Lucia Woo

@luciawoo

Disciplines

Fine ArtIllustrationPainting

Lives and Works

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About

Lucia Woo is a Bossier City–and Shreveport–based artist and educator whose work blends manga-inspired portraiture with experimental materials. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she began her career in graphic design and illustration before pursuing fine art studies in Canada and later relocating to the United States in 2009. Since 2016, Woo has taught in the Talented Art Program in Bossier City, where she mentors emerging young artists. She earned her Master’s degree in Art Education from Boston University in 2022. Her recent work combines oil painting with materials such as dried flowers, beeswax, and mica powder, creating richly textured surfaces that reflect themes of identity, migration, and cultural memory. Drawing from both her Asian heritage and life in Louisiana, Woo’s work explores transformation and resilience through a cross-cultural lens.

Artist Statement

Lucia Woo creates manga-inspired portraiture that moves between fantasy and the surreal, merging traditional techniques with experimental materials. Manga has been a formative visual language for her—not only as early inspiration, but as a way of seeing and constructing imagined worlds and figures. Her practice reflects a transnational journey that spans Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States. Beginning in graphic design and illustration, her work has gradually shifted toward a materially driven fine art practice grounded in painting and process. Alongside her studio work, she has taught in Bossier City’s Talented Art Program since 2016 and earned her M.A. in Art Education from Boston University in 2022. Recent work expands beyond conventional painting, integrating materials such as dried flowers, beeswax, and mica powder into oil-based compositions. These layered, tactile surfaces are built through a balance of control and unpredictability, allowing each piece to evolve through process. Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s concept of place as something shaped by lived experience and emotional connection, she approaches materials as carriers of memory and meaning. Organic and synthetic elements coexist, mirroring the shifting terrain of migration and cultural adaptation. In this way, her work becomes a site where place is not fixed, but continuously formed—tracing transformation, resilience, and hybrid identity through both surface and substance.