Lucy Raven

Lucy Raven (born 1977) is an American artist. Raven's work is multidisciplinary and includes photography, installation, sound, animation and performative lectures. .

Raven was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1977. She holds two degrees from the University of Arizona Tucson: a bachelor of fine arts in studio art, and a bachelor of arts in art history. In 2008 she received a MFA degree from Bard College. In 2016 Raven took a position as assistant professor at Cooper Union School of Art.

She has had many awards presented to her for her works including Artadia Award in San Francisco . In 2010 she had a solo show at the Nevada Museum of Art. Raven's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chicago Video Data Bank and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

In 2017 she won the “Kunst am Bau” (Art in Architecture) competition to install an artwork in theBauhaus Museum Dessau. One of her recent projects was in 2017 where she performed in a new film of hers called Subterrestrial Cinema. She played this in the Guggenheim Museum where she used some of the museums materials to bring to light the museums unknown expertise in non-objective film.

Raven's 2014 work Curtains shows the connection between modern day movie making and location and space.