Risa Puno

Risa Puno is a New York City-based sculpture and installation artist who uses interactivity and play to understand how we relate to one another. She has exhibited with national and international organizations, including: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; NYC Department of Parks and Recreation; the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, MA; Onassis USA; Socrates Sculpture Park; El Museo del Barrio; New Children’s Museum in San Diego, CA;, and Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. In 2019, she was selected by Creative Time for their inaugural Open Call award and was named FIGMENT’s first ever Interactive Artist of the Year. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, ProPublica, and The Boston Globe. Puno grew up in Louisville, KY. She studied art and medicine at Brown University and earned her MFA from New York University.