Lucia Hierro USA, b. 1987
Works
Biography
Lucia Hierro (b. 1987, USA) is a Dominican American conceptual artist born and raised in New York City, Washington Heights/Inwood, and currently based in the South Bronx. Hierro’s practice, which includes sculpture, textile art, digital media and installation, confronts twenty-first–century capitalism through an intersectional lens.
Hierro earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase (2010) and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2013). Her larger-than-life soft sculptures, created using textile elements, draw inspiration from the traditional practice of sewing she observed from the women in her family. Hierro’s choices manifest her own multidimensional experience as a Dominican American New Yorker. Lifting visual matter from the streets and media, she demonstrates how objects can carry cultural knowledge, weaving subjective narratives that explore the elasticity of identity, heritage, opportunity, and power.
Appropriating imagery that spans commerce and art history, Hierro’s Pop Art-inflected work examines consumer habits and the ways they shape cultural identity. Her choice of objects and brands is deliberate, reflecting shared cultural experiences in a globalized world defined by migration, capitalism, and overconsumption. By confronting us to what draws us all together, her work offers both a critical and affectionate commentary of contemporary life.
Hierro's work has been exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York), Latchkey Projects (New York), Primary Projects (Miami), Sean Horton Presents (Dallas), and Casa Quien in the Dominican Republic. Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the JP Morgan & Chase Collection, the Progressive Art Collection and the Rennie collection in Vancouver, among others. Her work has recently joined the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Exhibitions
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Lausanne – Almost forgot, we're moving
Group Show 11 - 21 Mar 2026After seven years at Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6, our Lausanne space is preparing to relocate closer to the lake at Avenue d’Ouchy 70, 1006 Lausanne. Over these seven years, we’ve hosted...Read more -
Good Morning Zurich!
13 - 28 Jun 2025The Opening Show: “ Good Morning Zurich! ” We are presenting a two-week ephemeral exhibition featuring a vibrant mix of works by artists from our program. This show is both...Read more -
From Print to Presence: An Exhibition of Inspiration
March 14 - May 11 in Geneva / March 15 - May 11 in Lausanne 14 Mar - 11 May 2024Step into the dynamic world of "From Print to Presence," where each poster is not just a visual masterpiece but a portal into the profound inspirations that birthed them.Read more -
Capital M
10 Dec 2022 - 10 Feb 2023Read more
Installation shots
Press
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An Emptiness Yet to Come
José Mármol, Guernica Magazine, September 17, 2025 -
SCALING UP
Lucia Hierro on Bodegas, Logos, and Monumentalizing the MundaneKatharina Sauermann, PIN-UP Magazine, April 17, 2025 -
What to Collect at Dallas Art Fair, Year 17
Catherine D. Anspon, Paper City Magazine, April 7, 2025 -
Art Paris: les tops et les flops de l'édition 2024
Charlotte Fauve, Télérama, April 5, 2024 -
“De todo un poco”: Lucia Hierro’s Love Letter to New York City’s Bodegas
Andrea Zambrano, Guggenheim Articles, October 13, 2023 -
On doing right by your work
Eva Recinos, The Creative Independent, June 23, 2023 -
Première européenne à Lausanne, Lucia Hierro a le pop art pessimiste..
Florence Millioud Henriques, 24 Heures, January 12, 2023 -
Lucia Hierro ART ’13 creates fine art with shopping bags
BRIANNA WU, Yale Daily News, May 5, 2022 -
Recipes for representation: Lucia Hierro at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Erica Cardwell, Art in America, December 21, 2021 -
See New York Through the Eyes of Lucia Hierro
Cultured Magazine, June 26, 2021 -
In “Marginal Costs,” Artist Lucia Hierro Mines the Space Between Objects and Personal Histories
Marley Marius, Vogue, June 3, 2021
