BIOGRAPHY
Carmen Lizardo is a multidisciplinary artist from the Dominican Republic whose work centers on photography and experimental processes. Her art explores themes of immigration, race, and womanhood, focusing on how identity is shaped through metamorphosis and cultural hybridization. Using layering, distortion, and archival materials, she creates imagery that is both meditative and confrontational, often incorporating the body as a symbol of presence, absence, and transformation.
Lizardo holds a BFA and MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, En Foco, Arts Mid-Hudson, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, MASS MoCA, Ragdale, and Amherst College.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues such as the Museum of the African Diaspora (Atlanta), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, NARS Foundation, BRIC, and ArtsBridge. Her projects have been featured in Hyperallergic and published in Gum Printing: Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes.
A permanent commission for the MTA at New York’s 181st Street Station anchors her public work. Community engagement plays a central role in her creative approach, linking studio experimentation with collaborative, socially rooted projects.