Lucas Johnson
Lucas Johnson was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Southern California. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the José Luis Cuevas Museum of Drawings, Mexico, D.F.; the Toledo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico; the Museum of Modern Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel; the National Museum, Warsaw, Poland; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, to name a few. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1987, and it has also been included in many museum exhibitions. In 2006 the Houston Artists Fund published the book, The Art and Life of Lucas Johnson, with a preface by Walter Hopps, the founding curator of the Menil Collection, an essay by art historian Edmund P. Pillsbury,and a chronology by Patricia Covo Johnson.