Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1962, Attila Richard Lukacs pursued an education at the Emily Carr College of Art and graduated with Honours in 1985. He subsequently moved to Berlin where he worked as an artist for ten years before moving to New York and then Hawaii. He now resides in Vancouver, BC.

Lukacs’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Wrightwood 659, Chicago; Maureen Paley Gallery, London; Johnen Galerie, Berlin; Vancouver Art Gallery; Edmonton Art Gallery; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; Musée d’art Contemporain des Laurentide, (Saint-Jérôme; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Galerie Schedler, Zürich, amongst many others.

His work is in numerous public collections including public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Audain Art Museum, Whistler; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; Vancouver Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Edmonton Art Gallery; Oakville Galleries; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum van Hedendaage Kunst; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Schwules Museum Berlin; Froahlich Collection, Stuttgart, amongst others, as well as numerous private collections.