[1] Kuksi received his Master of Fine Arts from Fort Hays University in 2002.
[2] Kuksi has studied with established artists in Italy, Austria and Spain, including participating in several international workshops including "Painting the Fantastic" with Robert Venosa in Italy, "Old Masters New Visions Seminar" with Philip Rubinov Jacobson in Austria and "Painting Dali's Garden", with Venosa in Spain.
[3] He creates intricate sculptures made up of thousands of individual parts that he collects and re-shapes before putting them together in a cohesive design.
[1] His work was shown at the Pulse Art Fair in Los Angeles in 2011,[6] and has appeared on the front covers of the magazines Philosophie[7] and Bl!sss.
[citation needed] His second book, Conquest (ISBN 9780847860265), was published in 2017 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.