Attila Richard Lukacs
Best known for creating provocative paintings of homoerotic and hypermasculine figures including military cadets and gay skinheads, Alberta-born artist Attila Richard Lukacs also renders botanical idylls. Referencing a Lukacs series based on yearbook photographs and publicity brochure stills of US soldiers, Thomas W. Sokolowski writes, “While his previous skinheads and sexual athletes could easily be seen as dangerous, the newest body of work might cause us to refocus our gaze…. In the Post-Reagan Era, as troops gather in the deserts of Arab lands, the horror implicit in these ‘recruiting’ images becomes indelibly clear…. Are they really the Best and the Brightest? …Lukacs has given us a lot to think about and it’s frightening as hell.”
After graduating with Honours from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver (1985), Lukacs moved to Berlin to serve a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (1986 - 1988), then relocated to serve another residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (1989), before moving to New York City (1996). He also served residencies at the Alberta College of Art and Design (2002) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004). He’s presented performances including three short works of costume and design entitled Glen Gould with the National Ballet of Canada (2000) and Ich hole meinen Koffer ab' Club Spyder Galaxy in Zurich (2000), and lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture (1997).
Lukacs has staged scores of solo exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Arbor Vitae at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, Heads at Galerie Schedler in Zurich, and Myths about my Garden at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York City. He has also participated in scores of group shows such as Full Frontal at Belkin Satellite in Vancouver, ART FORUM Berlin at the Johnen Galerie, and Naked Truths at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu.
He lives and works in Vancouver.
After graduating with Honours from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver (1985), Lukacs moved to Berlin to serve a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (1986 - 1988), then relocated to serve another residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (1989), before moving to New York City (1996). He also served residencies at the Alberta College of Art and Design (2002) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004). He’s presented performances including three short works of costume and design entitled Glen Gould with the National Ballet of Canada (2000) and Ich hole meinen Koffer ab' Club Spyder Galaxy in Zurich (2000), and lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture (1997).
Lukacs has staged scores of solo exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Arbor Vitae at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, Heads at Galerie Schedler in Zurich, and Myths about my Garden at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York City. He has also participated in scores of group shows such as Full Frontal at Belkin Satellite in Vancouver, ART FORUM Berlin at the Johnen Galerie, and Naked Truths at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu.
He lives and works in Vancouver.