Soledad Lowe was born in Argentina and raised in Sweden, with formative years spent in London and New York, where she established an early career shaped by the cultural and historical rigor of major international auction houses. Her work as a gemologist and jewelry historian at Bukowskis and Stockholm Auctions in Sweden, as well as Christie’s London and New York, positioned her at the intersection of research, connoisseurship, and material heritage. During this period, she lectured in gemology and jewelry history and collaborated with the Swedish Court Jeweler W.A. Bolin, engaging closely with objects of significant historical provenance.
She studied Art and Cultural Studies, alongside related disciplines, at Stockholm University and is an FGA Graduate Gemologist from the Gemological Association of Great Britain in London. She later completed her studies in Design and Goldsmithing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and receiving a nomination for the American Facet Award.
In 2001, Lowe became Head Designer for the Japanese jewelry firm Yuri Ichihashi, marking the beginning of her international design trajectory. She later founded the New York–based gallery Objets du Désir, where she directed exhibitions and developed collections that engaged craftsmanship, cultural history, and contemporary aesthetics. Since 2003, she has led her bespoke jewelry studio, and in 2020 established her Miami art studio, where her practice increasingly bridges research-driven inquiry, spatial thinking, and material exploration.
Her work has received international recognition through participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 and the Venice Art Biennale 2024, presented by the European Cultural Centre. Her 2023 installation was nominated for Best Art Installation. Her practice is further supported by an international exhibition history, with solo and group presentations across gallery, diplomatic, and international art and design contexts in Europe and the United States. Her distinctions include the Fashion Group International Award 2018, and her work has been published twice in Contemporary Jewels as Never Seen Before.
Practice
Miami based Argentine-Swedish multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores how political history, social structures, and environmental instability shape human experience. Working with stone, cast composites, found debris, and reflective surfaces, she approaches materials as both evidence and metaphor, revealing how matter carries memory, authority, and erosion. Her sculptures and installations examine the tension between permanence and precarity, asking how systems designed to create stability often fracture under the pressures of ideology, inequality, and ecological change.
A formative influence in Lowe’s practice comes from surviving the Argentine dictatorship, an encounter with erasure and instability that informs her sensitivity to how power inscribes itself on bodies and landscapes. This history grounds her investigation of the ways social and environmental forces accumulate across time, creating visible ruptures as well as subtle traces. By engaging with climate change as an extension of political and social precarity, she frames ecological vulnerability as intertwined with broader questions of responsibility, justice, and collective agency.
Lowe’s work functions as a site for reflection, inviting viewers to reconsider the systems that shape their daily lives, governmental, cultural, economic, and ecological. Through material experimentation and historical awareness, she constructs environments that prompt deeper attention to resilience, adaptation, and the shifting conditions that define contemporary society. Her practice asserts that art can both witness and transform, opening space for critical inquiry and imagining futures shaped by accountability and care. Through these investigations, she positions artistic practice as a vital civic tool capable of fostering dialogue, societal understanding, and transformative collective imagination.