Luca Molnar (b. 1991, Budapest, Hungary) is a painter, educator, and sometimes-writer based in Central Florida. Molnar 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. Her first book, The Mother Game, is an experimental, collaborative artist book featuring text and images from both her and her collaborator Kat Shannon. It will be available from Burrow Press in 2026.

Other recent works include Worker Bees, a thirty-eight foot mural installed at the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, which highlights Floridian farmworkers and their advocates; The Beauty of Politics, a body of paintings developed in response to the Hand Art Center’s historic Oscar Bluemner collection and the 1913 Paterson silk strike; Painting Requests from Tomoka, an ongoing collaborative project pairing Community Education Project students incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution with Stetson painting students; and Helybe, a site-specific installation that covered the gallery floor in tile in a Hungarian flame stitch pattern.

Molnar received her MFA from New York University and her BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Stetson University.