Luciana Abait

Luciana Abait was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is currently based in Los Angeles.  Her multimedia works deal with climate change and environmental fragility, and their impacts on immigration in particular. 
Abait’s artworks have been shown widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in solo shows in galleries, museums and international art fairs. Selected exhibitions include On the Verge at Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana, A Letter to The Future at Los Angeles International Airport in California; Flow, Blue at Rockford College Art Museum and Luciana Abait at Jean Albano Gallery in Illinois; Nest at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; and ARCO in Spain. She has completed numerous corporate and public art commissions, among them “Vistas”, a 24 feet mural commissioned by Miami- Dade Art in Public Places and “Hong Kong Windows”, commissioned by Swire Properties in Hong Kong. 
Abait’s works and her focus on environmental activism have been featured in The Art Newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, Aesthetica, and Stir World among others. This work has led to her invitation as a guest speaker at the Culture Summit 2024 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Abait’s works are held in private, public and corporate collections from the United States, Europe, Latin America and East Asia. Among these collections are: Art in Embassies, US Department of State; The Related Group, Florida State University, Permanent Art Collection of Neiman Marcus, Miami-Dade Public Library System and Four Seasons in Florida; King and Spalding in Texas; Lehigh University Museum and West Collection in Pennsylvania; Sprint Corporation in Missouri; Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington D.C., and Freshfields and Swire Properties in Hong Kong. Abait is the recipient of the 2016 Santa Monica Individual Artist Fellowship Award, the 2022 “Art Lives Here” Award by the Geffen Playhouse, and the 2024 L.L Stewart Fellowship by Oregon State University.