Summary
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller, cultural worker and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. (black, indigenous, queer, transgender, people of color) stories. Branfman-Verissimo has had solo shows at SEPTEMBER Gallery, Deli Gallery, Roll Up Projects and Printed Matter Inc., amongst others. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at MOCA Cleveland, Konsthall C, EFA Project Space, San Francisco w88 online casino Commission, Leslie Lohman Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the w88 online casino, and L’Internationale Online, amongst others. They have been awarded residencies and fellowships at The University of New Mexico, Black Space Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop and ACRE Residency. Lukaza’s artist books and printed editions have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Press Press and Printed Matter Inc. and is in the permanent collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, California College of the w88 online casino Printmaking Archive, University of California Santa Cruz Library, New York University Special Collections and San Francisco Museum of Art Library. Branfman-Verissimo is represented by SEPTEMBER Gallery.
Area of emphasis
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- Painting
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- Community art
Publications
Education
- w88 online casino, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, 2022
- BFA, Printmaking, California College of the w88 online casino, CA, 2015