Alex Lukas
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2020
Alex Lukas makes sculptures, prints, drawings, and intricate publications alongside long-term research-based projects, videos, and audio collages. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Kadist Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center’s Student Loan Art Collection. Lukas has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and has lectured at The Rhode Island School of Design, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Alfred University, and The University of Kansas.
He has been awarded residencies at The Bemis Center for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, and The Fountainhead among others. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and, after stints in Chicago and Philadelphia, moved to Pittsburgh in 2015 to pursue a MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently based in Cambridge, MA, Lukas is an instructor at the Maine College of Art.