Born 1960 in Los Angeles Currently lives and works in Los Angeles Education 1985-86 1982-1985 1978-1979 Parsons School of Design, Paris Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Parsons School of Design, New School for Social Research, New York Solo Exhibitions 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 2004 2003 2001 1999 1998 1996 1995 1985 Paintings and works on paper, Selections 2005 - 2010 Galerie Jurgen Pfaff, Shwarzenbrucke a little painting, Galleria Traghetto, Rome Paintings and works on paper, Selections 2005 - 2010 Galerie Peter Bauemler, Regensberg On Fuller Avenue, Long Beach City College Gallery, Los Angeles Dinter Fine Art, New York Galerie Biedermann, Munich Envoi, Kips Gallery, New York Trees: Painting, Photograph, Film, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn Fireworks, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles Alberi, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan Trees, Roberts/Tilton Project Room, Los Angeles Florimbi/Gipe Projects, Santa Barbara Paintings, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York Starting with the Flower, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Milk, Piss, Blood, Rust, Dirt, Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York (catalog) Paintings and Drawings, Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles Onyx Cafe, Los Angeles Selected Exhibitions 2010 American Embassy, Riga, Latvia Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID. Speak for the Trees, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA. It's All Around You, Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, California Group, Carl Berg Projects, West Hollywood 2009 From the Desert to the Sea, to all of Southern California Carl Berg Projects, West Hollywood Palms, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Paesaggi Dell'Invisibile, Galleria Traghetto, Rome and Venice Los Angeles, Washington Adams, PDC, Los Angeles (collaboration with John Millei) Broodwork, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles 2008 Tree Service, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles 2007 Portraits, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog) Mar Vista, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles Its Gouache and Gouache Only, Geoffrey Young Gallery, New Barrington, CT. Its Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY 2006 Close, Dinter Fine Art, New York Summer Hours, Dinter Fine Art, New York Gift Shop, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles 9 Generations of Otis, Otis Alumni Exhibition, Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog) Planer, Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles Impression/Ism, City of Brea Art Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 Rogue Wave II, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog) West Coast Painting, Galerie Biedermann, Munich (catalog) Opening Bloom, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston Frank Pictures, Media Rare Gallery, Los Angeles 2004 Arboretum, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles Baume, Galerie Biedermann, Munich Observations, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles Behind Door #9, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara Kunst im Palais am Lenbachplatz, Munich Crazy Thoughts Have Quick Wings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles Open Proposition, The Proposition, New York 2003 Tinseltown, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles Super Nature, Overtones, Los Angeles International Unplugged, Los Angeles Wet Paint, Brea Gallery, Los Angeles Sequel, domestic setting, Los Angeles L.A Hot, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston 2002 Garner Tullis, New York Utopian Grids, Coagula Gallery, Los Angeles 2000 08 - 30 - 00, Gallery 138, Kent State University, Ohio Urban Hymns, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles Summertime, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York 1999 Stretching the Intimate, Motta Gallery, London Mod, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York Selected Works, Atelier Richard Tullis, Santa Barbara 1998 Over the Mantle, Over the Couch, Tricia Collins, New York Cine Sur, La Paz, Bolivia Viktoria Reveals Secrets, Hanover 1997 Duremos, Let's Last, Art and Idea, Mexico City Prima Vera Video, Universidad Buenos Aires, Argentina Viktoria Reveals Secrets, Gallery 242, New York domestic setting, Post, Los Angeles Cereijido Summer Video Festival, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York Conversion, Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York 1996 Hodgepodge Lodge East, Hovel, New York Group Show, Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York Green, Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles 1995 Painting Beyond the Idea, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog) Cover to Cover, The Work Space, New York Pink and Innocent, Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York Group Exhibition, domestic setting, Los Angeles The Spirit of the Matter, Tricia Collins - Grand Salon, New York A Working Title, E-space, Los Angeles 1994 a perhaps hand, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles L.A. Mail, Jose Friere Gallery, New York 1993 Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York 1992 Sammons Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX Bibliography Apice, Marzia, "a little painting review" Exibart.com, April 2010 Link Reynolds, Susan Salter, 'Los Angeles Trees,' by Lucas Reiner, Los Angeles Times. December 7, 2008 Grider, Nicholas, "Minimalism, Theatricality and You," Artslant, October 9, 2007 Frank, Peter, "Object Lessons," LA Weekly, October 3, 2007 Frank, Peter, Museum Pick: Planer: A Contemporary take on Landscape, L.A. Weekly, March, 2006 Nys Dambrodt, Shana, made in los angeles, Tema Celeste, January/February, 2006 Nys Dambrodt, Shana, Firework Paintings, Lucas Reiner at Carl Berg, Modern Painters, November 2005 Heise, Rudiger, West Coast Painting, Applaus Kultur Magazin, July/August, 2005 Schiechtl, Sylvia, Lucas Reiner Alberi, Exibart.com, Edition 3/11/05 Link David Pagel, "Rogue Wave", Los Angeles Times, July, 2005 Kristine Newhouse, "Sequel" at Domestic Setting, Artnet, April, 2003 Eve Wood, "Implied Narratives", Artnet, February, 2003 Peter Frank, "Art Pick of the Week", LA Weekly, February, 2003 Charlene Roth, "Urban Hymns at the Luckman", Artweek, 2000 Helga Fitzbar, "Mod", zingmagazine, Volume 3, Winter 2000, pgs. 239-240 Leonard Bravo, "Lucas Reiner: Griffin Contemporary", zingmagazine, Vol. 2, Fall 1998, pgs. 236-237 Mat Gleason, "Lucas Reiner: Poetry in Motion", bleach magazine, June 1998, pgs. 1 - 6. Steve Mumford, "Lucas Reiner: milk, piss, blood, rust, dirt" zingmagazine, winter/spring 1997 Tobey Crockett, "Lucas Reiner at Bennett Roberts", Art in America, May 1996, p. 116 Julie Hormel, "Eco-Transcendence", Visions Arts Quarterly, Fall 1993, p. 37 Mario Cutujar, "Painting Beyond the Idea", Art Scene, Sept. 1995, pgs. 14-15 David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1995, p. 4 David DiMichele, "Painting Beyong the Idea..." Artweek, November 1995, p. 23 Peter Frank,"Art Pick of the Week", L.A. Weekly, November 24, 1995, p.132 Teaching 2007 - Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Visiting Artist 2010 - Art Academy of Latvia, Riga 2009 - Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Cleveland 2009 - Hola, Los Angeles 2008 - Santa Ana College, Santa Ana 2008 - Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles 2007 - IUAV, Venice, Italy 2007 - Art Center College of Design, Pasadena 2007 - Farmlab 1995 - Woodbury College, Los Angeles Collections American Embassy, Riga, Latvia Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Jumex La Coleccion, Mexico Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung, Munich West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania Awards Lester Horten Award for Scenic Design, 2003