LIA ZUVILIVIA

Lia Zuvilivia (b. 1968) is an Argentine-born, Brooklyn-based artist working across painting, glass sculpture, and site-specific window and door interventions.

Since 1994, her interventions -built from layered lighting filters, glass, and mirrors- have transformed architectural glass into compositions that shift with the surrounding light.

She was invited as an artist in residencies at het Labo Brooklyn (Brooklyn, 2025) and Pouch Cove Foundation (Canada, 2023)

GRANTS

2021 CITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)

My work begins with an impulse that becomes a dialogue between materials, gestures, and internal inquiries about the nature of art and my relationship to it. The blurry line where the artist's work ends and art begins, that point in between is what drives me.

There is an unsettled quality that arises between habits and tendencies and that which emerges. The pigment and texture of the casein paint on wood panels have a grounding effect, while their vertical composition aligns me spiritually. It is an intimate process to witness and surrender to what is present without influencing the internal dynamics.

In the window interventions, these inquiries converge by making the impermanent and transient visible. I use lighting filters along with glass and mirrors for more permanent works, which I cut, layer, and attach to the window.  While inherently two-dimensional, when light interacts with these works, it alters their appearance by projecting fleeting shadows onto the surrounding space, transforming what begins as a two-dimensional piece into dynamic compositions that change and evolve with time and in response to the environment. The work itself seems to fade as the intangible projections reflect the uniqueness of each moment.

Intrinsically spiritual, the work is a continuous practice of contemplation. I reflect on it as a catalyst where the divine and the mundane merge.

LZ -Brooklyn, 2026