Abigail Lucien (b.1992) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, literature, and time-based media, their practice addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, myth, and place by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief/care. 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 received the 2023 Sondheim Award, was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is a recipient of a 2023 Ruby’s Award, 2021 VMFA Fellowship, and the 2020 Harpo Emerging Artist Fellowship. Past exhibitions include SculptureCenter (NY), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MoMA PS1 (NY), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), MAC Panamá (Panamá), Tiwani Contemporary (London), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA). Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Amant Studio & Research Residency (NY), the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Wrocław, Poland), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI). 

Lucien is currently based in New York and teaches as an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Hunter College.