DEBORAH BRIGHT

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2011          “Destruction Layer,” Center for Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

2009          “Destruction Layer,” Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI

2008          “Being & Riding,” Migdal Shalom Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008          “Being & Riding,” Fort Point Channel Gallery, Boston, MA

2006          “Being & Riding,” Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV

2005          “Being & Riding,” Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA

2002          “Manifest,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2000          “Being & Riding,” New England Foundation for the Arts Gallery, Boston, MA

2000          “Being & Riding,” Massachusetts Cultural Council Gallery, Boston, MA

1999          “Being & Riding,” Atrium Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut,

                              Storrs, CT

1998          “Being & Riding,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1998          “All That Is Solid,” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI

1997          “All That Is Solid,” Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

1996          “Being & Riding,” Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,  

                             Cambridge, MA

1996          “All That Is Solid,” Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

1995          “All That Is Solid,” Art Department Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

1992          “Chicago Stories,” University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

1992          “Chicago Stories,” Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,

                             New Brunswick, NJ

1990          “Chicago Stories,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Photo Department Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,

                             Boston, MA

1988          “Textual Landscapes,” University Art Museum, Binghamton State University,

                             Binghamton, NY

1987          “Beyond the Frame,” MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art, Minneapolis, MN

1986          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Photo Department Gallery, University of Southern Illinois,

                             Carbondale, IL

1986          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL

1985          “Battlefield Panorams,” Art Department Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago

                             Heights, IL

1983          “Goose Island Photographs,” Photography Gallery, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, CO

1983          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Wicker Park Art Projects Gallery, Chicago, IL

1983          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL

1982          “Battlefield Panoramas,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1982          “Photomural Installations,” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

1982          “Goose Island Photographs,” Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA

1981          “Goose Island Photographs,” Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College,

                             Oakton, IL

1980          “Goose Island Photographs,” BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA

1980          “Goose Island Photographs,” Intuitiveye Gallery, Washington, DC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 “Art After Stonewall, 1969-89,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2019 “Art After Stonewall, 1969-89,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, NY

“Five Artists,” AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Queer Forms,” Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

“The Portrait is Political,” BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 “Photographs and Paintings,” AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Bureau of General Services—Queer Division,” The LGBTQ Community Center, NY, NY

2017          “Performance & Photography,” Ernest G. Welch School of Fine Arts, Georgia State  

                             University, Atlanta, GA

2017          “Nasty Women,” Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2016          “Voyage of the Beagle,” Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2016          “The Ladies Almanack,” (film premier), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2016          “Cut-Ups,” Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY

2016          “Sublime Resonance,” The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute,

                             Brooklyn, NY

2015        “Homosexualities,” Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany 

2015          “On the Domestic Front,” Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC

2015          “The Artist as Provocateur,” Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute,

                             Brooklyn, NY

2014          “Permanent: Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection,” Leslie Lohman Museum of

                             Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY.

2013          “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” curated by

                             Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2013          “Benefit for the Lesbian Herstory Archives,” Alexander Gray & Associates, NYC

2012          “The Mutable Portrait,” Clifford Chance, New York, NY

2012          “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” Museum of

                             Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2012          “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” Walker Art Center,

                             Minneapolis, MN

2012          “The Mutable Portrait,” Clifford Chance, NYC

2012          "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," Brooklyn Museum, NY

2011          "Glacial Erratics, Plymouth, MA,” Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA

2011          “Faculty Biennial,” Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

2011          “Visiting Faculty Exhibition,” Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2010          "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," National Portrait Gallery,

                             Washington, DC

2009          “Faculty Biennial,” Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

2008          “This Show Needs You,” Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2008          “Pink and Bent,” Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY

2007          “Landscape: Fact and Fiction.” William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT

2006          “Don’t Know Much About History.” ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

2006          “Disturbing the Peace.” Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY

2006          “Queer Eye.” Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

2006          “Summer Show,” Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA

2005          “Visiting Faculty Exhibition,” Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2005          “375 Views of Boston on the City’s 375th Anniversary,” Boston City Hall, MA

2005          “The Art of Illness: Examining the Biomedical Paradigm,” SIUE Museum Gallery,

                             Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL

2005          “Soft Boundaries,” Biggins Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

2004          “Land of the Free,” Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2004          “BANG! Weapons and War,” Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2004          “Photography and Place,” Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI

2004          “On Location,” Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

2004          “Identities.” Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2003          “Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self.” International Center of

                             Photography, New York, NY (website)

2002          “Review/Preview: David Hilliard, Jocelyn Lee, Abelardo Morell, Deborah Bright,

                             Virginia Beahan, Laura McPhee.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2002          “Evidencing: Drawing with Light and Pixels.” College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ

2001          “Paradise In Search of a Future.” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2001          “Horse Tales: Two Centuries of American Cultural Icons.” Katonah Museum of Art,

                             Katonah, NY

2001          “Backroom.” jennjoy gallery, San Francisco, NY

1999          “What Will You Miss?” School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

1998          “Summer Show.” Debs and Co., New York, NY

1998          “Stay: Transience and Sentimentality.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1998          “Expanded Visions: Panoramic Photographs.” Addison Gallery of American Art,

                             Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

1998          “Troubling Customs.” Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario

1998          “Troubling Customs.” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1998          “Subjects.” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1998          “Work/Space.” Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

1997          “New England Women Photographers.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

1997          “Public Views: Landscape.” Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, MA

1996          “Work/Space.” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1996          “Gender, fucked.” Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

1996          “Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.” Canadian Museum of

                             Contemporary Photography, Ottawa

1996          “Beyond the Print.” NewSpace Gallery, Manchester Community College,

                             Manchester, CT

1996          “Lesbian and Bisexual Lives; hidden lives revealed.” Fort Point Arts

                             Community Gallery, Boston, MA

1995          “Fellows in Visual Arts.” Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1995          “No Place to Hide.” Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995          “Global Sweatshop.” Art In General, New York, NY

1995          “Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.” Victoria and Albert

                             Museum, London (traveled to Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Sheffield

                             and Paisley)

1995          “Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.”

                             Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam

1994          “Diagnosis: Breast Cancer.” Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY

1994          “Diagnosis: Breast Cancer.” Peter Madero Gallery, New York, NY

1994          “Lesbian Voices in the Arts.” Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

1994          “Stonewall: Breakthroughs.” 494 Gallery, New York, NY

1994          “Telling. . .Stories.” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994          “REAL STORIES: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative.” Museum Folkwang,

                             Essen, Germany

1993          “2 Much: The Gay and Lesbian Experience.” Lucy R. Lippard, curator.

                             UMC Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO

1993          “REAL STORIES: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative.”

                  Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

1993          “New Acquisitions.” RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

1992          “A Relatively Narrow Space: Perspectives on Self Representation.”

                             Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1992          “REAL STORIES: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative.”

                             Museet for Foto Kunst, Odense, Denmark

1992          “Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography.”                              

                             National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1992          “Landscape, Politics and Culture.” University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University,

                             Las Cruces, NM

1992          “Body Takes.” Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario

1992          “Curdled Nature.” Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA

1992          “On A Queer Day You Can See Forever.” Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992          “The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs.”

                             Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1991          “Working: Six Media Installations.” Artists Space, New York, NY

1991          “Lost Illusions: Recent Landscape Art.” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1991          “Outrageous Desire: The Aesthetics and Politics of Representation.”

                             Walters Hall Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1991          “Women In and Around the Documentary Tradition.”

                             Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

1991          “Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs.” Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1991          “Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs.” Cambridge Darkroom,

                             Cambridge, England

1991          “Visible For A Change.” Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1990          “Sexuality and the Politics of Obscenity.” Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

1990          “Polemical Landscapes.” California Museum of Photography, University of California at

                             Riverside, CA

1990          “Four Photo Feminisms: Deborah Bright, Diane Neumaier, Martha Rosler,

                             Clarissa Sligh.” Walters Hall Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1989          “Landscape At Risk.” Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

1989          “Fix It.” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

1988          “That’s What It’s All About.” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT

1988          “Boston Area Women Artists.” Salem State College, Salem, MA

1987          “Boston Now: Projects.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1986          “Expanding Commitment: Diverse Approaches to Socially Concerned Photography.”

                             Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1986          “Photomosaics: The Landscape Reconstructed.” Photo Resource Center, Boston, MA

1986          “Images of War.” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

1985          “Wide Perspectives.” Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College,

                             Chicago, IL

1985          “This Is Not About the Artist’s Ego.” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985          “Chicago Photographers Project.” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

1985          “Artists Call Against Intervention in Latin America.” Puerto Rican Cultural Center,

                             Chicago, IL

1984          “Tenth Anniversary Show.” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

1984          “A Year in Grant Park.” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

1984          “Midwest Photographers Exhibition.” Lightfantastic Gallery, Michigan State University,

                             East Lansing, MI

1984          “Chicago: The Architectural City.” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1982          “Unseen Light: Contemporary Color Photography.” Buscaglia-Castellani Gallery,

Niagara, NY

1982          “New Acquisitions.” California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

1982          “Five Photographers.” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981          “Chicago Photographers.” Wicker Park Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

1981          “Recent Acquisitions.” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1980          “Midwest Photography Invitational.” University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI

1980          “Illinois Photographers 1980.” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

1979          “Upper Midwest Color Print Show.” Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI

1978          “Illinois Photographers 1978.” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL  

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA

California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside, CA

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

State of Illinois Center Permanent Collection, Chicago, IL

Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA

University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY