Lucas J. Knowles is an emerging ceramic and intermedia artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2021, Knowles earned a Masters of Fine Arts Degree with a focus in Ceramics/Intermedia from Arizona State University. Lucas J Knowles has exhibited nationally and abroad, including the Humboldt University of Berlin for Berlin Science Week, as well as the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in both 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2019, Lucas J Knowles was selected to participate in the NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition. In 2020, Knowles received the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Lucas J. Knowles' art practice is informed by copying, memory, entropy, and decay. His minimal and interactive works succinctly posit questions relating to human ontology: death, life, and the liminal space between.