— 2026 IBPA BOOK AWARD WINNER —
and shit glitter!
About Luke Stoffel
Luke Stoffel (b. 1978) is turning one human life into a seven-book work of dimensional physics — the same life told seven times, each in a dimension and a form that can't exist in any other: a straight-line memoir, a second-person one, a novel narrated by an artificial intelligence, a choose-your-own-adventure that plays a life out as every possible branch of Survivor. The eighth dimension is a hand-painted tarot deck.
He is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award–winning author and a 2026 National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, with a best-selling series praised by Kirkus and scored 9.5/10 by Publishers Weekly BookLife. His Pop Art Tarot is published by Rockpool Publishing and distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster.
He is also a GLAAD-honored painter and photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, and on Bravo, been commissioned by the Ralph Lauren family and the Hong Kong Ballet, and been shown by the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
As a creative director he built Mozilla's Builders program and directed campaigns for the U.S. Open, Coca-Cola, and Whole Foods. He speaks on AI and creative practice — and on building a career by hacking the systems that were never designed to let you in.
The ways in which this world has created beauty through devotion to the unknown is what inspires me the most. I am fascinated by society’s interpretations of God, and how we infuse dance, song, and ritual with such profound meaning, even for something or someone intangible. My goal is to convey these ideas through visual art. Not only do I strive to interpret the cultural significance of various religions and traditions, but I also aim to challenge viewers to question the very essence of “who or what is God?” I’m less interested in making work that is purely commercial, and more interested in opening a dialogue.
Lucas Stoffel
Contemporary Artist / Painter
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What Inspires You?
Travel Photography
Twenty years of wandering through Asia, Europe, and beyond — not as a tourist, but as a witness. These photographs trace the moments between monuments: temple valleys at dawn, night markets in motion, the quiet geometry of streets that don't know they're beautiful. The same eye that paints geishas and monks, the same restlessness that wrote seven books.
Photography Gallery
