Mónica Vega

Mónica Vega (1983, Monterrey, México) graduated from the school of Architecture in 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 2015 founded her lighting practice LumLum in México City, where she develops residential, hospitality, retail, and cultural lighting projects.

Her work in light has been awarded at the research contest The Light Symposium Paper Competition, organized by the Wismar University of Applied Sciences Technology, Business, and Design in 2016; In 2019 Her project There is no Place Like Home originally exhibited in Monterrey, México, was a finalist at the Lamp Awards in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, she combines her professional practice with lecturing, collaborating with Universities such as Centro de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Universidad Anáhuac, ITESM, Universidad de Monterrey, CENTRO, and at the Illuminating Engineering Society e International Association of Lighting Designers.

Vega works in lighting installations mixing natural and artificial light. Her main purpose is to share how light interacts with all materials and matter, how light travels through space and crashes with surfaces, and how these materials reflect, contain, and mold light.

We are subject and object
Surface and observers