Lucas Samaras was born in the small town of Kastoria in Macedonia, Greece, 1936. He moved to New York in 1948, and graduated from Rutgers University College of Arts and Sciences, New Jersey in 1959. His first solo exhibition in New York was held at the Reuben Gallery in 1959.
He was already a recognized sculptor, painter, and performance artist when he began experimenting with photography in the early seventies, the work for which he has become best known. His work is in the collections of many museums world wide, including: The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Gallery (London) and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, (Japan). His first retrospective was in 1972 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other major solo exhibitions include: The Pace Gallery, New York (1974) Denver Art Museum, Denver (1981-83), Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (1991), Galerie Xippas Paris, France (1997) and Waddington Galleries, London (2004). A major exhibition of his self-portraits opened at the Whitney Museum in 2003. He was the 2002 winner of the American Academy Award in Art.
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