1959 Born in Zürich, Switzerland
1976 College in Zürich (Kantonales Lehrerseminar)
1984 MFA The San Francisco Art Institute (Photography)


Individual Exhibitions:

2006
Lukas Felzmann: LANDFALL, ACAF Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria, Egypt

2005
Lukas Felzmann: LANDFALL, Schloss Bonndorf, Germany
Cluster, Palo Alto Art Center

2004
Lukas Felzmann: LANDFALL, Fotozentrum Winterthur, Swiss Foundation of Photography
The Farallon Island Project, Mills College Art Museum
FELZMANN, Photograpien, Gallerie Stasia Hutter, Basel

2000
Lukas Felzmann, Photographs, McKesson Building, S.F.

1999
River's Edge,Photographs and Sculptures, Hosfelt Gallery,
A New Biennial, Festival International de Arte Ciudad de Medellin

1995
Cultura y Naturaleza, Sensores de Vida, Museo de Antioquia, Columbia
Counterspace, Special Project Space, Haines Gallery S.F.

1992
Muse and Restraint, Installation at the Friends of Photography S.F.
Fragments of Flight, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco
The Silent Flight, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia

1991
Room for Endangered Species, Headlands Center for the Arts
Library, HCA Room for St.John of the Cross, HCA

1990
Sculptures and Photographs, Installation at Southern Exposure Gallery, S.F.

1989
Fall and Desire, Installation at XS Gallery, Nevada

1986
Songs of Land and Skin, Show & Tell Gallery, San Francisco

1985
Lukas Felzmann, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Lukas Felzmann, Photographs, University of Nevada, Reno

1983
New Work, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

1982
Lukas Felzmann, Photographs, Stillights Gallery, SFAI

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2006
Book, Hosfelt Gallery
2004
être, United Nations, Geneva
Images Du Monde: Une Histoire De La Cartographie, Museé Historique de Lausanne
2003
PAPER, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2002
Night Skies & Imaginary Coordinates, Palo Alto Art Center
2001
Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors, San Francisco Camerawork
DepictingAbsence/Implying Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
1999
Inaugural Show, Cantor Art Center, Stanford Museum of Art
1998
Picturing Modernity, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
pFORMactive ACTS, Walter/McBean Gallery, SFAI
Give and Take, San Francisco Arts and Education Project
1997
Made in Switzerland, Musée de L'Elysée , Lausanne, Switzerland
1996
50 Years Photography at SFAI, Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, S.F.
Inaugural Show, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
1995
Fragile Landscapes,Center for Photography Woodstock New York
1994
Fragments of Flight, Bedford Art Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts
1993
Miniatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco
1992
Chainreaction, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
1991
Photoworks 91, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, traveling to Beyerd Museum, Breda (catalogue)
Image/Object/Place, Photographic Installations, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oliver Art Center, (catalogue)
1990
Camera Obscured, Rincon Hill Spectrum Gallery, S.F.
Circus, Show & Tell Gallery, San Francisco
1989
Beyond the Frame, 9 Photo Installations, Richmond Art Center
Objects of my Affection, Show & Tell Gallery, San Francisco
Visitenkarte, Works from the Collection, Stiftung für die Photographie, Kunsthaus Zürich
1988
8 Photographers, 55 Mercer, New York
Federal Grant Finalists, Kornhaus Bern, Switzerland
El Dia De Los Muertos, Mission Cultural Center, S.F.
1986
Recent Acquisitions, Stiftung für die Photographie, Kunsthaus Zürich
Artists Against Apartheid, Galleria de la Rasa, S.F.
1985
Masters 85, Pier 1, Fort Mason Center, S.F.
1984
Group Show, San Francisco Camerawork
Five Photographers, New Work, Frog Prince Gallery, S.F


Grants:

2003
The Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York
2002
Federal Department of the Interior, Office for Culture, Switzerland (Werkbeitrag, Bundesamt für Kultur)
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Photography
1993
WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation) NEA RegionalFellowship
1992
Ferguson Grant, The Friends of Photography
1991
Headlands Center for the Arts, Residency and Work Grant
1988
Eidgenössisches Stipendium für angewandte Kunst 1988


Teaching:

1994-2007
Lecturer of Art, Stanford University
2003-2004
Graduate Adviser,Mills College
1991-2003
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Insitute
1992-2001
Lecturer, Photography/Core, California College of the Arts
1998-2000
Instructor, San Francisco Arts Education Project
1990/1993
Artists in Education Program, Southern Exposure Gallery

Collections:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
Stanford Museum of Art
San Francisco Art Institute
Rene DiRosa Collection, Napa
Foundation Herzog, Basel
Wells Fargo Bank
Private Collections


Bibliography (click on highlighted text for Reviews):

Denkbilder/Thought Images, Mark Welzel PARKETT, No.76 2006
Images du Monde ; Une Histoire De La Cartographie. Catalogue, Museé Historique de Lausanne
LANDFALL by Lukas Felzmann, 160 pgs /Hardcover, Lars Müller Publishers ,
Lukas' Evangelium, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 25, 2004, Nr. 4b by Daniele Muscionico
Föhrennadeln als bedeutsame Muster, Tages Anzeiger, February 25, 2004, by Nadine Olonetzky
Das Wechselspiel Mensch-Natur, Limmattaler Tagblatt, February 19, 2004, by Suleika Baun Saitner
Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors, Camerawork Journal, vol.28no2
Lukas Felzmann, by Anna Novakov, artpress, 225/June 1997
Made in Switzerland, 1997 Book from the collections of the Swiss Federation ZYZZYVA, Spring 1997
see, A Journal of Visual Culture, Issue 1:3 1995
Camerawork Journal, From Image to Object by Terri Cohn vol.21/no.1 1994
ink 13/14 Ghosts (cover and inside art) S.F. State Univ. 1994
WESTAF catalogue 1993
Artweek, The Calls of the Wild, "Lukas Felzmann at Olga Dollar Gallery", by Terri Cohn, January 21, 1993, Vol. 24.
Photographie in der Schweiz Von 1840 bis Heute, (book), Bentli Verlag Bern, 1992
Visions, Room Shots "Image/Object/Place: Photography and Installation" at California College of Arts and Crafts, by Rebecca Snyder, Summer 1992
Collisions and Transformations Poems by Leslie Simon (cover art)
Photoworks 91, Catalogue, Oude Kerk/Beyerd Museum, Netherlands
Artweek, Towards a New Installation, by John Rapko Oct.17.1991, Vol.22#34.
Bay Guardian, Photo Obfuscation, September 12, 1990
Bastard Review, 3/4 San Francisco, 1990 (Featured Artist in Literary Journal)
Artweek, A Complex Gestalt, by Jamie Brunson, June 1989, Vol. 20/Nr. 23
Visions, A Report from the Bay Area, by Maria Porges, Summer 1989
Contemporania, San Francisco, NR. 8, September 1989
Artweek, Fever Dreams and Fragile Monuments, by Mark Durant, 5.88 Vol19#20
Shift, Picturing the Landscape, by Maria Porges, Nov. 1988, Vol. 2/Nr. 4
Beef Magazine, September 1988
Photo Metro, April 1986, Vol. 4/Number 38
Masters 85, Exhibition Catalog SFAI
Photographie, April 1984, Switzerland
Photo Metro, Dualities, June 1983

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