Deborah Luster

(American, born 1951)

septima with tadpoles by deborah luster

Deborah Luster

Septima with Tadpoles, 1993

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michael "lil'red" martin, angola, louisiana by deborah luster

Deborah Luster

Michael "Lil'Red" Martin, Angola, Louisiana, 1999

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peter lemm, angola, louisiana by deborah luster

Deborah Luster

Peter Lemm, Angola, Louisiana, 1999

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tammy mullins, st. gabriel, louisiana by deborah luster

Deborah Luster

Tammy Mullins, St. Gabriel, Louisiana, 2001

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annette rose, st. gabriel, louisiana by deborah luster

Deborah Luster

Annette Rose, St. Gabriel, Louisiana, 1999

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Biography

Timeline

1951
Born in Bend, Oregon
1970 - 1976
University of Arkansas
1977 - 1979
Graduate writing courses, University of Arkansas
1989 - 1990
Carteret Community College, Morehead City, North Carolina
Lives and works in Monroe, Louisiana

Exhibitions

2016 - 2017
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2015 - 2016
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 30, 2015–February 16, 2016. Traveled to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Winter in America, The School, Kinderhook, New York
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2015
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Shad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Behind The Lens: Women Photographers on the South and Appalachia, Tipton Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2013 - 2014
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2013-2014:
Tooth for an Eye, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Portland (solo)
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st floor West, Washington, D.C.
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY
2013
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Deborah Luster – Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (solo)
2012
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Groundstory: Tales from the Shade of the South, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College
2011
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Tooth for an Eye, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
The World According to New Orleans, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas, Curated by Dan Cameron
2010
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Crime Scene NOLA, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans
Prospect 1.5, New Orleans
Residents and Visitors: Twentieth Century Photographs of Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art
2009
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Invisible Populations, LSU School of Art, Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (solo
2008
Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Tooth for an Eye, Prospect .1, New Orleans

Public Collections

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Berg Collection, New York Public Library, New York
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Akron Museum of Art, Ohio
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California