Lisa DeAbreu
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Lisa DeAbreu (she/her/they/them) (b.1994, New York) is an interdisciplinary artist of Jamaican and Aruban origin based in Chicago. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History and Education at the University at Buffalo. Through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago she received a Post Baccalaureate Certificate and Masters in Fine Art and Studio in Painting and Drawing. Striving to bring light to generational trauma, loss, layered identities and interwoven relationships; she reflects on how we build memory using cultural heritage, symbolism and materiality to evoke themes of existence, transformation and connection.
Exhibitions: Her work has been shown at the University at Buffalo Student Union, Silo City Buffalo NY, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Project Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago CAPX Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Incubator Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, University of Chicago Logan Center, Art City Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Wellness Center, The Plan Chicago, Evoke Chicago, FLXST Contemporary Gallery Chicago, Fortune House Chicago, and Layr Gallery in Vienna, Austria.