Attila Richard Lukacs was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1962. He attended the Emily Carr College of Art and graduated with Honours in 1985. He subsequently moved to Berlin where he worked as an artist for ten years before moving to New York and then Hawaii. He now resides in Vancouver, BC.
Lukacs’s work has recently been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Wrightwood 659 (Chicago, curated by Jonathan David Katz PhD), Winsor Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Johnen Galerie (Berlin), Vancouver Art Gallery, Maureen Paley Gallery (London), Edmonton Art Gallery, Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver), Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme, QC), Art Gallery of Calgary, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON), Galerie Schedler (Zürich), Diane Farris Gallery (Vancouver, BC) and Phyllis Kind Gallery (New York).
His work is in the public collections of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Edmonton Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, Museum London, Museum van Hedendaage Kunst, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and in many private collections.
