Deborah Luster

"Deborah Luster (1951-) attended photography workshops with: Larry Clark, Larry Fink, Keith Carter, Linda Conner, William Christenberry, George Tice and others. She took photography classes at Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC, 1989-1990, and Graduate writing courses, University of Arkansas, 1977-1979 University of Arkansas, 1970-1976
She has had many solo exhibitions including: One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, 2004, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2003
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Arts in the Edge, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2003
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Faulkner Festival, Basetti Gallery, New Orleans, 2002
One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Galveston Arts Center Galveston, Texas, 2002
Come Shining: The Spiritual South, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, 1999 and
Come Shining, Poets Theater, New York, 1997.
Her work has also been included in a number of group exhibitions: Common Ground”, Selections from the Collection of Julia L Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
SF Moma, San Francisco, CA 2004, Male Body Image, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, curated by Janet Prichard and Barry Rosenberg, 2004, Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004 and
Visualizing the Blues, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 2000. Touring through 2004.. Her work is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC
Luster has been awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2002 The John Guttman Photography Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, 2002, Bucksbaum Family Award for American Photography, 2001 Artist-in-Residence, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina, 2001 Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, 2000-2001 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Publication Grant, 2000-2001 Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University (with C.D. Wright), 2000 Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear, Emerging Artist Grant, 1994 North Carolina Arts Council, Visual Arts Project Grant, 1992-93 North Carolina Arts Council, Folklife Project Grant, 1992-93 (with Mike Luster) for NCCFP)"