Lucien Dulfan

Lucien Dulfan
Born	Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan (Дульфан, Люсьен Вениаминович) 14 February 1942 Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
Nationality	United States
Education	Odessa State Art Academy, Odessa, Ukraine [1]
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Kiss, Space, "S.O.S", "Mehndi Design"
Spouse(s)	Dinah Leonidovna Dulfan [2]
Awards	First prize (painting, 1975) USSR Ministry of Culture

Lucien Dulfan, (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 1942, in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is an Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990.^[3] During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.,^[4][5]

Biography

Lucien Dulfan was born on February 14, 1942 in Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during World War II , where his family was evacuated. The family returned to Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the Odessa State Art Academy from which he graduated in 1963.^[6] He became a member of the Union of Soviet Artists in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".^[7]

In the 60's he also participated in so called "Заборная выставка" (Exhibition on the fence).,^[8][9] He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City. He works in his art studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn.^[10]

Exhibitions

• Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR (1989)^[11]
• Gorky Gallery, Madison Ave, New York City (1995–96) ^[12]
• Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton. N.Y. (1997)^[13]
• International Art Studio "Radovan Trnavac Mića", Valjevo, Serbia^[14]
• Allan Stone Gallery, "Talent 2005", New York, NY (2005),^[15][16]
• Gallery5, Richmond, VA (2007),^[17][18]
• 532 Gallery RIPPED AND TORN New York, NY (2008)^[19]
• Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine^[20]
• Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair 2012, New York, NY (2012) ^[21][22]
• Zimmerly Art Museum,^[23][24]
• Center of Contemporary Art, M17, Kyiv, Ukraine (2013) ^[25]

Publications and Articles

• Farber, Celia (February 1997). "World's End: The Pre-millennium Tension of Russian Artist Lucien Dulfan". Spin. NewYork: SPIN Media LLC. 
• Robinson, George J. (December 1996). "Filling the Void". Novoe Russkoe Slovo. NewYork. 
• Rozhon, Tracie J. (March 30, 1997). "Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson". New York Times. NewYork. 
• Turchin, Valery (December 1992). "Ia sam sebe teatr" Я сам себе театр [I am my own Theatre]. Iskusstvo(Art) (in Russian). Moscow. 
• Turchin, Valery (January 1992). "Voobrajhenie i realnost v rabotach Lucien Dulfan" Воображение и реальность в работак Люсьена Дульфана [Imagination and Reality in the Works of Lucien Dulfan]. Iskusstvo(Art) (in Russian). Moscow. 
• Gradient Magazine ^[26]

Selected collections

• Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, NJ ^[27][28]
• The Embassy of Italy and the Institute of Italian Culture in Ukraine (“Collection Of Contemporary Art”), Ukraine ^[29]
• Ukrainian Art Collection (currated by Lyudmila Bereznitskaya), Germany, Berlin^[30]

Auctions

• Phillips ^[31]
• Shapiro Auctions ^[32]
• Golden Section ^[33]

Some paintings

• 
  Windows
  mixed media, 1994
• 
  Windows
  mixed media 1992

References

External links

• Lucien Dulfan Official Site
• Lucien Dulfan blog
• Дипломати й сучасне мистецтво
• Artodessa.com gallery
• Artlondon.com gallery
• Center For Book Arts site
• Dumbo Direct site
• A World to Win
• Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine
• blouinartinfo.com
• Russia's non-conformists find a new target
• interview with Dulfan (in Russian)
• Gallery Nika (in Russian)
• The Pendulum - Dulfaniada (Video) on YouTube
• The Pendulum or 200 images 20th century Part 2 (Video) on YouTube
• The Pendulum or 200 images 20th century Part 3 (Video) on YouTube