always on an airplane catch me if you can 😎🛩💪 (triple passport USA + ITALY + UK ) works globally
A rare breed, Micaela McLucas is a fourth generation native of Los Angeles, everyone's favorite place to complain about. Her father, a towering, long haired hippie who shunned the idea of shoes and growing up, collected Micaela’s mother in Bariloche, Argentina, on one of his many trips exploring the world. Blame it on too much sun radiation and suburbia, Micaela burst out from the Pacific like a hurricane, with a vivid imagination and an energy so loud no adult was ever able to quiet or make behave. At the age of five she knew she’d be an artist and has clung to it ever since.
Micaela has always done everything backwards and borderline illegally. She’s travelled and lived around the world, finding every loophole to extend her adventures, collecting several passports along the way. Fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, and English, Micaela is a perpetual learner. Over the past 15 years, She's obsessively documented her escapades, along with a never ending cringe but fascinating journal of hangovers and fuckups.
Always one foot in another country and several cameras wrapped around her neck, she’s developed a wild visual language that has crossed over into writing, photography, filmmaking, and even with great success in the commercial world, as she is represented by Ridley Scott’s RSA Films. She recently completed her MFA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at the prestigious Central Saint Martins, in London, which further glitched any last hopes for a straightforward career path.
Micaela’s work is multi dimensional and experimental, constantly on the edges between fantasy and reality, truth, and fiction. She is extremely passionate about filmmaking and her voice is one of a kind. From a formal perspective, cinema is the most contemporary vehicle for her to put her ideas into play and touch the biggest audience with her work. After all, it’s through art we can imagine and create a better world and if we cease to imagine a better world then that possibility ceases to exist as well.
Micaela has exhibited internationally, and her client list includes Ford Motor Company / Lincoln, Rolls Royce, Tanqueray Gin, George @ Asda, Flannels, Warner Music, The BBC, Marriott, Pepsi, Puma, Office Shoes, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Spotify, Kirke, Liu Jo, Refinery29, and L’Oréal. Her work has appeared in publications including British Vogue, Elle Germany, Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveller, I-D, Exit, GQ, Hunger, The Fall, Autre, & Office, among others.
Instagram : @MICAELAMCLUCAS
Film reel : Vimeo
EDUCATION
- 2020- MA, Contemporary Photography Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, London
- 2013- Licence, Arts Plastiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
- 2010 - Foundation in Painting, Art Students League, NYC
- 2008 - Painting/Photography Santa Monica College, CA
- 2006 - BFA Fine Art Cal State University, San Francisco
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 June, MFA Graduate Show, Central Saint Martins, London
- 2022 March, Open Studio, Central Saint Martins, London
- 2021 June, Open Studio, Central Saint Martins, London
- 2021 April, Transference.TV group show Central Saint Martins, London
- 2020 July, ‘freewall.space’ www.freewall.space
- 2020 May, Conversations; Wessel Barda & Micaela McLucas
- 2019 October, "Love & Loyalty" St. Pancras Hotel, London
- 2017 May, EXIT Sid Motion Gallery London
- 2015 June, solo show "Cirrus" Castor Gallery New York City
- 2015 January, "18 percent" Castor Gallery New York City
- 2015 November, "Lost Love" SuperMassiveBlackHole Dublin
- 2014 August “Inside/Out” Castor Gallery New York City
- 2014 May “Process” New York City
- 2014 May La galerie Soufflot, Paris
- 2008 October “International LA Photographic Art Exposition” Santa Monica
SELECT CLIENTS
- Pepsi, Spotify, Lincoln, Rolls Royce, Stella McCartney, Arsenal F.C.., Asda, Tanqueray Gin, Flannels, Warner Music, The BBC, Marriott, Puma, Office Shoes, Kirke, Liu Jo, Refinery29, Adidas, and L’Oréal
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
- "The Life Aquatic" Condé Nast Traveller October 2019 pages 62-64
- "Cosmic Vibrations" Office Magazine September 2019
- Spotz 007 Nick Sethi 2019 New York City
- Spotz 004 Ryan McGinley 2019 New York City
- Spotz 001 Chad Moore 2019 New York City
- "Munroe Bergdorf" Hunger Magazine issue 14 2018 London
- "On Campus: Micaela McLucas" Exit Magazine Issue 34 October 2017 London, UK
- "On the march with Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei" i-D magazine, 2015 London, UK
- Fisheye Magazine,Issue #11 2015 Paris France:
- http://issuu.com/fisheye-magazine/docs/fe11_issue
- "THE PAST PRESENT: To Pierre Bergé" Haute Living, May 2014 Paris France https://hauteliving.com/2014/05/past-present-pierre-berge-film-life-lifelong-partner-yves-saint-laurent-gift-treasured/489434/
- No Thoughts Book 11 Time & Space 2014 New York City
SELECT PRESS
- 2019 Art Gorgeous, Hong Kong
- https://theartgorgeous.com/artist-anarchy-female-gaze/
- 2019 LensCult https://lenscult.net/micaelamclucas/
- 2018 Mortimer House, London, UK https://www.mortimerhouse.com/notebook/article/micaela-mclucas-photographic-wanderlust-and-keepin/
- 2018 Young Creative Council, Badass Gal, London, UK https://www.badass.gal/blog/micaelamclucas
- 2017 Exit Magazine x Adidas
- 2017 HUNGER Magazine "Curated by girls"
- 2017 Curated by Girls, Berlin, Germany
- http://www.curatedbygirls.com/micaela-mclucas.html
- 2015 The Daily Mail, London UK
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3129967/I-abandoned-life-NYC-soul-searching-Photographer-travels-world-epic-odyssey-herself.html
- 2015 Beautiful Savage, New York
- http://beautifulsavage.com/design/interview-photographer-micaela-mclucas-talks-cirrus/
- 2015 Autre Magazine, Los Angeles, California
- http://www.pasunautre.com/journal/2015/6/18/micaela-mclucas-cirrus-castor-gallery-in-new-york
- 2015 The Editorial Magazine, Montreal, Canada
- http://the-editorialmagazine.com/?p=5919
- 2014 VNDL Magazine, New York
- http://www.vndlmag.com/2014/08/micaela-mclucas/
- 2014 “Wild Nights: Micaela McLucas” The Wild Magazine, New York http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/wild-nights-micael...
- 2014 No Culture Icons Leeds, United Kingdom
- http://www.nocultureicons.com/micaela-mclucas
- 2014 “Inside/Out Tomorrow” Art-Nerd, New York
- http://art-nerd.com/newyork/insideout-art-scavenge...
- 2014 Preview, “Inside/Out” Arrested in Motion, New York http://arrestedmotion.com/2014/08/previews-insideo...
- 2014 “Process Opens Tonight” Art-Nerd, New York
- http://art-nerd.com/newyork/process-opens-tonight/
- 2014 Stay Young Zine
- http://stayyoungzine.tumblr.com/post/87885463628/m...
- 2014 Splash & Grab Magazine Melbourne, Australia http://splashandgrab.co.uk/post/86004510155/micael...
- 2014 “Previews, Inside/Out” Compound Project, New York
- http://compoundproject.com/blogs/news-2/15181065-p...
- 2014 “Process” Art Update, New York
- http://artupdate.com/en/process-curated-justin-ded...
- 2011 Whudat, Germany
- http://www.whudat.de/micaela-mclucas-phtography-12...
- 2011 DSGNR, Chile
- http://www.dsgnr.cl/2011/07/fotografia-micaela-mcl...
- 2010 “Photographic duo reaches for digital absurdity” Baruch City University of New York
- http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/shiftingshapes/daniel...