Lucy Mattos Museum - Magnificent Contemporary Art Space Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina

'City Woman'

Renowned Sculptor Lucy Mattos is a professor of Fine Arts, specialized in Sculpture, graduated from the prestigious Prilidiano Pueyrredon University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been working in her atelier in Buenos Aires since 1980 and participates in numerous exhibitions and art fairs. Her monumental sculptures are located in public spaces, and she lectures, as well as teaches; and has been a Juror of many top tier juried shows. Lucy Mattos is the Director of the Lucy Mattos Museum, established in 2012. 

'Birdfish Woman'

She is influenced by the masters Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and something by Salvador Dalí, and feels great admiration for Major Master Michelangelo Buonarroti. Her works range from monumental sculpture to artistic jewelry, with a primary focus on the figure of Woman from a symbolic point of view. The artist uses materials bronze, silver, wood, white metals, acrylics, polyester resin, cement, alabaster and natural fibers, among others. In 1990 she created the polyester-intralight neon technique, which allows light to come from inside the artworks, breaking the paradigm of traditional sculpture.

The Lucy Mattos Museum is located in San Isidro, Buenos Aires - Argentina. Permanently exhibiting her artworks, as well as temporary exhibitions of invited artists and hosting continuous cultural activities, art programming and events.

Citibank distinguished her with the “Creative Women” award. The Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires recognizes her as an “Outstanding Woman” in 2015. Recipient of the 60 Masters of Contemporary Art Award in France 2016 and New York 2018. Mattos was nominated in 2017 for the Global Art Awards, final shortlist at Burj Khalifa in Dubai. In 2018 she presented her art film, “Where are we going?” in Spain. In 2020 she was part of the Guggenheim Museum's 60th Anniversary Book and in 2021, she exhibited works in Hong Kong and at the Firenze Biennale, Italy.

Her artworks are in the permanent collections of museums and in the private collections of collectors all over the world - from Argentina, Brazil, Panama, the United States, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Japan and South-Korea, to name a few.