NAME: Carmen Lizardo
BIRTH PLACE: Dominican Republic
BIOGRAPHY
Carmen Lizardo was born in La Romana, a small town in the Dominican Republic; she has been living in New York for 14 years.
Lizardo creates mixed-media work that combines alternative photographic processes with digital media, painting, and printmaking methods. Her must recent work, explores issues race, gender, identity and alienation from both her birth land and the US, her homeland.
In addition to her studio work, Carmen Lizardo is an Associate Professor of Drawing, Design, and Digital Media at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She holds a BFA and MFA from Pratt Institute. She prints in her darkroom at home and paints in her studio in Kingston, New York.
