| 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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