Jonathan Luckhurst integrates natural processes and ecological systems into immersive artworks that reframe our relationship to the built environment and the natural world.

His works are conceived as deep time echoes — incorporating ancient life forms and ecologies that have appeared throughout Earth’s history in response to moments of distress, to highlight and understand our current moment of crisis. Through them, his works become conceptual biomimicry, re-enactments of ecological strategies, mirroring rhythms of decay and proliferation, alluding to how both we and the Earth might respond.

Luckhurst is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Edmonton Arts Council and the Buschlen Mowatt Nichol Foundation. In 2015, he was invited to participate in the Vancouver Biennale International Artist Residency Program and in 2020, he was commissioned by the  Art Gallery of Alberta to create an installation for the BMO World of Creativity Gallery. His current work, Proposals for Reimagined Futures, was published by the Vancouver Biennale in 2025. In 2026, he will present this work at the Phylum Artist Talk series in Bristol, UK. Luckhurst received his Bachelor of Science in Cell Biology and Genetics from the University of British Columbia and is the founder of Sea to Sky Botanics — a social enterprise that implements food sovereignty projects in northern communities. Luckhurst’s pragmatic, real-world experience with food sovereignty initiatives anchors and guides his approach to making art while creating layers within his work that could not be achieved otherwise.