Activity | Selected Solo/Two-Artist Exhibitions
2021 “Deborah Bright: Small Appliances,” Spantzo Gallery, NYC
2021 “FLEX: Deborah Bright and Cecilia André,” The Yard, Williamsburg, NYC
2011 “Deborah Bright: Destruction Layer,” Ctr. For Visual Arts, U. of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2011 “Deborah Bright: Glacial Erratic, Plymouth, MA,” Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA
2009 “Deborah Bright: Destruction Layer,” Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
2008 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Migdal Shalom Gallery, Tel Aviv, IS
2008 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Ft. Point Channel Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
2005 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Bridgewater State Univ., Bridgewater, MA
2002 “Deborah Bright: Manifest,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 “Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid,” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2000 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” NEFA Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Mass. Cultural Council Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 “Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid,” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
1997 “Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid,” Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
1995 “Deborah Bright: Being & Riding,” Rothschild Gallery, Harvard University, MA
1992 “Deborah Bright: Chicago Stories,” University Art Gallery UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
1992 “Deborah Bright: Chicago Stories,” Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers Univ.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 “HUQ” I Seek No Favor,” Gallery 5, San Jose State U., San Jose, CA
2022 “Past is Prologue: History in Contemporary Art,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2021 “Spring Break Art Fair,” (booth curated by Nate Garcia), NYC
2021 “Mighty Joy,” Spantzo Gallery, NYC
2020 “Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2020 “USA 35x35 Project,” Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
2019 “Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989,” Grey Art Gallery, NYU, NYC
2019 “Five Artists,” AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2019 “Queer Forms,” Katherine Nash Gallery, Univ . of Minn., Minneapolis, MN
2019 “The Other Is You: Queer Portraits,” BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 “Photographs and Paintings,” AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2018 “Cast of Characters,” Bureau of Gen’l Services—Queer Division, LGBTQ Ctr, NYC
2017 “Performance and Photography,” Welch School of Fine Arts, Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA
2017 “Nasty Women,” Knockdown Center, Queens, NYC
2016 “Voyage of the Beagle,” Radiator Gallery, Queens, NYC
2016 “Cut-Ups,” Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, NYC
2016 “Sublime Resonance,” Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Inst., Brooklyn NYC
2015 “Homosexualities,: Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015 “The Artist as Provocateur,” Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, NYC
2013 “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” ICA, Boston, MA
2012 “The Mutable Portrait,” Clifford Chance, NYC
2012 “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” MCA, Chicago, IL
2012 “This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2012 “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2010 “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2008 “This Show Needs You,” ICA, San Jose, CA
2008 “Pink and Bent,” Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC
2006 “Don’t Know Much About History,” ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2006 “Disturbing the Peace,” Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC
2005 “Faculty Exhibition,” Carpenter Ctr., Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA
2005 “Soft Boundaries,” Biggins Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2005 “375 Views of Boston,” Boston City Hall, MA
2004 “Land of the Free,” Clifford Gallery, Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY
2004 “Photography and Place,” Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI
2004 “On Location,” Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2004 “Identities,” Northlight Gallery, Ariz. State Univ., Tempe, AZ
2003 “Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,” ICP Triennial, NYC
2002 “Review/Preview,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 “Paradise In Search of a Future,” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2001 “Horse Tales,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1992 "Stolen Glances," Camerawork, London
Selected Public Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Boston Atheneum, Boston, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
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