and green color are reminiscent of the Caribbean Oceans color.
* Printed for Collection “Here & There” work with the Dominican York Proyecto Grafica (DYPG). 7” x 7”. SilkAquatint.
* La Musa de Blackburn: Homage to Master Printmakers (2017) 22" x 15". Etching, stencil printed on kozuke ivory paper and chine collé. This print belongs in the Consejo Grafico portfolio la Huella Magistral: Homage to Master Printmakers.
* Figuras Fragmentadas por el Tiempo (1997) 40" x 25" Collograph, etching, and chine collé.
* Caliés. 22" x 30" Digital Print on BFK paper.

## Accomplishments and Awards

In 1998, Luanda Lozano was picked to represent the Dominican Republic at the XII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe.She recently received the 2023 Center for Contemporary Prints Binnie Birthstien Memorial Award and the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) 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.

## Collections

Luanda's artistic work has been included in public collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Muesum, Kanagawa Museum Print Collection, and Florean Muesum. Other notable collections include the National Muesum of Printmaking located in Argentina and the Library of the American Congress in New Jersey.