Margaret Lanzetta is a New York-based artist who exhibits widely nationally and internationally. She is best known for her abstract, culturally inspired work with digitized motifs drawn from Buddhism, 60’s pop culture, nature, and contemporary industry. With varying media: paint, textiles, ceramics, ink, paper; and an enduring thematic interest in saturated color, repetition, and pattern, a lexicon of motifs are used to explore larger issues of language, political power, spirituality, and cultural migration. Critic John Yau has written, “Lanzetta undermines the sense of order and decorum normally associated with cultural and architectural patterns, transforming the decorative into something far-removed from paradise.”
In 2018 Lanzetta’s work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition, “Club 57: Art in the East Village”; and at the “Main Window,” Brooklyn. International exhibitions include “Another Global City,” (pop-up solo) National Museum of Bangkok, Thailand 2019, a painting installation for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Projects, India 2016-17, and “2nd Bloom,” Singapore, 2018. Her work is included in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Yale University Museum. Reviews and interviews about Lanzetta’s work have been published in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical.com, Two Coats of Paint, and several Indian and Asian art journals.
Internationally, Lanzetta recently completed her second Fulbright Fellowship: a three-year Global Flex Fellowship for research of historic and contemporary art and textiles in India, Singapore, and Thailand. She has been awarded art residencies at the British Academy in Rome, INSTINC, Singapore; and Youkubo Art Space, Tokyo. Domestic residencies include the Ucross Foundation, Dieu Donne Papermill, Greenwich House Pottery and the Virginia Center for the Arts.
