About Me
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Lucas Bononi (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is a contemporary painter based in New York. Trained in expressionism at the Academy of Art University San Francisco, where he earned his BFA in painting, and in naturalism at Grand Central Atelier, he now teaches its core program. Bononi’s paintings intricately weave the human form with elements of nature, using nuanced color and light to create a marbling effect that blends flesh with natural landscapes such as rivers, forests, and fire. This interplay seeks to reconnect viewers with primal perception through sensation rather than symbolism, inviting a renewed attentiveness to the physical world. His work challenges conventions in contemporary figurative painting by exploring the tension between figuration and abstraction, where forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure within the same visual field.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 Nature of Light, Exposed Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2024 Traditions & Modernity Art Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia
2022 The Forest, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Satellite Show | Art Basel Week, Kyle Hamilton Gallery, Miami
2021 Still, High Line Nine Gallery, New York, NY
Birds, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Art Essex, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
FIVE, Arcadia Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibit, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY
Locals Only SF, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Vision, Blackbird Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Magic of Realism, Haynes Galleries, Franklin, TN
International Biennial, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, WI
2018 The New Nude, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibit, Chengdu CLATIA Gallery, Chengdu, China
10 Years in Wonderland, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Invitational, Skye Gallery, Aspen, CO
2016 Group Exhibit, European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain
2015 Wonderland Exhibition by 111 Minna Gallery, Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
2014 Clyde & Co’s Art Project, Hang Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2023 The Graham Stephan Show, Feature on YouTube
2023 CNBC Make It Interview, CNBC LLC A Division of NBCUniversal
2023 Soulful Connections in Art & Life: Interview, CREATE! Magazine Issue 34
2019 Front Cover, October Edition, American Art Collector Magazine
AWARDS
2018 1st Place, Portrait Society of America Annual Members Competition
2017 Purchase Prize & Best in Show (Permanent Collection), Annual Exhibition, SCNY, NY