Attila Richard Lukacs (b. 1962) is a one of the most renowned Canadian Painters of his generation, and is known predominantly for his paintings of male skinheads, primates and American military cadets during the early 1990s. These brutally explicit works shocked and provoked a generation of painters and critics alike. 

 Lukacs was born in Alberta in 1962 and studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver. His early work was shown in the The Young Romantics, a well-known Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition in 1985. This show launched the Lukacs’ career and also the careers of a small group of his peers, leading them onto international acclaim. and has since lived and worked as an artist in Berlin, New York, and Vancouver. His paintings frequently reference the historical compositions and themes of David and Caravaggio as well as the compositional devices of the miniature painters and illustrators of India and the Middle East. 

Best known for works that depict exaggerated male figures, such as skinheads and military cadets, Lukacs has also developed an extensive and critical body of abstract work. His latest series, Vessels of the Infernal Beings Incarnate, sees these two worlds blended seamlessly together in a tantric but irreverent Lotusland.