Lucien Dulfan

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 an illustrator for the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Iskra".^[4] Lucien Dulfan emigrated with his family to the United States in 1990, settling in New York City.^[5]

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

• 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]

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]