LULU LOLO

Biography

LuLu LoLo is a multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, sculpture, installation, photography, in situ interventions, theatrical and video performance. Her work highlights her immigrant family heritage and her fascination with mystery and melodrama, especially the dramatic struggle of women in NYC’s past as seen in her acclaimed one-woman show, LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to The Fair Sex—Unfair Victims. Her recent one-woman show Macaroni and Mal Occhio portrays her childhood growing up Italian-American in El Barrio/East Harlem. Her large-scale installations at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, and Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY, paid tribute to her Italian immigrant grandmothers. LuLu LoLo’s flamboyant persona, featured as a madcap protagonist in colorful adventures photographed in high fashion style, has been exhibited at the 25th Small Works, NYU; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Islip Art Museum, NY; Millennium Messages, Smithsonian Institute; and Gale Gates, NY. As a performance artist she appeared in Love a Commuter Project, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY; Smack Mellon, NY; Whitney Museum, NY; Holly Solomon Gallery, NY; and Cleveland Performance Festival. She is also a Production Designer for feature films. The New York Times and The Village Voice have reviewed her work. LuLu LoLo is an apprentice to Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt. She is a life-long resident of El Barrio/East Harlem, New York, and a cancer survivor.