Lucas Korte currently resides in South Bend, IN where he teaches drawing and painting at the University of Notre Dame. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame after studying biology at Wayne State University and fine art at the College for Creative Studies, both in Detroit. His work deals with the nonhuman generally, originally focusing on invertebrate forms as revealed by the science of biology, with an aim towards questioning the figure of the human and the central position it has held in the universe in Western culture. His current work deals with the inorganic, examining and pushing notions of inanimate matter as active, productive, and consequential in the universe, both for itself and for human life. His work has been exhibited nationally in Detroit, South Bend, and Chicago.

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Selected Exhibitions

  • Free Wet Hugz: 94th Annual All Media Exhibition, 2016, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor (group show)
  • Toxicity is Agency, 2016, Sights and Sounds Gallery, South Bend IN (solo show)
  • GRiT Vol. III, 2016, The Baltimore Gallery, Detroit MI (group show)
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2016 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (group show)
  • Strange Matter, 2015 - COTSCRC (solo show)
  • Part Two: Second Year MFA Exhibition, 2015 - Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame (group show)
  • Solarium, 2015, Solarium Gallery, University of Notre Dame (group show)
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2014 - Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame (collaboration with MFA candidate Jakob Ollinger) (group show)
  • New Faces, 2013 - Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame (group show)
  • CCS Student Exhibition, 2013  - Taubman Center, College for Creative Studies (group show)
  • Telling Stories, 2013 - Starkweather Arts (group show)
  • One Night Stand, 2013 - Re:View Contemporary (group show)
  • Chimera, 2013 - Starkweather Arts (group show)
  • Painting in the Expanded Field, 2012 - Passenger, Ford Field (group show)
  • Between Places, 2012 - 2018 North Chicago (group show)
  • CCS Student Exhibition, 2012 - Taubman Center, College for Creative Studies (group show)
  • Kant Stop Believin', - 2012 Northend Studios (group show)
  • CCS Student Exhibition, 2011 - Taubman Center, College for Creative Studies (group show)
  • Help Thy Kingdom Resolve, - 2011 Russel Industrial (group show)

Education

  • 2013-2016, MFA painting & drawing - University of Notre Dame
  • 2011-2013, College for Creative Studies
  • 2002-2005, Bachelor's of Arts, Biological Sciences - Wayne State University
  • 1999-2001, Associate's of Liberal Arts - Macomb Community College

Teaching Experience

  • 2016-Present, Visiting Assistant Professor, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Painting, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
  • 2016, Adjunct Instructor, Drawing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
  • 2014-2016, Instructor of Record, Drawing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN
  • 2015, Artist Instructor, MIxed Media, High School Art Apprentice Program, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame
  • 2013-2015, Guest Instructor, Figure Drawing Workshop Series, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame
  • 2013-2014, Teaching Assistant, Painting, Drawing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN
  • 2013, Teaching Assistant, Painting, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI


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