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Lorena Salcedo-Watson is an artist, printmaker, and educator. Her works on paper explore temporal qualities of life and interconnections in the natural world. Inspired by botany, entomology, and human anatomy, her large scale mixed-media drawings and original prints interpret aspects of nature, filtered through personal experiences, observation, and imagination.
Born in Guatemala, Lorena Salcedo-Watson received her B.F.A. from the Cooper Union, and her M.F.A. from Stony Brook University. Her professional work has primarily been in printmaking and education. She worked at Universal Limited Art Editions (U.L.A.E) as a master printer and collaborator, developing projects with artists utilizing a broad range of printmaking techniques. She has collaborated with notable artists including Elizabeth Murray, Terry Winters, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Carroll Dunham, Susan Rothenberg, Jane Hammond, Lisa Yuskavage, Ellen Gallagher, and Malcolm Morley. She has worked on printmaking collaborations with various printmaking workshops in NYC. She taught printmaking at the Cooper Union and is currently a Senior Lecturer and Professor of Practice in printmaking and drawing at Stony Brook University.
Recent exhibitions include; The Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island (MoCA LI), Gallery North, the 4th CAA Printmaking Triennial in the Museum of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, the Yunjian Art Museum, Shanghai, China, Omni Gallery in Uniondale, Marquee Projects in Bellport, Long Island Museum, and Heckscher Museum.