About

Bio

Lucrecia Troncoso is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Argentina, currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With a deep foundation in ceramics that began in childhood, she earned her Master of Fine Arts in New Practices from San Francisco State University in 2005.

Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally, including at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, the Universitat de Girona in Spain, El Basilisco in Buenos Aires, the Bronx Museum in New York, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in California, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in Florida, and the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.

Lucrecia has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, where she received an Emmy Gifford Foundation Fellowship, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Alongside her contemporary art practice, she creates handmade ceramic tableware and home objects through her studio, barrobylucrecia.com. She finds joy in spending time in nature, making music, and sharing homemade Argentine empanadas with friends and community.

Artist Statement

I explore the elemental materials that shape our world—clay, plaster, chips of stone, canvas, thread, colored pencils, wooden boards. I imagine these materials as beings in their own right, existing outside systems of consumerism, marketability, advertising, or even cultural expectations. Without these external pressures, how might materials reveal themselves? How might we engage with them differently? Would we still use plaster to smooth our walls, thread to craft gifts, or pigments to capture landscapes?

To approach these questions, I work to strip away the cultural and functional biases that cling to materials. I seek their essence—not to transform them, but to preserve them, sometimes absurdly, through meticulous, labor-intensive processes. In doing so, I uncover their intrinsic physical qualities and reflect on how contemporary society assigns purpose and value.

My hope is that, through these explorations, materials might reclaim a kind of autonomy—and that we, in turn, might encounter them with fresh insight and renewed presence.