Cristina Lucas, born in 1973 in Jaén, lives and works in Madrid. In 1998, she studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (Spain). From 1999 to 2000, she continued her studies at the University of California, Irvine (USA), and from 2006 to 2007 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Since 2004, her works have been exhibited internationally. She has held solo exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles (near Madrid), the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico, the OK Centrum in Linz, MUDAM in Luxembourg, Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen, and the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Most recently, her work was featured at Manifesta 12 in Palermo. She has also participated in major art biennials such as the 12th Shanghai Biennale and the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale. Her work was recently included in the prominent group exhibition Diversity United, shown at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

For nearly three decades, Lucas has devoted herself to in-depth research into the consequences of humanity’s self-destructive relationship with the environment and history. Her work aims to question current economic ideologies and technologies, linking them to a new or rediscovered ethical framework. She also explores the question: what kinds of communities must be created to prepare us for the challenges of the future?

Cristina Lucas’ artistic practice is diverse and multidisciplinary, encompassing performance, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. Her artistic credo centers on aesthetic seduction as a means to raise awareness of the developments shaping our society. Her works touch on mechanisms of power, subtly analyzing and dissecting key political and economic structures to expose the contradictions between official historical narratives, reality, and collective memory.

She continually develops new visual representations of world maps, including the cartography of power, language, gender, and energy relations—often with a wink of irony. Cristina Lucas is regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists in the Spanish-speaking world.