Dimitar Lukanov was born 23rd of February 1969 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. An American citizen since 2003, he studied art on full scholarship in Paris and New York receiving his Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1997. He is the recipient of numerous grants including: Pollack Krasner, Helene and Michel David-Weill scholarship Paris/New York, Open Society Foundation, Skowhegan Fellowship, Columbia Fellowship, ArtCultureStudio, Geneva, Switzerland, Medal for Sculpture, First International Sculpture Symposium, Mexico and Invited Artist International Art Fair, Shanghai and Moscow, ExpressArte, Mexico. His New York’s JFK Terminal 4 three- piece sculpture commission marked an important moment in the Terminal’s major redevelopment as the number one international point of entry of all US air travel. In September 2019 The American Planning Association selected Amsterdam NY’s Pedestrian Bridge, along with Dimitar Lukanov's artistic additions as the winning project for public art – the trilogy of large-scale sculptures he created for the bridge - as one of only six 2019, for the entire United States, ”Great Places in America”. His work is part of numerous public and private collections and has garnered critical attention in The Wall Street Journal, Art-in-America, FRAME, New York Daily News, Artnet.com, Euronews, Broadway World, Archpaper, Interior Design, ELLE Décor, Standartnews, Associated Press, among others. Fluent in five languages, Dimitar Lukanov lives in Brooklyn, New York and works in his studio in Schoharie County, New York.