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{{Short description|American painter (born 1942)}}
{{Infobox Artist

| name = Lucien Dulfan
{{COI|biography|date=October 2015}}
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{{Infobox artist
| birthname = Lucien Dulfan
| name = Lucien Dulfan
| birthdate = [[February 14]], [[1942]]
| image = LucienDulfan.jpg
| location = [[Frunze]], [[Kyrgyzstan]]
| birth_name = Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan
| nationality = [[USA]]
| field = [[Painting]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|2|14|df=y}}
| training = Odessa State Art Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
| birth_place = [[Bishkek|Frunze]], [[Kyrgyz SSR]]
| nationality = American
| movement = Dulfanism; [[abstract / figurative art]]
| works = ''Kiss'', ''Space''
| field = [[Painting]]
| awards = {{awd|First prize for painting|1975}}
| training = [[Grekov Odessa Art school]]
| movement = Dulfanism
| works =
| awards = First prize (painting, 1975)<br>USSR Ministry of Culture
| spouse = Dinah Leonidovna Dulfan
}}
}}


'''Lucien Dulfan''', ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born [[1942]], in [[Bishkek|Frunze]], [[Kyrgyzstan]]) is an American conceptual artist. When working in former [[USSR]] he was considered [[Soviet Nonconformist Art| Nonconformist]] artist.
'''Lucien Dulfan''' ({{langx|ru|Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан}}) (born 14 February 1942, [[Bishkek|Frunze]], [[Kyrgyz SSR]]) is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the [[USSR]], he was considered a [[Soviet Nonconformist Art|Nonconformist]] artist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/dodge-wing-lower-level/odessas-second-avant-garde-city-and-myth#.V2mjWeYrJE4|title=Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth &#124; Zimmerli Art Museum|website=www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artukraine.com.ua/eng/a/evreyskaya-tematika-v-tvorchestve-odesskih-hudozhnikov-hihhhi-vekov-ot-leonida-pasternaka-do-aleksandra-roytburda/|title=The Jewish theme in the works of Odessa artists of the XIX-XXI centuries: from Leonid Pasternak to Aleksandr Roitburd|website=ART Ukraine|date=25 October 2011 }}</ref>

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 ==

1975 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).

==Some Publications ==

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

== 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 Shostakowich]], 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


==Biography==
Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in [[Bishkek]] (then called Frunze, capital of [[Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic]]) during [[World War II]], where his family was evacuated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://msio.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=391|title=Hall 4. The Legend of the Odessa Underground Valentin Khrushch and Stanislav Sychev|website=msio.com.ua}}</ref> The family returned to [[Odessa]] in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the [[Grekov Odessa Art school]] from which he graduated in 1963. He became a member of the [[Artists' Union of the USSR]] in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://msio.com.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=258|title=Евгений Голубовский Из истории одесского авангарда: "ЗАБОРНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА"|website=msio.com.ua}}</ref> Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in [[New York City]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rozhon|first=Tracie|date=1997-03-30|title=Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/30/realestate/starting-a-new-life-overlooking-the-hudson.html|access-date=2020-07-05|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


== Some Paintings ==
== Work ==
Lucien Dulfan works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".<ref>{{Cite web|title=STRANGE TIME. Independent international online exhibition|url=https://strangetime.art/strange-time-independent-international-online-exhibition/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Strange Time|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Lucien Dulfan Parker and Parker Art|url=https://www.parkerandparkerart.com/Artists/Lucien-Dulfan|access-date=2020-06-16|website=ParkerandParkerArt|language=en}}</ref>


==Exhibitions==
<gallery>
* 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.segodnya.ua/regions/odessa/v-krupneyshem-muzee-ssha-otkrylas-vystavka-odesskih-sovetskih-nonkonformistov-525074.html|title=В крупнейшем музее США открылась выставка одесских советских нонконформистов|website=www.segodnya.ua|accessdate=Aug 25, 2020}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/bringing-art-odessa-light|title=Bringing Art from Odessa to Light &#124; ASEEES|website=www.aseees.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/a/odessa-art-ny/1909697.html|title=Художники Одессы в Нью-Джерси: ностальгия в контексте трагедии|website=ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ|accessdate=Aug 25, 2020}}</ref>
Image:kissinwatermellon.jpg|Kiss in the Watermellon, oil on canvas, 1992 (55"x70")
*2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyartbeat.com/nyablog/2012/03/the-fountain-art-fair-2012-or-street-art-with-a-decorative-flair/|title=The Fountain Art Fair 2012 or 'Street Art' with a Decorative Flair? &#124; NYABlog &#124; New York Art Beat|accessdate=Aug 25, 2020}}</ref>
Image:Untitled2.jpg|Screw number 3, oil on canvas, 2001 (46"x55")
*2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day-after-day/lucien-dulfans-space-mythogony|title=Lucien Dulfan's "Space. Mythogony" &#124; The Day newspaper|accessdate=Aug 25, 2020}}</ref>
Image:KissinSpace.jpg‎|Kiss in Space, fabric collage, oil on canvas, 1999 (55"x70")
*1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa.|url=https://go-od.in.ua/en/event/5dc4fadc1a3478021998d6b9/lucien-dulfan-03-december-2019|access-date=2020-06-18|website=go-od.in.ua}}</ref>
</gallery>


==Selected collections==
Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dulphan Lucien|url=http://msio.com.ua/en/authors/39-authors-d/285-dulfan-lucien|access-date=2020-06-16|website=msio.com.ua}}</ref> and the Nancy Dodge Collection at [[Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University]] in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]].,<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/dodge-wing-lower-level/odessas-second-avant-garde-city-and-myth#.V2v7CuYrJE4|title=Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth &#124; Zimmerli Art Museum|website=www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu}}</ref> and [[Tretyakov Gallery|Tretyakov gallery]] in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey <ref>{{Cite web|title=Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey|url= https://grandmuseum.ru/artmuseumtomsk/dulfan-lyusen-veniaminovich/potseluy-iudy/}}</ref>


== Publications ==
*1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"|url=https://garagemca.org/en/catalogue/L36504|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Garage}}</ref>
*1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective|url=https://garagemca.org/en/catalogue/L33859|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Garage}}</ref>


==References==
== External links ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.dulfan.com/ Lucien Dulfan Official Site]
* {{commons category-inline}}
* [http://www.artodessa.com/index.php?page=artistinfo&artists_id=39 Arodessa.com gallery]
* {{official website|http://www.luciendulfan.com/ }}
* [http://www.artlondon.com/index.php?page=images&artists_id=39 Artlondon.com gallery]
* [http://www.artodessa.com/index.php?page=artistinfo&artists_id=39 Artodessa.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]
* [http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/RussianNonConformists.html A World to Win]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725152107/http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/archive/bio.asp?artistID=356 Center For Book Arts site]
* [http://www.thechambersgallery.co.uk/art.html?page=browse_by_artist&artID=47 The Chambers Gallery Official Website]
* [http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=19493 Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine]
* [http://artukraine.com.ua/a/smutnaya-alchba-3-lyusen-dulfan/#.V2vyIuYrJE4 interview with Dulfan (in Russian)]
* [https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day-after-day/lucien-dulfans-space-mythogony Lucien Dulfan’s “Space. Mythogony”]
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Latest revision as of 15:54, 2 November 2024

Lucien Dulfan
Born
Lucien Veniaminovich Dulfan

(1942-02-14) 14 February 1942 (age 82)
Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR
NationalityAmerican
EducationGrekov Odessa Art school
Known forPainting
MovementDulfanism
SpouseDinah Leonidovna Dulfan
AwardsFirst prize (painting, 1975)
USSR Ministry of Culture

Lucien Dulfan (Russian: Люсьен Вениаминович Дульфан) (born 14 February 1942, Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.[1][2]

Biography

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Lucien Dulfan was born in 1942 in Bishkek (then called Frunze, capital of Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic) during World War II, where his family was evacuated.[3] The family returned to Odessa in 1946. After finishing his school he was accepted to the Grekov Odessa Art school from which he graduated in 1963. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1973, while working as a graphic artist for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".[4] Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City.[5]

Work

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Lucien Dulfan works with objects and installation art and creates so called "wooden paintings".[6][7]

Exhibitions

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  • 2014 — Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth (Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA)[8][9][10]
  • 2012 — Broadway Gallery at Fountain Art Fair (New York, USA)[11]
  • 2011 — Space. Mythogony (Gallery Tadzio, Kyiv, Ukraine)[12]
  • 1989 — Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, USSR[13]

Selected collections

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Dulfan's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Odessa Modern Art[14] and the Nancy Dodge Collection at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.,[9][15] and Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey [16]

Publications

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  • 1994 — Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"[17]
  • 1992 — Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  2. ^ "The Jewish theme in the works of Odessa artists of the XIX-XXI centuries: from Leonid Pasternak to Aleksandr Roitburd". ART Ukraine. 25 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Hall 4. The Legend of the Odessa Underground Valentin Khrushch and Stanislav Sychev". msio.com.ua.
  4. ^ "Евгений Голубовский Из истории одесского авангарда: "ЗАБОРНАЯ ВЫСТАВКА"". msio.com.ua.
  5. ^ Rozhon, Tracie (1997-03-30). "Starting a New Life Overlooking the Hudson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  6. ^ "STRANGE TIME. Independent international online exhibition". Strange Time. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  7. ^ "Lucien Dulfan Parker and Parker Art". ParkerandParkerArt. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  8. ^ "В крупнейшем музее США открылась выставка одесских советских нонконформистов". www.segodnya.ua. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Bringing Art from Odessa to Light | ASEEES". www.aseees.org.
  10. ^ "Художники Одессы в Нью-Джерси: ностальгия в контексте трагедии". ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ. Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  11. ^ "The Fountain Art Fair 2012 or 'Street Art' with a Decorative Flair? | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  12. ^ "Lucien Dulfan's "Space. Mythogony" | The Day newspaper". Retrieved Aug 25, 2020.
  13. ^ "Lucien Dulfan 03 December 2019 — GO-OD — mobile application Afisha Odessa". go-od.in.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  14. ^ "Dulphan Lucien". msio.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  15. ^ "Odessa's Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth | Zimmerli Art Museum". www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
  16. ^ "Tomskiy Oblastnoy Khudozhestvennyy Muzey".
  17. ^ "Artists to "Literaturnaya Gazeta"". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  18. ^ "Glastnost Under Glass. Gorbachev from the artist's perspective". Garage. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
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