Person DS/UK/534 Bright; Deborah (1950 -); Photographer, Writer, Painter Bright Deborah 1950 - Photographer, Writer, Painter

Deborah Bright lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Fogg Museum, Harvard; Addison Gallery of American Art; Katonah Museum of Art; Leslie-Lohman Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; the Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Vancouver Art Gallery; and included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum; National Museum of American Art; Addison Gallery of American Art; Fogg Art Museum; Leslie-Lohman Museum, Boston Athenaeum, Rose Art Museum; California Museum of Photography and the RISD Museum. She has received numerous grants and awards for her art and critical writing and edited a noted book on queer photography, The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire. After a productive three decades of practice and writing in photography, Bright returned to her first loves—painting and drawing—to express thoughts, memories and feelings that have few analogs in the physical world. The drawings and paintings mine an eclectic mix of queer, pop, psychedelic and text-based sources, charged by vivid colors and dynamic compositions where naturalistically rendered forms intertwine with abstract shapes and symbols. 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 Dusseault, Ruth, 'Deborah Bright', Art Papers, 21 (1997) p. 45. 'About', Deborah Bright, <https://www.deborahbright.art/about1> [accessed 17 January 2024] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes edliu 03/04/2024 edliu 03/04/2024 889d7551-765b-4cfb-a0b7-8fbd717e8e4b