Mark

Mark
MARIA “LULU” VARONA
(b.1993) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lives and works in San Juan

EDUCATION
2020 BA, Multidisciplinary in Visual Arts, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
2020 Program of Independent Studies, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Puerto Rico

RESIDENCIES
2024 Bed Stuy Art Residency
2023 Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2022 Micro-residency, The Clemente, New York, NY
2022 New Wave Art Weekend Residency, West Palm Beach
2022 Teton Art Lab, Wyoming
2021 Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE), Steuben, WI
2019 Artist-in-residence, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2017-18 Artist-in-residence, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY

GRANTS
2020 Queens Council of the Arts for New Works, Artist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Justo ahora, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2021 LABOR DADA, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico 
2017 Time Flames, curated by Alberto Zayas, Maid’s Room’ gallery, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico 
2014 El Principio, Mondo Bizarro Arte y Cómics, San Juan, PR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Quantum States, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Genius Loci, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2022 no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, Whitney Museum
2022 Tamo aquí, Embajada, San Juan
2021 mas damas, curated by Embajada, Green Gallery, Milwauee, WI
2021 Counter Flags, curated by Natalia Viera Salgado at Abrons Art Center, NYC
2020 International Neon Gallery/Galería Internacional del Neón, booth NP-13 at @zonamaco, curated by Bubu Negron, Rem Projects, Mexico City, MX
2019 Nothing Tropical/Nada Tropical, Miscelánea gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Works in Thread by Amir Badawi and Maria Lulu Varon, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2017 Self-Organize/ Auto-Organizar, Bronx Art Space, curated by Sofía Shaula, bronxartspace, NY
2017 Souvenir 154, curated by Raquel Perez Puig, Souvenir154, San Juan
2015 EXPO: Joma, Lulú y Maite, El Taller Secreto, San Juan, PR