biography / bibliography
DEBORAH N. LUSTER
Born in 1951, Bend, Oregon
Lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Galway, Ireland
EDUCATION
1989–1990
Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC
1977–1979
Graduate writing courses, University of Arkansas
1970–1976
University of Arkansas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Deborah Luster – Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish, Ogden Museum of Souther Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 17–April 17, 2013.
2011
Tooth for an Eye, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2009
Invisible Populations, LSU School of Art, Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA
2007
One Big Self, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans
2006
On the Inside, The Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, SC
2005
One Big Self, The Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
One Big Self, Winthrop University Gallery, Rock Hill, SC
2004
One Big Self, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
One Big Self, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2003
One Big Self, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2002
One Big Self, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
1999
Come Shining: The Spiritual South, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1994
The Lost Roads Project, The Old State House, Little Rock, AR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Groundstory: Tales from the Shade of the South, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, September 27–November, 2012.
2011
The World According to New Orleans, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, March 18–August 14, 2011. Curated by Dan Cameron.
2010
Prospect 1.5, New Orleans
Crime Scene NOLA, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans
Residents and Visitors: Twentieth Century Photographs of Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art
2007
A Course in Minerals, a collaboration with Kevin Sullivan, KK Projects, New Orleans, LA
2008
Tooth for an Eye, Prospect .1, New Orleans
2005
Hand and Eye: The Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award Recipient’s Exhibition, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC: Traveling to:
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
Winthrop University, South Carolina
Casting a New Light, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2004
Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
Common Ground, Selections from the Collection of Julia L Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Male Body Image, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Southern Images, Contemporary Photographers, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
2002
No Exit: Images of Imprisonment, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Alternative Photography, The White Room Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography (FOTOFest), Houston, TX
The Camera Obscured IV: Mixed Media Photography, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Many Moons, Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York
The Crafted Image, Boston University, Boston, MA
Visualizing the Blues, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
1999
Myth, Memory and Imagination, The Julia J. Norrell Collection, The McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Carried to the Heart: Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Humidity, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Home Altars, Sacred Space in the Domestic Realm, John Michael Kohler Center, Sheboygan, WI
Not for Profit, Soho Photo, NYC
Send it on Down, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1997
Come Shining, Poets Theatre, NYC
1996
Discoveries at the Meeting Place, Fotofest, Houston, TX
The American South: Contemporary Photography from 1966—1996, Catherine Edelman Gallery
New Southern Photography, The Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Water, Photo Metro, San Francisco, CA
Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1995
Deborah Luster and William Griner, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Gallery Artists: Part I, Catherine Edelman, Chicago
Blue Sky’s 20th Anniversary Show, Blue Sky Gallery , Portland, OR
1994
Bi Location, Oaxaca, Mexico
Send it on Down, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
SELECTED AWARDS
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Sweet Arts Grant, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2007
Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2002
The John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, 2002
The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, The Baum Foundation, 2001
Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, 2000
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Publication Grant, 2000
Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University (with C.D. Wright), 2000
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Akron Museum of Art
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Berg Collection, New York Public Library, NYC
Brown University, Providence, RI
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
Mecklinburg Arts Council, Charlotte, NC
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Archives, Washington, DC
Nations Bank Collection, Charlotte, NC
New Orleans Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
The Pilara Foundation
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT