Jessica Lagunas
Artist in Residence
January 2025

Jessica Lagunas is a New York City-based Latinx artist. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museo Amparo, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (CA); the Everhart Museum (PA), the Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, D.C.), the International Festival of Contemporary Arts–City of Women (Slovenia), the Jersey City Museum (NJ), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), among others; and in biennials including Pontevedra (Spain), El Museo del Barrio (NY), Tirana (Albania), Cuenca (Ecuador), Caribbean (Dominican Republic) and Paiz (Guatemala); as well as in cities in the United States, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

Lagunas has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Bronx Council on the Arts, City Artist Corps; and residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace and as their On-Site Assistant, Bronx Museum’s AIM Residency and Program, El Museo del Barrio, Wave Hill, The Center for Book Arts, LMCC’s Governors Island, Joan Mitchell Center, and currently at Lost and Found Lab in Connecticut.

Her work has been featured in the publications Madam & Eve (London: Laurence King Publishing), and Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women (San Francisco: New World Library).

Lagunas’s work is in the collection of The Bronx Museum.

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