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Deborah Luster

(American, born 1951)

Deborah Luster

Tooth for an Eye, Ledger 01-04, Location. Roosevelt's Black Pearl Restaurant, 1001 North Claiborne Avenue, Date(s). September 9, 2004, Name(s). Johnny "Lee" Stovall (53), William "Bill" Lindsey (41), Glenda Lockett (45), Diane Variste (48), Notes. Multipl, 2008–2010

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Deborah Luster

Tooth for an Eye, Ledger 05-09, Location. St. Philip near North Clairborne (Treme), Date(s). September 16, 1989, Name(s). Johnson Davis (26), Notes. Beaten with baseball bat., Date(s). January 5, 2001, Name(s). Richard Schroeder, Notes. Gunshot., 2008–2010

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Deborah Luster

ECPPF34, 1999

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LCIW86, 2000

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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
2007: Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
One Big Self, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (solo)
A Course in Minerals, a collaboration with Kevin Sullivan, KK Projects, New Orleans, LA
2006: Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
On the Inside, The Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, South Carolina (solo)
2005: Deborah Luster Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
One Big Self, The Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (solo)
One Big Self, Winthrop University Gallery, Rock Hill, South Carolina (solo)
Hand and Eye: The Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award Recipient’s Exhibition, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Traveled to: Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia; McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia; Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas; Winthrop University, South Carolina; Casting a New Light, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

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
: The Pilara Foundation, San Francisco, California
: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
: New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
: Nations Bank Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: National Archives, Washington, D.C.
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
: The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
: Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
: William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: Masur Museum, Monroe, Louisiana
: Mecklinburg Arts Council, Charlotte, North Carolina

Deborah Luster

(American, born 1951)

Deborah Luster

Deborah Luster

Deborah Luster

Deborah Luster

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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