Lisa DeAbreu is a visual artist and educator living and working in Chicago. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts and an Art History and Education Minor at the University at Buffalo. She completed a Post Baccalaureate Certificate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and will complete her Masters in Fine Art and Studio in Painting and Drawing in the spring of 2024. Lisa is driven by her feelings of rootlessness being American born and Caribbean raised, exploring different mediums and artifacts to piece together fragments of her family's collective past.

Striving to bring light to generational traumas, loss, layered identities and interwoven relationships. She reflects on how we build memory and that innate human desire for connection. She has shown her work at the University at Buffalo Student Union, Silo City Buffalo NY, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Project Space. School of the Art Institute of Chicago CAPX Department, SAIC Incubator Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, University of Chicago Logan Center, Art City Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Wellness Center, The Plan Chicago, Evoke Chicago and FLXST Contemporary Gallery.