Filmmaker, Artist, Curator

Lynn Tjernan Lukkas is internationally recognized for her films, large-scale media installations, collaborative media performance projects with opera, dance, and theater, and her media-arts curatorial projects. Lukkas’ work addresses some of the most current concerns in contemporary art and life exploring cultural and social power dynamics and their ability to form one’s individual subjectivity and identity. The cinematic scale of her projects and lush visual poetics foreground the complexity of contemporary human experience. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the USA in 1956, Lukkas received a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. Lukkas is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation among others. Lukkas’ curatorial project, Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, co-curated with Howard Oransky, had a three-year international tour (2015 – 2019) that included, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; and the Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco. Lukkas currently lives in Minneapolis and Luxembourg City.