Lucia Nogueira

Lucia Nogueira (1950–1998) was a Brazilian artist specialising in sculptures and installations, video works and drawings. Her work often alluded to the body and was concerned with the relationship between objects and language.

Biography

Nogueira was born in Goiânia in central Brazil and was the eldest of five children. She studied Journalism and Communications in Brazil, and studied photography in the US before traveling to London in 1975. Planning to stay for just two weeks to visit her brother, she ended up staying for the rest of her life.

Work Nogueira's first solo exhibition was at the Carlile Gallery in London in 1988 and other shows soon followed at the Serpentine Gallery and the Chisenhale Gallery in London; the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and at the Camden Arts Centre, London. Her work is in the collection of the Tate, The Arts Council England, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Museu Serralves and other international collections.

Nogueira was awarded a residency at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 1993 and a Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists in 1996. She died of cancer aged 48 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London.