Cecilia Lopez is a composer, improviser and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation; often through the creation of electronic sound devices and systems.
Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Czech Republic), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), the XIV Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador) and MASSMoCA, MATA Festival 2012, Experimental Intermedia, Fridman Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room and Lincoln Center ( United States). She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015 and has participated in various international residency programs including Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, US) , Rupert Residency (Lithuania), Ostrava Days Institute (Czech Republic), Harvestworks (NYC) and Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn, NY).
Grants and awards include a New York State Council for the Arts Individual project grant sponsored by Harvestworks, the Media Arts Grant (MAAF) for Individual Artists from the New York State Council for the Arts in partnership with Wave Farm, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Jerome Foundation and Roulette Intermedium Commission, NYSCA Woman’s Fund in Music and the MacCracken Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
As an improviser she has performed with Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock, Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez, Joe Moffett, Wenchi Lazo, Barbara Togander among others. In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems co-produced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Past collaborators include Ingrid Laubrock, Zeena Parkins, Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, John Driscoll and Carrie Schneider. She holds an MFA in Music/Sound from The Milton Avery School of the Arts Bard College and an MA in composition from Wesleyan University. She is currently a PhD Candidate in composition at the GSAS at NYU University.
