Jessica Lagunas is a New York City-based Latinx artist. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2019); Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Medellín, Colombia (2018); as part of “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA” at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), and at LAXART, both in CA (2017); the Everhart Museum, PA (2016); the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. (2012); the International Festival of Contemporary Arts–City of Women, Slovenia (2010); the Jersey City Museum, NJ (2010, 2007); Bronx Museum, NY (2006), among others; and in biennials including Pontevedra, Spain (2010); El Museo del Barrio, NY (2007); Tirana, Albania (2005); Cuenca, Ecuador (2001); Caribbean, Dominican Republic (2001); and Paiz, Guatemala (2012, 2010, 2008); as well as in cities in the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela.

Lagunas is a grantee from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2014), New York State Council on the Arts (2022), Hispanic Society Museum & Library (2021), City Artist Corps (2021), and Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) (2021, 2016). Other grants include the Urban Artist Initiative (2008), and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance’s ReGrant Program (NoMAA, 2011-2008).

She has been awarded residencies in New York City from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace (2022-3), The Bronx Museum AIM Alumni Residency (2019), El Museo del Barrio (2016), Wave Hill (2014), The Center for Book Arts (2012), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island (2010), The Bronx Museum of the Arts’s Artist in the Marketplace Program (2005-6); and in New Orleans at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018).

Her work has been featured in the publications Madam & Eve (London: Laurence King Publishing), and Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women (San Francisco: New World Library). Lagunas’s work is in the collection of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, through a donation from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) in 2018.