Bonnie Lucas (born 1950) is an artist and educator. She was also a union activist while working as an adjunct art professor at City College, CUNY in New York City.
Lucas is from Syracuse, New York. She attended Wellesley College, majoring in Art History, [1] and earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University. [2]
Lucas creates art focused on feminine themes: domesticity, identity, and childhood. [3] She dismantles feminine objects and reassembles them to new configurations of art. [4]
Her first one-person show was at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in NYC in 1979. She had three one-person shows at the Avenue B Gallery in the East Village, NYC in 1985, 1986, and 1987, respectively. [5]
2011: Collages: Esopus Gallery [6]
2014: 40 Year Retrospective: Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery [7]
2017: Young Lady: JTT [8] showing works made between 1983-1987 [9] - recognized by Time Out New York as one of the Top Five New York Art Shows [10]
2022: Girl with Purse: RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL
2023: Bonnie Lucas: ILY2, Portland, OR
Lucas lives in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. She has been in the same rent-stabilized apartment that also doubles as her studio since 1979. [11]
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Bonnie Lucas (born 1950) is an artist and educator. She was also a union activist while working as an adjunct art professor at City College, CUNY in New York City.
Lucas is from Syracuse, New York. She attended Wellesley College, majoring in Art History, [1] and earned a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University. [2]
Lucas creates art focused on feminine themes: domesticity, identity, and childhood. [3] She dismantles feminine objects and reassembles them to new configurations of art. [4]
Her first one-person show was at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in NYC in 1979. She had three one-person shows at the Avenue B Gallery in the East Village, NYC in 1985, 1986, and 1987, respectively. [5]
2011: Collages: Esopus Gallery [6]
2014: 40 Year Retrospective: Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery [7]
2017: Young Lady: JTT [8] showing works made between 1983-1987 [9] - recognized by Time Out New York as one of the Top Five New York Art Shows [10]
2022: Girl with Purse: RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL
2023: Bonnie Lucas: ILY2, Portland, OR
Lucas lives in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. She has been in the same rent-stabilized apartment that also doubles as her studio since 1979. [11]
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