Attila Richard Lukács

Attila Richard Lukács (1962) was born in Alberta and graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 1985. Lukács’ work was included in The Young Romantics exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery (1985), an influential exhibition curated by Scott Watson. After moving to Berlin in 1986, Lukács worked at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and practiced in New York and Hawaii before returning to Vancouver. His range as an artist is evident in his abstract paintings and collages, as well as his large-scale figural paintings, collection of paintings of flowers and trees, and numerous etchings. Lukács has shown extensively internationally and has work in collections such as Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; Vancouver Art Gallery; Rideau Hall, Ottawa; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; Edmonton Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Ontario; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; Froahlich Collection, Germany; Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany; Phyllis Kind, New York; John Stewart Collection, New York; Salah Bachir, Toronto; and Dietmar Werle, Cologne, Germany.