Abigail Lucien (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Cap-Haitian, Haiti and Florida. Working in sculpture, poetry, video, and sound, their practice looks at ways cultural identities and inherited colonial structures transmit to the body and psyche by playfully challenging systems of assimilation through material.
Lucien was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is a recipient of a 2020-21 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, and was the 2020 Harpo Emerging Artist Fellow. They hold a BFA from Florida State University and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Their work has exhibited at museums and institutions such as SculptureCenter (NY), MoMA PS1 (NY), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), UICA (Grand Rapids, MI), Museum of Fine Arts(Tallahassee, FL), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL), as well as Vox Populi Gallery, Hide Tide Gallery, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA.