Maria "Lulu" Varona
March 27 - April 20, 2026

María Lucía “Lulu” Varona Borges (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on embroidery, textiles, and the study of Puerto Rican social history. Her work weaves together labor memories, diaspora narratives, and the legacy of the needlework industry, using cross-stitch and other manual techniques as conceptual tools to examine labor, territory, and community.

Varona studied Multidisciplinary Visual Arts at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has been an artist-in-residence at Art Omi (2023), the International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP (2018), Flux Factory (2019), ACRE (2021), and the Independent Studies Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (2020). Her work has been exhibited in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the United States, and is part of private and institutional collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art.