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Kristin Lucas was born in 1968. She received a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union for Advancement in Science and Art, New York, in 1994. Lucas has been awarded numerous artist-in-residencies, through the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York; Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program; the P.S.1 National Studio Program and Harvestworks, New York; and the ARCUS A.I.R. Program, Ibaraki, Japan, among others. During the summer and fall of 2000, Lucas participated in the World Views residency program on the 91st Floor of the World Trade Center’s Tower 1, where she produced two major site-specific video works.

Lucas uses her camera as a diaristic device, into which she unloads her anecdotal, performative mini-dramas. Her work resonates with a sense of social isolation and alienation from the computer/television/electronic media that she posits as a surrogate for personal interaction. The backdrop to Lucas' work is the empty world of day-time television, cable shopping channels and shopping malls.

Lucas' work has been exhibited in the 1997 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, Artists Space, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; steirischer herbst 9, Graz, Austria; the 7e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, Switzerland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Dunedin Public Gallery, New Zealand, among others, and at festivals in Mexico City, Montreal, New York and San Francisco. She has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; Windows, Brussels, Belgium; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria; and FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, England, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, 2003 [Plug in], Basel, Switzerland, 2003 "Resonances", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2005 "Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art", Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, 2005