Lehrerseminar Zürich 1976-1980. Studium der Fotografie am San Francisco Art Institute 1981-1984. Seither freischaffender Fotograf in San Francisco. Seit 1990 Dozent für Fotografie an der Stanford University und bei der Southern Exposure Gallery, am Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Arts Education Project. Eidg. Stipendium 1988; Stipendien von Headlands Center for the Arts 1991, The Friends of Photography 1992, Western States Arts Federation 1993, National Endowment for the Arts NEA 1994; Werkbeitrag des Bundesamtes für Kultur 2002, 2008; Stipendium der Peter S. Reed Foundation 2003; International Photobook Award 2009; Best International Photo Book of the Year 2012; Stipendium der Springcreek Foundation; Fellowship in Photography der Guggenheim Foundation 2018.
Publications individuelles
«Portfolio», Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1984; «Landfall», Lars Müller, Baden 2004; «Helix», Cavallo Point, San Francisco 2009; «Waters in Between. An Archive of a Marsh», Lars Müller, Baden 2009; «Swarm», Lars Müller, Baden 2011; «Sky/Ground» (Sammlerausgabe im Schuber von «Waters in Between» und «Swarm»), Eigenverlag 2014; «Gull Juju: Photographs from the Farallon Islands», Lars Müller, Zürich 2015; «Apophenia», Koenig Books, London 2018.
Publications collectives
«Photographie in der Schweiz von 1840 bis heute», Benteli, Bern 1992; «Made in Switzerland. Aus der Fotosammlung der Eidgenossenschaft», Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern 1997; «Images du monde. Une histoire de la cartographie», Musée Historique, Lausanne 2004; «Kindheit in der Schweiz», Limmat, Zürich 2015; «99 Fotografien», Lars Müller, Zürich 2021.
Expositions individuelles
Stillight Gallery, San Francisco 1982 («Lukas Felzmann. Photographs»); Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco 1983 («New Work»); University of Nevada, Reno («Lukas Felzmann. Photographs»); Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno 1985 («Lukas Felzmann. New Photographs»); Blue Sky Gallery, Portland/Oregon 1986; Show & Tell Gallery, San Francisco 1986 («Songs of Land and Skin»); XS Gallery, Las Vegas 1989 («Fall and Desire»); Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 1990 («Sculptures and Photographs»), Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco 1991 («Room for Endangered Species»), 1991 («Library»), 1991 («Room for St. John of the Cross»); Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia 1992 («The Silent Flight»); Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco 1992 («Fragments of Flight»); The Friends of Photography, San Francisco 1992 («Muse and Restraint»); Haines Gallery, San Francisco 1995 («Counterspace«); Museo de Antioquia, Medellín KOL 1995 («Cultura y naturaleza, sensores de vida»); Festival Internacional de Arte, Medellín KOL 1997; Hosfeldt Gallery, San Francisco 1997 («River‘s Edge»); McKesson Building, San Francisco 2000 («Lukas Felzmann. Photographs»); Hutter & Wirth Galerie, Basel 2004 («Photographien»); Mills College Art Museum, San Francisco 2004 («The Farallon Project»); Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur 2004 («Landfall. Eine literarische Bilderreise»), 2013 («Gull Juju»); Schloss Bonndorf, Bonndorf D 2005 («Fotografien Lukas Feldmann»); Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto 2005 («Cluster»); Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria 2006 («Landfall»), 2011 («Swarm»); Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford 2008 («Ghostpile»); Semina Rerum, Zürich 2009 («Waters In Between»), 2011 («Swarm»); Bolinas Museum, Bolinas 2011 («Waters In Between»); Semina Rerum, Zürich 2011; TH13, Bern 2013 («Landfall»); Euqinom Projects, San Francisco 2017 («A Road Home»); Fotofestival, Lianzhou 2019 («Gull Juju / China»).
Expositions de groupe
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 1981 («The Spring Show»), 1982 («The Spring Show»); Frog Prince Gallery, San Francisco 1983 («Five Photographers, New Work»); Camerawork, San Francisco 1984, 2001 («Not Landscape: Fragments and Metaphors»), 2010 («An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area»); Fort Mason Center, San Francisco 1985 («Masters 85»); Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco 1986 («Artists Against Apartheid»); Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie im Kunsthaus, Zürich 1986, 1989 («Visitenkarte»); Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco 1988 («El día de los muertos»); Kornhaus, Bern 1988 («Eidgenössisches Stipendium für angewandte Kunst»); 55 Mercer, New York 1988 («8 Photographers»); Art Center, Richmond 1989 («Beyond the Frame»); Show & Tell Gallery, San Francisco 1989 («Objects of my Affection»), 1990 («Circus»); Rincon Hill Gallery, San Francisco 1990 («Camera Obscured»); California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco 1991 («Image/Object/Place»); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam 1991 («Photoworks 91»); San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco 1992 («Chainreaction»); Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco 1993 («Miniatures»); Bedford Art Gallery, San Francisco 1994; Center for Photography, Woodstock 1995 («Fragile Landscapes); Hosfelt Gallery 1996 («Inaugural Show»), 2003 («Paper»); Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco 1996 («50 Years Photography at SFAI»); Musée de l‘Elysée, Lausanne 1997 («Made in Switzerland. Les collections de photographies de la Confédération»); San Francisco Arts and Education Project, San Francisco 1998 («Give and Take»); Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco 1998 («Performativeacts»); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1998 («Picturing Modernity»); Stanford Museum of Art, Stanford 1999; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose 2001 («Depicting Absence/Implying Presence»); Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto 2002 («Night Skies & Imaginary Coordinates»); Musée Historique, Lausanne 2004 («Images du monde: Une histoire de la cartographie»); Palais des Nations, Genf 2004 («Etre»); Hosfeldt Gallery, San Francisco 2006 («Book»); Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford 2009 («From Their Studios»); Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel 2010 («Kammermusik»); Musée d'Art de d'Histoire, Neuenburg 2011 («Confrontations»); Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur 2011 («Schweizer Fotobücher 1927 bis heute»); DiRosa Foundation, Napa 2012 («Entering the Wild»); Museum of Art, Santa Barbara 2014 («Heavenly Bodies»), 2015 («Art to Zoo»); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2015 («Dancing Light»); Museum of Art, Bolinas 2017 («Phenomenon»); Centre Photographique, Rouen 2018 («À tire-d'aile. Figures de l'envol.).