Lukas Carlson is a painter who recently graduated with their MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been published by The Guardian, Alpha Magazine, 507 Magazine, and WQOQ Channel 18 News. He has exhibited in galleries such as the New York Academy of Art, MCAD Gallery 148, Volume One, Love Your Melon HQ, and the Paramount Gallery. He studies figurative painting through depression.