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Luca Molnar

Associate Professor of Studio Art

Luca Molnar is a painter, most days. Her work uses historical figures and personal mythologies as its starting point, building networked connections through both research and intuition. In her paintings, pattern references imagined domestic spaces, allowing the private sphere to emerge as a complex and contradictory site worthy of our attention. Her interest in our relationships with the past, memory, and identity extends into her installation work and writing.

  • MFA, Studio Art, New York University
  • BA, Studio Art, Dartmouth College

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Biography

Luca Molnar is a painter, educator, and sometimes-writer. Molnar was born in Budapest, Hungary and grew up mostly in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she often felt like an outsider amongst the genteel Southern suburbanites and developed an obsession with Vera Bradley floral prints rooted in equal parts revulsion and aspiration.

In addition to Stetson, Molnar has held teaching appointments at NYU, Dartmouth College, and the Governor's School of North Carolina. Her paintings depict fractured space and argue for work that is grounded in the decorative yet political.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Oil Painting
  • Contemporary Art
  • Professional Practices in Art

Course Sampling

  • Painting I, II, and III
  • Mural Painting
  • Art About Reproductive Justice
  • Global Food and Art in Venice; in São Paulo

  • Pattern and Decoration
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Research-Based Art 

Selected Publications:

  • Molnar, Luca and Kat Shannon. The Mother Game. Burrow Press, 2026

Selected Public Art Commissions:

  • 2026 Worker Bees, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2026 The Mother Game, Casselberry Sculpture House, Casselberry, FL
  • 2024 The Beauty of Politics: Oscar Bluemner and Luca Molnar, Hand Art Center, DeLand, FL
  • 2023 Helybe, alt_space Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
  • 2023 Same Source, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

Selected Awards:

  • 2025 Florida Female Pioneer Award, The Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation