Carmen Lizardo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kingston New York.  She was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated when she was in her 20s to New York City where she studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
 

Lizardo’s photographs are autobiographical, deeply personal and culturally resonant of her ongoing quest to connect with ancestral roots.  She creates a series of narratives that explore the complexities of homeland displacement, the search for identity and retrieval of forgotten histories. The images on view in the West Strand Gallery are part of a series she titles Pretty Hair Abides to Yanking.