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Luciana Abait

Argentine artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Luciana Abait is an Argentine artist. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and printmaking at the National School of the Arts in Buenos Aires. Abait immigrated to the United States in 1997. She has exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the United States, as well as numerous museums and international art fairs. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and is a resident artist at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica.

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The public source identifies “Luciana Abait” as argentine artist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Luciana, Abait and Argentine.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Luciana, Abait and Argentine providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Luciana Abait” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.