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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.
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