Visiting Artist Lecture: Abigail Lucien

Visiting Artist Lecture: Abigail Lucien
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 7 p.m.
Civic Square Building, Room 110

Bio
Abigail Lucien (b.1992) is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, writing, 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’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Frieze Magazine, and Art in America. National and international exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), MoMA PS1 (NY), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), SculptureCenter (NY), MAC Panamá (Panamá City, PAN), Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), Tiwani Contemporary (London, UK), Deli Gallery (NY), Nicola Vassell Gallery (NY), and Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, Ga). Lucien is based in New York where they are an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC.

Image Credit:
A Slow Burning Incandescence, 2022
enamel, vinyl, and acrylic on steel
60 x 28 x 12 in

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all.

ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event.
Masks strongly encouraged
Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators
Quiet room available