︎ BIO
Lucas Pisano
Born in Buenos Aires in 1977, he has lived in Turin, Italy, since April 2022. He completed his academic training in 2001, graduating as a National Professor of Painting from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts (IUNA, Buenos Aires). Since then, he has developed a visual practice that expands from drawing and painting to object-making, collage, installation, and interdisciplinary experimentation, incorporating performative and audiovisual languages.
In 2010, he initiated Heliotropic Experiment, a collective scenic investigation that merges performative action with visual environments. Alongside this, he has worked as a teacher in both public and private institutions, and since 2011, he has coordinated a personal workshop-laboratory focused on pictorial experimentation. His practice also includes collaborations as an illustrator and graphic designer in editorial, theatrical, and musical projects.
Pisano’s work is marked by a constant transformation of languages and materials. His production does not follow an eclectic impulse, but rather a critical practice that appropriates excess, residue, and fragments as strategies to dismantle representational systems. From fragmented cartographies to greasy totems that condense the saturation of contemporary spectacle, his poetics turn the abject into form and the discarded into monument. In his work, accident and error—together with repetition and accumulation—become mechanisms that challenge order and resist any symbolic closure. Insistence becomes a form of escape.
Throughout his career, he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Among the most notable are:
Participation in the 10th Itaú Visual Arts Award 2019, with the work “CÚMULO N° 34 o La conquista de la permanencia”, exhibited at the Museo del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires (2019)
Individual exhibition "CUMULOS 2015-2018 grease impregnation on paper". Espacio Sísmico Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018)
- Participation in the 106th edition of the National Exhibition of Visual Arts, with the work "CÚMULO N°33", in the painting section,
exhibited
at the Palais de Glace Buenos Aires, (2017))
Individual exhibition "CÚMULOS impregnation of grease on paper", at 704 Oficina de Artea, Buenos Aires (2016)
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Collective
exhibition
"12 Rounds, recorridos descentrados", at Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2014)
Performance "Experimento Heliotrópico", Centro Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires. (2010 - 2012)
- Collective exhibition Lucas Pisano - Julia Cossani at Pasaje 17 Galería de Arte contemporáneo, Buenos Aires (2010)
Participation
in AAGA AWARDS, exhibition at Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires (2005)
Participation in the 94th edition of the National Exhibition of Visual Arts, in the sculpture section, with the work "FLORACIÓN 1 Y 2"
exhibited
at Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2005)
Publication in Amnesia Magazine No. 5 mail art, Buenos Aires (2005)
Participation in the 49th edition of the Manuel Belgrano Municipal Hall of Visual Arts, in the drawing section, at the Eduardo Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires (2004)
In the graphic arts field, he created visual work for productions by the collective Las BERTHAS (Rainbow City, La amenaza del corazón purpúreo, Boom Boom Barbie, Carne de caramelo), and for albums such as Monosotro Desfragmentando (2017), La trompa así I & II (2013–2015), and Monosotro I (2016). In 2020, he collaborated artistically on the performance Carne argentina, preludio para un cyborg de las pampas by Patricio Suárez.
The work of Lucas Pisano — critical, sensorial, and material — raises questions about representation, visual culture, and symbolic inscription processes, constructing a territory where instability and the residual take form as memory, gesture, and persistence.
In 2010, he initiated Heliotropic Experiment, a collective scenic investigation that merges performative action with visual environments. Alongside this, he has worked as a teacher in both public and private institutions, and since 2011, he has coordinated a personal workshop-laboratory focused on pictorial experimentation. His practice also includes collaborations as an illustrator and graphic designer in editorial, theatrical, and musical projects.
Pisano’s work is marked by a constant transformation of languages and materials. His production does not follow an eclectic impulse, but rather a critical practice that appropriates excess, residue, and fragments as strategies to dismantle representational systems. From fragmented cartographies to greasy totems that condense the saturation of contemporary spectacle, his poetics turn the abject into form and the discarded into monument. In his work, accident and error—together with repetition and accumulation—become mechanisms that challenge order and resist any symbolic closure. Insistence becomes a form of escape.
Throughout his career, he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Among the most notable are:
Participation in the 10th Itaú Visual Arts Award 2019, with the work “CÚMULO N° 34 o La conquista de la permanencia”, exhibited at the Museo del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires (2019)
Individual exhibition "CUMULOS 2015-2018 grease impregnation on paper". Espacio Sísmico Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018)
- Participation in the 106th edition of the National Exhibition of Visual Arts, with the work "CÚMULO N°33", in the painting section, exhibited at the Palais de Glace Buenos Aires, (2017))
Individual exhibition "CÚMULOS impregnation of grease on paper", at 704 Oficina de Artea, Buenos Aires (2016)
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Collective exhibition "12 Rounds, recorridos descentrados", at Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2014)
Performance "Experimento Heliotrópico", Centro Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires. (2010 - 2012)
- Collective exhibition Lucas Pisano - Julia Cossani at Pasaje 17 Galería de Arte contemporáneo, Buenos Aires (2010)
Participation in AAGA AWARDS, exhibition at Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires (2005)
Participation in the 94th edition of the National Exhibition of Visual Arts, in the sculpture section, with the work "FLORACIÓN 1 Y 2" exhibited at Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2005)
Publication in Amnesia Magazine No. 5 mail art, Buenos Aires (2005)
Participation in the 49th edition of the Manuel Belgrano Municipal Hall of Visual Arts, in the drawing section, at the Eduardo Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires (2004)
In the graphic arts field, he created visual work for productions by the collective Las BERTHAS (Rainbow City, La amenaza del corazón purpúreo, Boom Boom Barbie, Carne de caramelo), and for albums such as Monosotro Desfragmentando (2017), La trompa así I & II (2013–2015), and Monosotro I (2016). In 2020, he collaborated artistically on the performance Carne argentina, preludio para un cyborg de las pampas by Patricio Suárez.
The work of Lucas Pisano — critical, sensorial, and material — raises questions about representation, visual culture, and symbolic inscription processes, constructing a territory where instability and the residual take form as memory, gesture, and persistence.