Lia Zuvilivia
Lia Zuvilivia paintings, glass sculptures, and interventions stem from an impulse to meet the immaterial and impermanent with materials.
Message
Lia Zuvilivia is a multimedia artist from Argentina whose practice consists of paintings, glass sculptures, and window interventions driven by an impulse to explore the immaterial with materials. Evoking a sense of mystery and beauty, her works are inviting to contemplate that which cannot be seen with the eyes.
Born in Argentina in 1968 she holds an MFA from the University of Visual Art of Buenos Aires. She has had exhibits in solo and group shows nationally and internationally among them the San Martin Cultural Center of Buenos Aires and Artere in Paris, selected in the Emerging Young Artists at Recoleta Cultural Center of Buenos Aires and Open-Call at Bric House of Brooklyn, New York.
In 2021 she received a Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was invited to The Pouch Residency in Canada in 2023.
GRANTS
2021 CITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
RESIDENCIES
The Pouch Cove Foundation 2023, Newfoundland, Canada.
Painting retreat at The Tower 2022, Bagnolet, France.
SELECTED WORKS
2015 Open (C)All: The Artist's Studio at BRIC, Brooklyn, New York.
2009 Windows Brooklyn 2009, Brooklyn, New York.
1994 III Biennale of Young Art, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
GROUP EXHIBITS
2023 Seeing Unseen, with Karina Cavat at hetLabo Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Intersect 3, Old Court House Art Center, Woodstock, Illinois.
First Summer Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
Dissilience Brooklyn, RabbitHole, Brooklyn, New York.
Render: Responding to Glass, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York.
2015 Open (C)all: The Artist's Studio, BRIC, NY, New York.
2014 21&Counting at The Painting Center, NY, New York.
2012 Solo Exhibition at Active Space, Brooklyn, New York.
2011 Is All Good, Sideshow Gallery’s Annual Art Yearbook, New York.
2010 Collective Artist Book, Las Gaviotas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Immigrant Women United In Art, Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano, NY, New York.
2009 Artist book, Encuentro de las Artes, Mar de las Pampas, Argentina.
On the Universe, intervention at Dharma, for Windows Brooklyn 2009, Brooklyn, New York.
SidewalkInstallation IV, with Facundo Newbery, Brooklyn, New York.
2008 Art Privat, preview of art-privat, at Baya, Berlin, Germany.
Sidewalk Installation III, featuring Sarah Keough, Dave Olsen, and Justin Graham, Brooklyn, New York.
Live-Work, Fame Game Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York.
Sidewalk Installation | 40o42 44n 073o57 48w, with Facundo Newbery, Brooklyn, New York.
2005 The Unseen Scene, Hogar Collection, Williamsburg, New York. Press release.
Subörb -Street Art & Contemporary Circus Festival, keyword zingofilm, Stockholm, Sweden.
2003 Me, myself and I, with Facundo Newbery at Cave, Williamsburg, New York.
2001 Slides, at Cubica, Williamsburg, New York.
1997 Painting and object, Gaguma, Paris, France.
1996 Montgallet II/III painting, Montgallet, Paris, France.
1995 Light, painting installation and performance, Studio LoftGallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1988 Atelier Lita Speroni, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1987 Drawing, paintings and prints, INCAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ONE PERSON SHOWS
2022 Land of Prayers, the Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2022 Paperwork, the Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2019 Paintings and Sculptures, Studio Luz, Brooklyn, New York.
2018 Spirit/Life, French Society of Salto, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 Back in NY/ the power of art, Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano, NY, New York.
2009 SidewalkInstallation IV with Facundo and Cala Newbery, Brooklyn, New York.
2008 I'm waiting, paintings at Simple Cafe, Brooklyn.
2004 New Works, MINE Metal/art, Williamsburg, NY.
1998 Painting-Sculpture-Installation, Artere, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
1997 Magritte is dead, Montgallet, Paris, France.
1995 La Partida de la Fragata, painting, object and glass painting, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1994 Wet Paint, Buenos Aires Architect's Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1990 Symbol, oil paintings, San Martin Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Painting for the Eyes, at the 90th Anniversary of the Salto's Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Desvelos, inks, Salto's Sports Club, Salto, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
PUBLIC ART
2018 Spirit/Life, San Pablo Church of the Conversion in Salto, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012 The BackPack Gallery, at Governor Island Art Fair and Dumbo Art Festival, New York.
2009 On the Universe, intervention at Dharma Studio Healing for Windows Brooklyn 2009, Brooklyn, New York.
1996/ongoing Snow Painting, Paris - New York.
2000 Installation of layers of translucent paintings at the clock of Alexander Platz, Berlin, Germany.
1999-09 Cloud and Sky paintings, Williamsburg, New York.
Statement
My work starts with an impulse that becomes a dialogue between materials, gestures and internal inquiries about the nature of art and my relationship to it. The blurry line where the artist's work ends and art begins, that point in between is what drives me.
There is a unsettled quality that arises between habits and tendencies, and that which emerges. The pigment and texture of the casein paint on wood panels have a grounding effect while their vertical composition aligns me spiritually. It is an intimate process, to witness and surrender to what is present without influencing the internal dynamics.
Intrinsically spiritual, the work is a continuous practice of contemplation. I reflect on it as a catalyst where the divine and the mundane merge.
LZ -Brooklyn, 2024