Lucien Dulfan

Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during World War II, where his family was evacuated.[3] The family returned to Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the Grekov Odessa Art school from which he graduated in 1963. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".[4] Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City. He works in his art studio at Mana Contamporary in Jersey City.[5]

According to StrangeTime Art, Dulfan’s paintings "reflect the boundless energy, originality, and passion of the artist’s own personality."[6][7] Lecien Dulfan also works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".[8]

“My art is dramatic, bold and uncompromising: I paint the very interesting human story through the filters of my dreams and subconscious.” — Lucien Dulfan[9]

• 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)[10][11][12]
• 2013 — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)[13][14]
• 2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)[15]
• 1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR[16]

• 1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"[17]
• 1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective[18]

• Lucien Dulfan works can be seen in museums of Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, Odessa Art Museum, The Museum of Odessa Modern Art[19], the Kostaki collection, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick [11][20], museums in Seoul, Warsaw, Poznan, Tbilisi, Kyiv and in many private collections.[21]

• Lucien Dulfan Official Site
• Lucien Dulfan blog