Lucien Dulfan

Infobox Artist
name = Lucien Dulfan


birthname = Lucien Dulfan
birthdate = February 14, 1942
location = Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
nationality = USA
field = Painting
training = Odessa State Art Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
movement = Dulfanism; abstract / figurative art
works = "Kiss", "Space"
awards = awd|First prize for painting|1975

Lucien Dulfan, (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 1942, in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is an American conceptual artist. When working in former USSR he was considered Nonconformist artist.

Born in Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, barely escaping Odessa massacre during German and Romanian occupation of Odessa, Ukraine. Lived in Odessa, Ukraine from 1946 until he immigrated with his family to United States in 1990 and has since lived in Manhattan, New York. He works in his art studio in D.U.M.B.O. New York.

Graduated from Odessa State Art Academy in 1963. Member of the Union of Soviet Artists since 1973. Participated in 141 exhibitions, including 111 international shows and 40 solo exhibitions worldwide.

Special Recognition and Awards

1977 First prize for painting, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, USSR and the Union of Soviet Artists (The most prestigious recognition awarded in the presiding fifty years of Soviet history).

2007 NoMAA Grant Program AwardFor the production of My Family, 10-12 large-scale paintings that will complete series Big Bang – Last Straw, an existing body of work of 10 or so paintings. Series explores "pre-creational space" - space without horizons where true freedom is found in falling, the future sends messages to the present, and the dead return to life without God's participation.

ome Publications

"World's End: The Pre-millennium Tension of Russian Artist Lucien Dulfan", Spin. Feb. 1997 "Filling the Void", George J. Robinson, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, Dec. 1996, New York City "I am my own Theatre", Turchin, V., Art (Iskusstvo), Dec. 1992, Moscow "Imagination and Reality in the Works of Lucien Dulfan", Turchin, V., Ibid., Jan. 1992, Moscow [http://rvamag.com/view_article.php?article_id=671&PHPSESSID=2ae468de406a9e293cf0e5f29661edae "Lucien Dulfan at Gallery 5"] , RVA Magazine, 2007, Richmond, Virginia

Selected Collections

* Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
* Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
* Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
* Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, NJ
* Ministry of Culture, Moscow, Russia
* Museum of Art, Kiev, Ukraine
* Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland
* Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland
* Odessa State Museum of Art, Ukraine
* Museum of Art, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
* Museum of Art, Poti, Republic of Georgia
* Kyrgyz State Museum of Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
* National Museum, Voronezh, Russia
* Kharkov Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
* Ochakov Art Museum, Ukraine
* Odessa Municipal Museum of the Private Collections of A.V.Bleshunov, Ukraine
* Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art
* Kostakis Collection, Greece
* Bob Guccione Jr., New York City
* Renaldo Rotto Collection, Genoa, Italy
* Ronald Parker Collection, US
* Elena Kornetchuck Private Collection, Pennsylvannia, US
* Patricia Sutherland Private Collection, New York, US
* Hilary & James Benard Private Collection, New York, US
* Dr.Waleed Ahmad Al-Busairi, Private Collection, Kuwait
* Maxim Shostakovich, Conductor and Pianist, Private Collection
* Mikhail Filimonov, Alexandra Global Investment Fund, Private Collection
* George Robinson, Founder of the Nurture Art Foundation, Private Collection
* Lord Chris J. Patten, Member of Parliament, UK, Oxford University Chancellor, Private Collection
* Andrey Voznesensky, Russian Poet, Private Collection
* Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian Actor, Private Collection
* Sergey Yursky, Russian Actor, Director, Writer, Private Collection
* Leonide Bazhanov, Art Director of the State Center For Modern Art of Russia, Moscow, Russia
* Gallina Nechitaylo, Academician, Advisor on science of President of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Some Paintings

External links

* [http://www.dulfan.com/ Lucien Dulfan Official Site]
* [http://www.artodessa.com/index.php?page=artistinfo&artists_id=39 Artodessa.com gallery]
* [http://www.artlondon.com/index.php?page=images&artists_id=39 Artlondon.com gallery]
* [http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/archive/bio.asp?artistID=356 Center For Book Arts site]
* [http://www.dumbodirect.com/dumbo/arts/vartists/dulfan/dulfan.html Dumbo Direct site]
* [http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/RussianNonConformists.html A World to Win]