biography / bibliography
DEBORAH N. LUSTER
Born in 1951, Oregon
Lives and works in Monroe, Louisiana
EDUCATION
1989-1990
Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC
1977-1979
Graduate writing courses, University of Arkansas
1970-1976
University of Arkansas
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Invisible Populations: Photographs by Deborah Luster, LSU School of Art Alfred C. Glassel Jr. Exhibition Gallery
2005
Invisible Populations: Photographs by Deborah Luster, LSU School of Art Alfred C. Glassel Jr. Exhibition Gallery
2005
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia Travelling to:
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
2004
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2003
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Arts in the Edge, Shreveport, LA
2002
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Faulkner Festival, Basetti Gallery, New Orleans
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Galveston Arts Center Galveston, TX
1999
Come Shining: The Spiritual South, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1997
Come Shining, Poets Theater, New York
Send it On Down, Bellocq Gallery, Ruston, LA
1994
The Phoenix, Wilmington, NC
Big Room Gallery, Wilmington, NC
1993
The Playhouse Theater, Rocky Mount, NC
1992
Remember Me: The Last of Beaufort's Menhaden Fishery, North Carolina Maritime Museum, Beaufort, NC
Beaufort Fisheries, Beaufort, NC
Camera Cases Program, University of Arkansas
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008
Prospect 1, New Orleans
2005
Casting a New Light, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia, 2005: 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
Common Ground, Selections from the Collection of Julia L Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2004
SF Moma, San Francisco, CA 2004
Male Body Image, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
Watermark Gallery, Houston, TX
Lexington Art Gallery, Lexington, VA
2003
The Bicentennial Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University
The Eye 20 Group, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
Southern Images Contemporary Photographers, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
2002
Contemporary Alternative Photography, The White Room Gallery, West Hollywood
A Day in the Life of Poverty Point, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
2001
Many Moons, Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York
The Crafted Image, Boston University
Visualizing the Blues, The Dixon
2000
Gallery and Gardens, Memphis
The Camera Obscured III: Mixed Media Photographs, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Trouble Shooting, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Southern Vernacular Photography, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
A Journal of Influences: Friends and Mentors, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
1999
Myth Memory and Imagination, The Julia J. Norrell Collection, The McKissick Museum,
Columbia, SC
Come Shining: The Spiritual South, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Carried to the Heart: Faith and Doubt in Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Humidity, Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta
What Will You Miss, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Not for Profit, Soho Photo, New York
Home Altars/Sacred Space in the Domestic Realm, John Michael Kohler Center, Sheboygan, WI
Cultural Influences, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
1998
Photographers and Poets Collaborating, The Dean’s Gallery, School of the Arts, University of Southwestern Louisiana
The Camera Obscured II: Mixed Media Photography, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
When Tears Come Down Like Falling Rain: An Examination of the Peculiar in Southern Art, City Hall East, Atlanta
Merry Moor Winnett Photography Triennial, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
1997
Come Shining, Poets Theater, New York
Animal Instincts, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago,
Fear Not Forever, Winthrop University Gallery, Rock Hill, SC
Dix Artists, Festival International Invitational, Lafayette, LA
Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, Touring Exhibition: Space 111, Birmingham
CU Art Gallery, Boulder; The Light Factory, Charlotte
1996
Southern Photographers, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
New Southern Photography, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Discoveries at the Meeting Place, Fotofest, Houston, TX
Blue Sky’s 20th Anniversary Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1995
Gallery Artists: Part 1, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
North Carolina Photographers, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro
1994
The Lost Roads Project a Walk-in Book of Arkansas, Touring the State of Arkansas
Send it on Down: Photographs of Keith Carter and Deborah Luster, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Bi Locacion, Oaxacca, Mexico
1993
Women and Angels, Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI
Five Women Artists, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
AWARDS
2002
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
The John Guttman Photography Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
2001
The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, awarded by The Baum Foundation
Artist-in-Residence, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina
2000
Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Publication Grant
Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
1994
Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear, Emerging Artist Grant
1993
North Carolina Arts Council, Visual Arts Project Grant
North Carolina Arts Council, Folklife Project Grant
1992
Meredith College, "NC Photographers”
1991
Mecklenburg Arts Council, Purchase Award, The Light Factory