Carol Lukitsch

Carol Lukitsch has had a peripatetic life and the landscape of each place she has lived has become part of her body of artwork.

Growing up in Colorado was perhaps her strongest influence, followed by life on a small island in Japan, later daily morning walks alongside the Potomac River in Washington DC and now experiencing the island environs of Sarasota, Florida where she and her husband have finally landed. Water and movement have been continuing underlying visual currents in her abstract paintings, which seem to move and flow.

Ms. Lukitsch received an MFA from The University of Maryland, College Park where she studied with Sam Gilliam, and a BFA Summa Cum Laude from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. 

She was awarded a Fulbright Grant and was a Senior Lecturer at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey for two years.  Ms. Lukitsch taught drawing, painting, and design at several colleges and universities. She served as Curator/Director of Exhibitions at Arlington Arts Center (now Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington) in Northern Virginia.

Ms. Lukitsch received numerous fellowships and was a painter in residence at The Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York; The VCCA at Sweetbriar, Virginia and The Hilai Colony for the Arts in Ma’alot, Israel.

She has exhibited extensively both internationally and in the United States. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Montecatini, Italy; The State Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Ankara, Turkey; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, Washington, DC; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, Washington, DC; The University Health System, San Antonio, Texas and The United States Embassy in Panama.