Lissette Bustamante (b. 1998) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist that explores contemporary urban landscapes through multimedia installations, specializing in sculpture and digital mediums. Her work has been exhibited at numerous organizations including Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL; National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Chicago, IL; and MANA Contemporary, Chicago, IL. Bustamante was honored with the Nave Proyecto Residency (2022) in Quito, Ecuador and the Anderson Ranch Residency (2015) in Snowmass Village, Colorado.
Bustamante is a first-generation Mexican American, born and raised in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in Art and Art History.
“Combining archived images with three-dimensional objects, I strive to curate an experience that embodies interactive integration. With materials such as metal, cement, and plastic, the work pays homage through visual parallels to industrialist urban landscapes, influenced by my upbringing in Chicago, IL. I am interested in abstracting images to mimic the formation of memory. By reprocessing family documents, my work alludes to the subjectivity of recollection while forefronting human interaction. Surrounded by a historically industrialized landscape with a huge immigrant population, it has informed my conflation of brutal aesthetics with intangible nostalgia.”
