Bonnie Lucas


Bonnie Lucas is an artist, educator, and union activist.
Lucas is from Syracuse, NY. She attended Wellesley College, majoring in Art History, and earned a Master's in Fine Arts from Rutgers University. She is an adjunct professor at City College Art Education program. She also teaches in New York City public schools.
Lucas creates art focused on feminine themes: domesticity, identity, and childhood. She dismantles feminized objects and reassembles them to new configurations of art.

Exhibitions

Her first gallery show was at the Avenue B Gallery in 1980s.
2011: Collages: Esopus Gallery
2014: 40 Year Retrospective: Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery
2017: Young Lady: JTT showing works made between 1983-1987 - recognized by Time Out New York as one of the Top Five New York Art Shows

Personal

Lucas lives in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. She has been in the same rent-controlled apartment that also doubles as her studio since 1979.