LUCILA GRADIN
(San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, 1981) 

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Lucila Gradín holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the National University of the Arts. In 2011, she was a grantee of CIA – Center for Artistic Research. For the past ten years, she has been working on the creation of a medicinal and dyeing herbarium in collaboration with healers, doctors, philosophers, biologists, and others. She lives and works in Buenos Aires.  In 2024, she took part in the Forest Festival of the Arts Biennial in Okayama, Japan, and in the 15th Havana Biennial, El camino de la seda, La Habana.  Her solo exhibitions include: Chinchamale, la comunidad de las plantas , ICPNA, Lima  2025),Genealogía vegetal, Galería COTT, Buenos Aires (2024); Cosmogonía nativa, Museo MARCO, Buenos Aires (2023); Mburucuyá, Smol, Buenos Aires (2023); El color de un jardín, herbario tintóreo, Proa21, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2022); Cromatología vegetal, solsticio de verano, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires (2022); Indigoferea tinctoria, Galería El Mirador, Buenos Aires (2019); La contemplación de las semillas, FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); Biosfera, site-specific installation at FNA, Buenos Aires (2015); La cosmogonía del poroto, Galería Foster Catena, Buenos Aires (2014); Casas para catástrofes, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2011); Floating Word Flowers, Steamboat, Colorado, USA (2006); Magnolia, Galería Proyecto A, Buenos Aires (2005). 

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She has participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Argentina and abroad. 

Her residency programs include: Artistic Residencies of the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage at Los Alerces National Park, Argentina (2022); PROA21, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022); La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018); FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); El Ranchito, Matadero, Madrid, Spain (2014); and Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA (2013). She received the Oxenford Grant in 2020 and the FNA – National Fund for the Arts Grant (2019/16/11/9). She participated in BIENALSUR (2021 and 2017) and in the Drawing Biennial (2021 and 2019). 

Together with Andrés Pasinovich, she created Marabunta, a program fostering exchanges between local artists and Latin American curators such as Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico), Moacir Dos Anjos (Brazil), Sol Henaro (Mexico), Miguel López (Peru), Helena Chávez Mac Gregor (Mexico), Agustín Pérez Rubio (Spain), and Itzel Vargas (Mexico), among others. She was also co-director, alongside Fernanda Vilella, of the collective A.L.A. – Artistas en Latinoamérica, through which they organized several residencies: in 2014 at Fundación Cinenómada para las Artes, Sorojchi Tambo, La Paz, Bolivia; in 2012 at Taller 7 Residency, Medellín, Colombia; in 2011 Los nuevos sensibles, Vicente Vargas Studio, Valparaíso, Chile; and in 2010 Barracao Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.