Lukas Bury, based in Reykjavik is a visual artist with a Polish and German background, interested in historical understanding and the narrative power of images.

Through the making of paintings, accompanied by writing – both, external as a generator of discourse, but also embedded into the surface of the canvas, he analyzes cultural contexts, historical narratives and modern-day virtual iconoclasm. With the incorporation of peculiar perspectives, his motifs tackle pertinent political issues and depict the inner strife of a second-generation immigrant, who became a global citizen after being born into a Western-European country.

Lukas studied in the MA program at the Listaháskóli Íslands, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.

Bury exhibited in numerous group shows i. a.,  Tilvera – Being (2018),  at Verksmiðjan in Hjalteyri, Common Ground at the SIM Exhibition Hall in Korpulfsstaðir (2020), Reykjavik, Forðabúr – Supply (2020) at the Nylistasafn in Reykjavik (curated by Hanna Styrmisdóttir), Extraterritorial (2021) at the Mini Market, Reykjavik (with Weronika Balcerak, Flaviu Cacoveanu, and Vitalii Shupliak. Curated by Ana Victoria Bruno), and Raw Power (2021) at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (with artists like Baldur Helgason, Erró, Sigurður Ámundason, and Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir. Curated by Birgir S. Birgisson)
He also participated in the Reykjavik Arts Festival (2020) and the Plan-B Art Festival in Borgarnes (2020).