Lucas Murgida b. Newburyport, MA, 1976 Current Artist-In-Residence at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, Orange County, CA ​ ​ Education: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, BFA, New Genres, 2002. ​ Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, Two-Year Teacher Training Program, 2008. ​ Teaching: San Francisco State, Guest Lecturer, 2017-present. ​ Conceptual Oregon Performance School (C.O.P.S), Teacher, 2010-present. ​ California College of the Arts, Guest Lecturer, 2010-present. ​ San Francisco Art Institute, Substitute Teacher and Guest Lecturer. 2004-present. ​ Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA. Guest Lecturer. 2007-present. ​ Stanford University, Guest Lecturer. 2004. ​ Employment/Artistic Research: Cybernet Media, Director/Videographer/Engineer/Photographer/Production-Assistant/Editor, SF, CA, 03/10-03/18. ​ ​ ​ Premier Locksmith, Locksmith/Assistant Manager, SF, CA, 02/07-06/11. ​ Lock World, Locksmith/Shop Manager, SF, CA, 09/02-02/07. ​ The Yoga Garden, Yoga Instructor, SF, CA, 04/08-01/10 ​ Selected Solo Shows and Exhibitions: •None of this is Real, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, 07/18-present. ​ ​ ​ •Stuck, collaboration with Jennifer Locke, ROCKSBOX Contemporary Fine Art, Portland, OR, 07/11. ​ •No Man’s Land, Vooruit Center for the Arts, Ghent, Belgium, 05/10. ​ ​ ​ •Grip, Grope, Grasp, and Fondle, at Portland State University’s Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR, 03/10. ​ ​ ​ •(W)hole, at The Charlie James Gallery, LA, CA, 08/09. ​ ​ ​ •The Lobster Trap Conundrum, at 826 Valencia St, SF, CA, 10/08. ​ ​ ​ •Egress, at RocksBox Contemporary Fine Art, Portland, OR, 09/07-10/07. ​ ​ ​ •Unshackle, at 826 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, 02/05-03/05. ​ ​ ​ •The Service Show, at Amotion Studio, San Francisco, CA, 02/04-04/04. ​ ​ ​ •Burdens, at The Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 03/02 ​ ​ ​ Selected Group Shows: •How to Escape from Zip-Ties, for Happening Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, 10/18. ​ ​ ​ •Consent, for Southern Exposures 39th anniversary show called 39 Forever, SF, CA, 10/13 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ •The Locksmithing Graduate Institute, for the show Teach-In at Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA, 04/13. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ •How to Drill a Lock, for the Packard Jennings destructables.org launch party, SF, CA, 10/11. ​ ​ ​ •Anti-Houdini, for the Pieces of Utopia at The Lab, SF,CA, Curated by Sasha Petrenko, 08/11. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ •Wappening #4, collaboration with Lee Walton, SF, CA and NYC, NY, 01/10. ​ •Private(s), produced for the Electrified II Exhibition at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium, 05/10. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ •Dust to Dust, for The Interackje Art Fair in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 05/10. ​ ​ ​ •9/10, as part of the Conflux Art Festival, NY, NY, 09/08. ​ ​ ​ •Unshackle: Part #2, as part of Conflux Art Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 09/07. ​ ​ ​ •Close Calls, at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA, 02/07. ​ ​ ​ •The Locksmithing Institute, as part of Excentra International Performance Festival, Frey Bentos, Uruguay, 10/06. ​ ​ ​ ​ •Fear of Touching curated by Anna Novakov, at Gallery 531, San Francisco, CA, 12/01. ​ ​ ​ •The Housing Project, curated by Werner Klotz, at the North Beach Housing Projects, SF, CA, 05/01. ​ ​ ​ •Paladar curated by Tony Labat in Conjunction with The Havana Biennial, at 1560 37th Street, Cuba, 11/00. ​ ​ ​ Collections: Berkeley Art Museum, 2010 Pam Martin Trust, 2010 Residencies: Artist in Residence, Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, 03/18-present. ​ ​ Artist in Residence, Vooruit Center for the Artist, Ghent, Belgium, 2010. ​ ​ ​ Honors/Awards: Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, sponsored residency with Grand Central Art Center, 03/18-present. ​ Nominated for a SECA awarded, 2002 and 2010. Co-op Bar Grant 2008, from The Collective Foundation ​ Recipient of Best in the Show, San Francisco Art Institute Spring Show, 05/02. ​ Press: What We Want is Free, 2nd Edition, SUNY Press, Ted Purves and Shane Selzer, 2014. ​ ​ LA Times, Lucas Murgida at Charlie James Gallery, Holly Myers, 08/21/09. ​ ​ ​ Art Forum, Lucas Murgida, Annie Buckley, 07/31/09. ​ ​ ​ Nuke Magazine, Lucas Murgida, Joseph Del Pesco, Page 77, 01/09. ​ ​ ​ New York Times, In Brooklyn, a Confluxion Junction, Martha Schwendener, 09/18/07. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Artweek, Close Call: 2007, Mark Van Proyen, 03/07. ​ ​ ​ .