María Lucía ‘Lulu’ Varona will be in residence at The Square from September - October 2022.

Lulu is an embroidery-based artist whose practice addresses contemporary conditions as she visualizes landscapes and their hidden narratives, each telling a story and revealing banal curiosities that are commonly unnoticed in our daily lives. She started embroidering at the age of 10 after learning her techniques from her grandmother and her growing fascination with narrative art and comic books.

She currently lives and works between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and New York City, and has exhibited at Bronx Art Space, New York (2017), Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017), Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY (2019), MACO Feria de Arte, Mexico City (2020), Embajada, San Juan Puerto Rico (2020), amongst other spaces. She has also participated in residencies such as International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NYC (2018), Flux Factory in Queens, NYC (2019), Program for Independent Studies at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico (2020), Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions in rural southwest Wisconsin (2021), the Uncommon Residency with Teton Art Lab in Wyoming (2022), and the Art Omi Residency (2023).