Abigail Lucien (b.1992) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, writing, and time-based media, their practice addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, and myth by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief. Implicating our relationship to material and place through an architectural vernacular, Lucien uses formal poetics to ponder concepts such as loss, love, and grief as fluid processions rather than states to reach or become.

Lucien’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Frieze Magazine, and Art in America. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Center for the Arts (VT), and Nicola Vassell Gallery (NY). National and international exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), MoMA PS1 (NY), SculptureCenter (NY), MAC Panamá (Panamá City, PAN), Tiwani Contemporary (London, UK), and the Institute for Contemporary Art (RVA). Awarded fellowships and residencies include John Michael Kohler Arts Industry Residency (Sheboygan, WI), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Madison, ME), Amant Studio & Research Residency (NY), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI).

Lucien is based in New York where they are an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC.