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Lucas Samaras
Artist's Name: Lucas Samaras
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1936
Nationality: US
City: New York

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Lucas Samaras was already known as a sculptor, painter, and performance artist when he began experimenting with photography. In his early work, which includes multi-media assemblages, he often included images of himself. The persistent use of himself as a subject has led one critic to remark that "Samaras's almost obsessional self-observation extends past narcissism toward a physical understanding of himself." In 1973 Samaras discovered that the wet dyes of Polaroid prints were highly malleable, allowing him to create what he calls "Photo-Transformations." He made these images in the modest New York apartment that also served as his studio. Describing himself as a "Peeping Tom," Samaras makes and remakes his own image to create a multi-faceted portrait of himself. These self-portrait photographs are distorted, terrifying, and often mutilated images. (The Getty)

important exhibitions from Lucas Samaras

Exhibition Location City Country Date
53. Biennale Venedig 2009 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 07.06.2009
Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 15.01.2009
Off the Wall Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 01.07.2010
MOCA's First Thirty Years The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA Los Angeles US 15.11.2009
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Irwin, Thomas Nozkowski, Lucas Samaras The Pace Gallery 534 West 25th St New York US 06.11.2010
Isole mai Trovate | Islands never found Palazzo Ducale Genua IT 13.03.2010
Das Achte Feld Museum Ludwig Köln DE 19.08.2006
Kompass: Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin DE 11.03.2011
The Last Grand Tour Museum of Cycladic Art, Athen Athen GR 15.04.2011
Vortexhibition Polyphonica Henry Art Gallery Seattle US 03.10.2009

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Galleries representing
Lucas Samaras:

Galerie Xippas
Hohenthal und Bergen
Moeller Fine Art New York
Moeller Fine Art, Berlin
Richard Gray Gallery
Stephen Friedman Gallery
The Pace Gallery 32E 57th street
The Pace Gallery 510 W 25th
The Pace Gallery 534 West 25th St
The Pace Gallery 545 West 22nd St
Waddington Galleries
Xippas Gallery, Athen

Collections representing
Lucas Samaras

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Denver Art Museum
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Storm King Art Center
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
The Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art