PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Solo Exhibits
2026: The Crucible, PEC Arts Council, Picton ON
2024: Solo Exhibition, Maison Depoivre Gallery, Picton ON
2023: The Green Suitcase, Redhead Gallery, Toronto ON
2023: Solo Exhibiton, Maison Depoivre Gallery, Picton ON
2021: Strange Beauty, Remote Gallery, Toronto ON
2019: Seen and Unseen, Carbon Art Gallery, Picton Ontario
2018: Unlikely Impulse with Nicole Collins, OUR Gallery, Toronto
2018: The Inner Life of Images, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
2015: Oneirism, Studio 192 Spadina, Toronto
2014: The Flag, The Stride Art Gallery Association, Calgary, Alberta
2013: Accretion, Neubacher Shor Contemporary
2013: Spatial Interrogation, 26 McKenzie Cres., Toronto
2013: Zamolxis Loves You, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Romania
2012: Bogdan Luca, Münster Art Galerie - Münster, Germany
2012: SPOLIA, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto
2011: The Roving Iconist, Le Gallery
2010: Unmoorings, Le Gallery, Toronto
2010: Unmoorings, University of Toronto Art Centre
“Luca’s work resists realism and challenges easy resolve.”
Shakuntala Fernandopulle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025: Art in the County, Prince Edward Arts Council, Picton ON
2022: Annual Juried Exhibition, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville ON
2022: Why do you create?, Visual Arts Mississauga
2021: VAM 43, Visual Arts Mississauga
2018: SWARM, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton ON
2018: Project 31, OCAD University, Toronto
2017: Guidance, Hamilton Artists Inc.
2016: Off the Hook, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie ON
2016: Wall to wall, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington ON
2016: Consensus, Midland Cultural Centre, Midland ON
2016: Summer ’16, PROJECT Gallery, Toronto
2016: Spaces Imagined, Markham House, Toronto
2015: Why the @#&! Do You Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2015: Photo Op, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2014: For the Record: Roadmaps & Diaries, Mississauga, ON
2014: Process2, Artscape Young Place, Toronto
2013: Art Transparenz, Galerie Zeugma, Cologne, Germany
2013: DRAWING 2013, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2012: Art Spin Finale, Toronto
2012: 60 Painters, Toronto
2011: Highly Desirable, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto
2011: Inaugural Exhibition, Neubacher Shor Contemporary
2011: Le Sept, Le Gallery, Toronto
2011: Merge, Art Gallery of Ontario
“His paintings are meant to reflect the fragmented way in which we perceive and recreate a subjective version of reality ... aiming to unsettle the viewer.”
Lennart Maschmeyer
Awards
2026: Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies Grant
2024: Ontario Arts Council Midcareer Grant
2022: Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant
2017: Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2013: Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2012: Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2011: Timeraiser Foundation Purchase Award
2010: University of Toronto: Student Engagement in the Arts
2009: University of Toronto Fellowship
2009: Timeraiser Foundation Purchase Award
2008: University of Toronto Fellowship
2006: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
2005: Pirelli Relativity Challenge: first prize
2005: Carol and Morton Rapp Foundation Award
“I won’t just teach you to draw or paint,
I will change the way you see the world”.
Bogdan Luca
Teaching
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Sheridan Institute of Technology, School of Creative Arts and Animation
2018–Current
Sessional Instructor: Courses taught at the undergraduate level: Digital Imaging, Figurative Drawing, Painting: Media & Materials, Introduction to Painting, Life Drawing Studio, Interpretive Drawing, Advanced Painting Studio
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OCAD University, Faculty of Art Drawing and Painting
2010–Current
Sessional Instructor: Courses taught at the undergraduate level: Painting and Digital Imaging, Critical Responses to Contemporary Figuration, Advanced Painting: Figurative, Advanced Drawing Studio: Figurative, Drawing I, Introduction to Painting, Nature and Culture in Contemporary Painting, Creative Process: Painting, Figure Drawing, Drawing: Portraiture, Intermediate Painting Studio, Anatomy for Artists
OCAD Faculty Association Contract Negotiation Sessional Representative
OCAD Faculty Association Director at large
OCAD Senator
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OCAD University, School of Continuing Studies
2010–Current
Instructor: Figure Painting, Digital Painting, Portraiture Fundamentals, Oil Painting Techniques, Content and Composition, Experimental Drawing, The Narrative Body, Watercolour Studio, Intermediate Painting Studio
Art Gallery of Ontario
2012–Current
Part Time Instructor: Exploratory Drawing, Intaglio, Intro to Sculpture, Painting for Beginners, Drawing for Beginners, Abstract Painting, Giant Painting, Life Drawing in the Galleries, Traveller’s Sketchbook, Life Drawing, Watercolour Explorations
Residencies
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2026: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT USA
2014: The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard Norway
2013: Exquisite Broken Circle: Suddenly a Chora, Averill Park, NY. With Arts Letters & Numbers and David Gersten
2013: AUTOCENTER Academy: Berlin. With Jorinde Voigt and Dirk Bell
Fairs
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2025: The Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto
2023: The Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto
2019: CLIO Art Fair, NYC, New York
2018: Art Takes Miami, SCOPE Art Fair Miami Beach FL
2014: Art Cologne, Cologne Germany
2012: Art Toronto with NSC
2010: Art Toronto with the Art Gallery of Ontario
2009: The Artist Project. Liberty Grand, Toronto
Education
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2008–10: Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2003–07: Bachelor of Fine Arts, OCAD - Drawing and painting
1997–00: Diploma, Sheridan College - Classical animation