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The Historic New Orleans Collection is hosting the exhibition Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration, featuring the series One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana by Deborah Luster, in particular the central piece of the series, a steel cabinet containing 250 5x4-inch silver-gelatin photographic plates and two leather books. The exhibition will run July 19, 2024–January 19, 2025 at 520 Royal Street. Opening reception details to be announced.

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The group exhibition AIR LOOM marks 15 years of the Cssilhaus Residency, including works by nearly every artist who has participated in the residency program. The opening of the exhibition will coincide with a four day celebration where 30 of the artists will come together to meet one another (or re-meet from the 5th and 10th anniversary) and share their common experience here. Deborah Luster's work from Passion Play is featured. There will be a public reception in late June, date to be announced.

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For the first time, SECCA (North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem) and the North Carolina Museum of Art (in Raleigh) present a shared exhibition on both campuses, bringing awareness of global artists to audiences across North Carolina. The exhibition distinguishes itself from antiquated or heavily stereotyped studies of Southern culture that often disregard our complexities. Between December 3 and January 8, the gallery is available by appointment only. North Carolina Museum of Art and The Southeast Center for Creative Arts, February 15 through May 26 2024.

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One Big Self, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, will feature photographs of “people who happened to be in prison” in Louisiana. The One Big Self series humanizes the inmates and reveals the complex realities of incarceration. In her monograph One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Luster’s photographs are accompanied by a book-length poem by her project collaborator, poet C.D. Wright. One Big Self humanizes the inmates of Angola and encourages viewers to consider their own relationships to crime and punishment.

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Van Der Grinten Galerie in Köln, Germany features Deborah Luster's 35mm film work Angola Busker Screen Test: Wilbert Marcelin in the group exhibition Schuh, curated by Ruth Marten. The exhibition is on view from November 4, 2022 to January 31, 2023.

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Jack Shainman Gallery presents the group exhibition Stressed World from June 5 to December 3, 2022 at The School in Kinderhook. The gallery says about the show, "The thoughtfully-rendered and meticulously-crafted works in Stressed World remind us that the stressors of our times—from ecological strain to the sociological trouble embedded in our own collective histories—are experienced both globally and personally."

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The exhibition Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund includes Deborah Luster's photograph The Taxidermist's Son.

October 8, 2022 through January 8, 2023

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Deborah Luster's work is featured in the group exhibition In Search of Lost Memory at the Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica in Barham, Israel, curated by Robin Levy. The exhibition is on view from October 8 to December 31, 2022.

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Works from Deborah Luster's Passion Play are included in a traveling group exhibition, True Likeness, on view at the Van Every Gallery at Davidson College from October 29, 2020 to March 28, 2021. There are various programs related to this exhibition, including conversations on November 12, November 16, and February 21. The Van Every Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10-5 and weekends from 12-4 between October 29 and November 24. Between December 3 and January 8, the gallery is available by appointment only.

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The exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, curated by Mark Sloan and Mark Long, travels to Louisiana State University October 22, 2020 through February 14, 2021. Originating from the Halsey Institute at the University of Charleston, Southbound comprises 56 photographers' visions of the South in the first decades of the 21st century. The exhibition includes work from Deborah Luster's Passion Play series.

October 22, 2020 - February 14, 2020

LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge

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Deborah Luster joins more than 70 invited and gallery artists in the largest exhibition in the history of Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. The gallery says in its press release, "A time capsule for our period, Art in the Time of Empathy is an exploration of the human side of this moment, an opportunity for a community to pause and reflect on the many perspectives of a shared experience. "

The exhibition runs from October 3 to December 19, 2020, with an opening reception October 3 from 11am - 7pm in conjunction with Art Beyond Art's Sake. Arthur Roger Gallery is located at 432 Julia Street, New Orleans.

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_RESIDENCY
Deborah Luster is one of 37 artists granted a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center for their 2020 Artist-in-Residence program. “The 2020 artists’ work represents an incredible spectrum of formal and conceptual approaches, and an engagement with place, culture, identity, and the importance of the creative process in ways that feel timely and deeply meaningful,” said Toccarra A. H. Thomas, Director of the Joan Mitchell Center. “The residency program provides a platform for participants to continue to develop their work, share ideas and innovations, and to be inspired in new ways through dialogue with other artists, arts professionals, and the local community as well as by the unique history and culture of New Orleans."

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The exhibition Prison Nation by Aperture Foundation travels to Maryland and Massachusetts in late 2020 through the middle of 2021. Deborah Luster's Passion Play series features in this exhibition. The University of Maryland Baltimore County presents the exhibition from August 27, 2020 through December 17, 2020. The Davis Museum at Wellesley College presents it from February 4, 2021 through June 6, 2021.

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_PUBLICATION
Deborah Luster is featured in Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 pictures from the Pilara Foundation, edited by Allie Haeusslein. The book includes an essay by Luster on the photographer Mike Disfarmer.

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Deborah Luster will present her artist talk "Archive of Lamentations" at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh on November 21, 2019, at 6 pm. This presentation, one which Deborah has presented and refined over several years, describes the evolution of her series One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish, and Passion Play.

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Deborah Luster will be a visiting artist to the Duke University MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program from November 19 - 22, 2019.

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_PRESENTATION

As part of Arts & Letters Series hosted by the New Orleans Museum of Art in partnership with One Book One New Orleans, Zachary Lazar will present on his novel Vengeance, with Deborah Luster's photographs featured. The two will discuss their collaboration on Passion Play and Tooth for an Eye, and Deborah will present a video work. Trumpet player Mario Abney will open the evening. After some brief readings and performances, there will be a discussion moderated by essayist Garnette Cadogan.

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_AWARD

Deborah Luster is among 27 visual artists and 6 architects inducted as National Academicians of the National Academy of Design. The award, which cannot be applied for, is "one of the highest honors in American art and architecture." The National Academy describes its process, "In a tradition dating back to 1825, current members confidentially nominate and elect a new class each year, honoring the group’s remarkable contributions to the canon and story of American art."

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_LECTURE

Deborah Luster will deliver a lecture on her work at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, October 16th, 2018 at 7pm.

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Work from Deborah Luster's Tooth for an Eye series will be included in Art in the City in the fall of 2018. The exhibition by the Historic New Orleans Collection will be shown in the Collection's new Seignouret-Brulatour Building located at 520 Royal Street. The exhibition is presented by the Helis Foundation.

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