Deborah Bright - Rhode Island School of Design

DEBORAH BRIGHT
Interim Dean of Fine Arts
Rhode Island school of design
dbright@risd.edu
www.deborahbright.com
SOLO, TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2009
“Deborah Bright: Destruction Layer.” Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence, RI
2008
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” Migdal Shalom Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“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 University, Bridgewater, MA
2002
“Deborah Bright: Manifest.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” New England Foundation for the Arts Gallery,
Boston, MA
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” Massachusetts Cultural Council Gallery,
Boston, MA
1999
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” Atrium Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University
of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1998
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid.” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
1997
“Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid.” Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Woodruff Arts
Center, Atlanta, GA
1996
“Deborah Bright: Being & Riding.” Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid.” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of
California, Santa Cruz, CA
1995
“Deborah Bright: All That Is Solid.” Art Department Gallery, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY
1992
“Deborah Bright: Chicago Stories.” University Art Gallery, University of California,
Irvine, CA

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“Deborah Bright: Chicago Stories.” Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
1990
“Deborah Bright: Chicago Stories.” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Photography Dept. Gallery, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, MA
1988
“Deborah Bright: Textual Landscapes.” University Art Museum, State University
of New York at Binghamton. NY
1987
“Beyond the Frame: Deborah Bright and Jeff Weiss, “MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, MN
1986
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Photography Department Gallery,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1985
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
1983
“Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs.” Photography Dept. Gallery,
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Wicker Park Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL
1982
“Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas.” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
“Deborah Bright: Photomural Installations.” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
“Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs.” Project Art Center, Cambridge, MA
1981
“Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs.” Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community
College, Oakton, IL
1980
“Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs.” BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA
“Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs.” Intuitiveye Gallery, Washington, DC
1978
“Deborah Bright: Polaroid Explorations.” Facets Gallery, Chicago IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
“The Greatest Lesbian Photography Show,” Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
“This Show Needs You,” Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
“Pink and Bent,” Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 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
“Disturbing the Peace.” Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Queer Eye.” Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
“Summer Show,” Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
“VES New Faculty Exhibition,” Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“375 Views of Boston on the City’s 375 th Anniversary,” Boston City Hall, MA
“The Art of Illness: Examining the Biomedical Paradigm,” SIUE Museum Gallery,
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL
“Soft Boundaries,” Biggins Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2004
“Land of the Free,” Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
“BANG! Weapons and War,” Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
“Photography and Place,” Museum of Art, Rhode Is. School of Design, Providence, RI
“On Location,” Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
“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: Work by David Hilliard, Jocelyn Lee, Abelardo Morell, Deborah Bright,
Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Evidencing: Drawing with Light and Pixels.” College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ
2001
“Paradise In Search of a Future.” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Horse Tales: Two Centuries of American Cultural Icons.” Katonah Museum of Art,
Katonah, NY
“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
“Stay: Transience and Sentimentality.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“Expanded Visions: Panoramic Photographs.” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA
“Troubling Customs.” Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario
“Troubling Customs.” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Subjects.” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
“Work/Space.” Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1997
“New England Women Photographers.” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Public Views: Landscape.” Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, MA
1996
“Work/Space.” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“Gender, fucked.” Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
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“Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.” Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
“Beyond the Print.” NewSpace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
“Lesbian and bisexual lives; hidden lives revealed.” Fort Point Arts Community Gallery,
Boston, MA
1995
“Fellows in Visual Arts.” Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
“No Place to Hide.” Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Global Sweatshop.” Art In General, New York, NY
“Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.” Victoria and Albert Museum,
London (traveled to Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Sheffield and Paisley)
“Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War.” Nederlands Foto Instituut,
Rotterdam
1994
“Diagnosis: Breast Cancer.” Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Diagnosis: Breast Cancer.” Peter Madero Gallery, New York, NY
“Lesbian Voices In the Arts.” Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
“Stonewall: Breakthroughs.” 494 Gallery, New York, NY
“Telling. . .Stories.” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
“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
“REAL STORIES: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative. “Fotomuseum, Winterthur,
Switzerland
“New Acquisitions.” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992
“A Relatively Narrow Space: Perspectives on Self Representation.” Artemisia Gallery,
Chicago, IL
“REAL STORIES: Revisions in Documentary and Narrative.” Museet for Foto Kunst,
Odense, Denmark
“Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography.” National
Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
“Landscape, Politics and Culture.” University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM
“Body Takes.” Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
“Curdled Nature.” Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA
“On A Queer Day You Can See Forever.” Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“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
“Lost Illusions: Recent Landscape Art.” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
“Outrageous Desire: The Aesthetics and Politics of Representation.” Walters Hall Gallery,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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“Women In and Around the Documentary Tradition.” Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College,
Oneonta, NY
“Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs.” Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs.” Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
“Visible For A Change.” Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1990
“Sexuality and the Politics of Obscenity.” Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
“Polemical Landscapes.” California Museum of Photography, University of California at
Riverside, CA
“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
“Fix It.” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1988
“That’s What It’s All About.” Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
“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
“Photomosaics: The Landscape Reconstructed.” Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
“Images of War.” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1985
“Wide Perspectives.” Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
“This Is Not About the Artist’s Ego.” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Chicago Photographers Project.” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
“Artists Call Against Intervention in Latin America.” Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1984
“Tenth Anniversary Show.” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
“A Year in Grant Park.” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
“Midwest Photographers Exhibition.” Lightfantastic Gallery, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI
“Chicago: The Architectural City.” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1982
“Unseen Light: Contemporary Color Photography.” Buscaglia-Castellani Gallery, Niagara, NY
“New Acquisitions.” California Museum of Photography, University of California at
Riverside, CA
“Five Photographers.” Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981
“Chicago Photographers.” Wicker Park Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Recent Acquisitions.” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
1980
“Midwest Photography Invitational.” University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
“Illinois Photographers 1980.” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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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
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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
SELECTED HONORS
Artist in Residence Grant, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2001
Artist Grant, Massachusetts Arts Council, 1999
Finalist, Visual Arts, Lambda Literary Awards, 1999
Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard
University, 1995
Somerville (MA) Arts Lottery Grant, 1995
Artist Grant, Art Matters, 1994
New Forms Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, 1992
David and Reva Logan Award, Photographic Resource Center, 1989
National Endowment for the Arts, 1988
Artist Grant, Illinois Arts Council, 1986
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985
Artist Grant, Illinois Arts Council, 1983
Purchase Award, Illinois State Museum, 1980
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bill Van Siclen, “RISD Biennial is politics-free,” Providence Journal, Feb. 26, 2009
Holland Cotter, “Disturbing the Peace,” New York Times, Friday, May 26, 2006.
Denez McAdoo, “A Different View,” The Mass Media (UMass, Boston), 10-11.

Terry Maddox, “The Art of Illness: Prognosis is good,” Belleville News-Democrat,
January 22, 2005, C1.
Ivy Cooper, “Distaff Meeting,” Riverfront Times, January 19-25, 2005, 34.
Nancy Brokaw, “Making It Real,” The Photo Review, 25:4, 2003, 14-17.
Shawn Hill, “Deborah Bright at Bernard Toale Gallery,” artsMEDIA, February/March
2002, pp 8-9.
Cate McQuaid, “Deborah Bright: Manifest,” Boston Globe, January 12, 2002.
Paul Parcellin, “Art Around the Town: Deborah Bright,” Retro-Rocket.com, Boston’s
Journal of Visual Art, Film, Video, February 2, 2002.
Lewisboro Ledger, “Horse Tales: American Images and Icons,” October 4, 2001.
Christopher West Davis, “Affairs of the horse,” New York Times Westchester, November
4, 2001.
Erin Valentino, The Passionate Camera (review), International Journal of Sexuality
and Gender Studies, 5:3, July 2000, pp 289-93.
Margaret R. Higonnet, ed. Lines of Fire: Women Writers and World War I, New
York and London: Plume, p. 559.
Grant Kester, The Passionate Camera (review), Art Journal, Winter 1999.
Martha Buskirk, Fractured Mirrors/Broken Windows (review), Art On Paper, December 1999.
Geoffrey Batchen, “Constructing Intelligibility,” Camerawork 26:2, Fall/Winter 1999, pp 4-7.
Cate McQuaid, "Black-hole visions, interrupted yoga, and anger," Boston Globe, Oct. 7, 1999.
Gary Duehr, "Taken as a whole, 'Fractured Mirrors' sends a message," Boston
townonline.com website, September 27, 1999.
Anna Scott, "Exhibit celebrates diversity and rebellion," Boston University Bridge, Sept. 21, 1999.
Gen Doy, The Passionate Camera (review), The Art Book, 6:3, June 1999, p. 48.
Martha Buskirk, "Art Around the Hub," Art in America, June 1999, pp 57-63.
Eloy J. Hernandez, "Lens of Desire," Afterimage, March/April 1999, p. 19.
Cynthia Young, "Rochester's Women and Photography conference," Afterimage, July/August
1998, p 2.
Miles Unger, “Deborah Bright at Bernard Toale Gallery,” Art New England, June/July 1998, p 33.
Shawn Hill, “Transience and Sentimentality at the ICA,” artsMEDIA, May 1998,p 24.
Mary Sherman, “Is art really location, location, location?” The TAB, April 1-13, 1998, p 9B.
Marcia Morphy, "Image-makers: Eight prominent women photographers present lectures
in collaborative symposium," Brighton-Pittsford Post, March 30, 1998.
Elizabeth Forbes, "Feminist Focus: Photography conference highlights the work and
influence of women," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 29, 1998, 3C.
Christopher Mills, “Hubba, hubba: A sexy Boston art show at the ICA,” Boston Phoenix,
Arts section, March 20, 1998, p 13.
Shawn Hill, “Background stories,” Bay Windows, March 12, 1998, p 29.
Scott Rothkopf, “Modernism to Kitsch and Right Back Again,” Harvard Crimson, March 6, 1998.
Cate McQuaid, “Galloping passion of girls for horses,” Boston Globe, March 5, 1998, p E1.
Lia Gangitano, “On Leaving,” catalog essay for Transience and Sentimentality, Boston:
Institute of Contemporary Art, 1998.
Christina LeBeau, "Art Imitates Work," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 2, 1998, 1F.
Christine Temin, “Lumpy stew of Boston-linked art,” Boston Globe, February 27, 1998.
Expanded Visions: The Panoramic Photograph, exhibition catalogue, Andover: The
Addison Gallery of American Art, 1998.
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Bill Van Siclen, “Focusing on the post-industrial landscape,” Providence Journal,
January 23, 1998.
Gayle Nelson, "Bright Eyes Industrial Wasteland,"Siren magazine, March 1998.
Stephanie Ellis, "Work/Space: Visual Relations Incorporate," parallax, No. 5, September 1997.
Harper's Magazine, August 1997, (reproduction) p 28.
Linda Wong, "Interview with Deborah Bright," Sojourner, June 1997.
Who's Who of American Women 1997-present, Marquis Publications.
Lucy R. Lippard, The Lure of the Local, New York: The New Press, 1997.
Cathy Byrd, "Solid Gold: Deborah Bright at Atlanta College of Art," Creative Loafing,
February 22, 1997.
Jerry Cullum, "Any way you want it," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 7, 1997.
Grant Kester, "Swept Away: Deborah Bright and the Fossils of Late Capitalism," All That
Is Solid, (Christopher Scoates, ed.) Atlanta: Atlanta College of Art,1997.
Michael Budd, "Framing Capitalism," Afterimage, November/December 1996.
Jeff Hoone, "Deborah Bright," Contact Sheet, Fall 1996.
Katrina Roberts, "Erotic Horseplay," Harvard Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 1996.
Catherine Lord, "Unsolved Crimes,"Gender, fucked, Seattle: Center on Contemporary Art,
1996.
Sheila Farr, "Gender discomforts," Seattle Weekly, July 31, 1996.
Matthew Kangas, "Lesbians express angry feelings through art," The Seattle Times,
July 15, 1996.
Tricia Romano, "gender, fucked?" The Daily of the University of Washington, July10, 1996.
Lucy R. Lippard, "Undertones: Ten Cultural Landscapes," in Diane Neumaier, ed.,
Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1995.
Martha Vicinus, ed., Lesbian Subjects, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Marsha Meskimmon, The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self Portraiture in the 20th
Century, London: Scarlet Press, 1996.
Shawn Hill, "Herself as subject," Bay Windows, February 1, 1996.
Patty Caya, "What Is Photography?" Cambridge Chronicle, October 19, 1995.
Lucy R. Lippard, The Pink Glass Swan, New York: The New Press, 1995.
Jane Richards, "War, a female perspective," The Independent, January 22, 1995.
Val Williams, "Prints of darkness," The Guardian Weekly, January 22, 1995.
Amanda Hopkinson, "Pieces of war," The British Journal of Photography, January 18, 1995.
Sacha Craddock, "Around The Galleries," The Times, January 17, 1995.
Jane Ehrlich, "Warworks on show," The American, December 16, 1994.
Val Williams, Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War, London:
Virago, 1994.
Kiss & Tell, Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies, Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1994.
Clare Whatling, "Fostering the Illusion," in Diane Hamer et al., The Good, The Bad
and The Gorgeous, London: Pandora, 1994.
Emanuel Cooper, The Sexual Perspective, London: Routledge, 1994.
Naomi Rosenblum, A History of Women Photogaphers, New York: Addison House, 1994.
Alisa Solomon, "Not Just A Passing Fancy: Note on Butch," Theatre, 24:2, 1993.
B. Ruby Rich, "The Authenticating Goldfish," 1993 Biennial catalogue, Whitney Museum of
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American Art, 1993.
Jan-Erik Lundstrom, "Real Stories," Katalog, June 1992.
Cathy Cade, "Stolen Glances," Off Our Backs, July 1992.
Cathy Curtis, "Symbolism Etched in Stone," Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1992.
Kelly Wise, "Bracing and original landscapes by women," Boston Globe, March 4, 1992.
Grant Kester, "Slouching Toward Clarity," The New Art Examiner, February-March 1992.
Noreen C. Barnes, "What Makes Us Lesbians?" Bay Area Reporter, Feb. 20, 1992.
Roberta Smith, "Working," New York Times, January 10, 1992.
Jill Pollack, "Sign of intelligent life," Vancouver Courier, December 1, 1991.
John Bentley Mays, "Lost Illusions," Globe and Mail, November 16, 1991.
Denise Oleksijczuk, "Nature in History: A Context for Landscape Art," Lost Illusions: Recent
Landscape Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1991.
Jean Fraser and Tessa Boffin, "Tantalizing Glimpses of Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take
Photographs," Feminist Review, 38, Summer 1991.
Doug Ischar, "Labor Stories: Constructive Criticism in the City That Works," Afterimage,
Summer 1991.
Alexander M. Frankfurter, "Sexuality and the Politics of Obscenity," Views, Spring 1991.
Mark Alice Durant, "Lost and Found," Artscribe, January 1991.
Andrea Liss, "Doom With A View," Afterimage, December 1990.
Leigh Kane, Four Photo Feminisms, New Bruswick: Rutgers University, 1990.
Karen Bousquet-Penhallow, "Hera makes contribution to freedom of expression," Narragansett
Times, November 14, 1990.
Johnette Rodriguez, "Dirty Pictures? Personal Politics at Hera," The New Paper, November 1,
1990.
Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, "Landscape vs. Environment," Spot, Winter 1990.
Joan Hugo, "Reading the Landscape," Artweek, July 5, 1990.
Peter Goin, "The Nuclear Survey," Center Quarterly, 45, 1990.
Edward W. Earle, Polemical Landscapes, Riverside: California Museum of Photography, 1990.
Bill Van Siclen, "RISD's Staff: They practice what they teach," Providence Journal,
October 9, 1988.
Nancy Gonchar, Deborah Bright: Textual Landscapes, (exhibition catalogue) Binghamton:
The University Art Museum at SUNY, 1988.
Vince Leo, "Photography's New Frontier," Artpaper, February 1988.
Julie Yanson, Beyond the Frame, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1988.
David Bonnetti, "Installment Plans," Boston Phoenix, July 3, 1987.
Charles Giuliano, "Boston Now: Projects," Art New England, September 1987.
Ken Johnson, "Boston Now: Projects," The New Art Examiner, November 1987.
Daniel Scott, "Environmental Visions," South End News, July 2, 1987.
Nancy Stapen, "Topical winds blow through 'Boston Now,'" Boston Herald, July 3, 1987.
Robert Taylor, "Art that widens the boundaries," Boston Globe, June 29, 1987.
Henry Scarupa, "Photography with a political conscience," Baltimore Sun, March 18, 1986.
Kelly Wise, "Landscapes as assemblages," Boston Globe, March 31, 1986.
Anita Douthat, Photomosaics, Boston: Photographic Resource Center, 1986.
Richard Huntington, "Images of war," Buffalo News, November 29, 1985.
Alan Thomas, "Political Photographs," The New Art Examiner, March 1985.
Susan Blake, "Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas," The New Art Examiner, February 1983.
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John Alderson, "Deborah Bright: Battlefield Panoramas," Chicago Sun-Times, January 2, 1983.
Anthony Bannon, "Artists Cast New Light on Photos," Buffalo Evening News,
September 23, 1982.
Hedy Weiss, "Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs," The New Art Examiner,
March 1982.
David Elliot, "Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs," Chicago Sun-Times, January 22, 1982.
James Cassell, "Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs," The Washington Star,
October 25, 1980.
Carole Harmel, "Deborah Bright: Goose Island Photographs," The New Art Examiner, April 1980.
Chuck Nicholson, "Nighttime Views," Artweek, October 25, 1980.
CURATORIAL
1999 “Fractured Mirrors/Broken Windows: In the Marketplace of Private Life.” Bakalar
Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA. Works by The Art of Change,
Mohini Chandra, Kaucyila Brooke, Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge, Sunil
Gupta,Yoshio Itagaki, Ho Tam.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (by Deborah Bright)
Books
Deborah Bright, ed. The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire.
London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
Published Essays
“Queer Plymouth,” (with Erica Rand). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies), Vol. 12,
No. 2 (2006).
“Horse Crazy,” Horse Tales: Two Centuries of American Cultural Icons.” Katonah: Katonah
Museum of Art, 2001.
“Shopping the Leftovers: Warhol’s collecting strategies in Raid The Icebox I,” Other Objects of
Desire, eds. Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
“Currencies of the Body,” Harvard Photography Journal, Visual and Environmental Studies
Program. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2001.
“Back to Basics: The New Paintings of Julie Shelton Smith,” Rebuilding the Body: Julie
Shelton Smith, Newport: Newport Art Museum, 2001.
“Souvenirs of Progress: The Second Empire Landscapes,” The Photography of Adolph Braun,
Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1999.
“Mirrors and Window Shoppers,” OverExposed (Carol Squiers, ed.), New York: The New
Press, 1999.
“Pictures, Perverts and Politics,” The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire,
London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
“Exposing Family Values: Family Photography and Sexual Dissent,” A Family Affair
(Christopher Scoates, ed.), Atlanta: Atlanta College of Art Gallery, 1995.
“Sex Wars: Photography on the Frontlines,” exposure 29:2/3, 1994.

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“Reactionary Modernism: Lee Friedlander’s Nudes for the Nineties,”Afterimage, January 1993.
“Family Practices,” Views, 13:3, Summer1992.
“The Machine in the Garden Revisited: American Environmentalism and Photographic
Aesthetics,” Art Journal, 51:2, Summer1992.
“Lesbians, Photography and AIDS,” Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs (Tessa Boffin
and Jean Fraser, eds), London: Pandora, 1991.
“Paradise Recycled: Art, Ecology, and the End of Nature,” Afterimage, September 1990.
“Victory Gardens: The Public Landscape of Postwar America,” Views, Spring1990.
“Wait Till Donald Trump Buys the Whitney,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 29:1, Winter 1990.
“Engendered Dilemmas,” Views, Spring1989.
Option/Shift (with Esther Parada), co-authored book project, Art Department, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1988.
“Confusing My Students, Eating My Words,” exposure, 26:2/3, 1988.
“The ‘Other Body’ of British Photography, Afterimage, November 1987.
“Public Projections and Private Images, Afterimage, May 1987.
“Landscape As Photograph,” exposure, 25:1, 1987.
“The Museum Under Fire,” Afterimage, January 1987.
“Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry Into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape
Photography,” exposure, 23:1, 1985.
“Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen,” Afterimage, Summer1985.
“Once Upon A Time In The West,” Afterimage, October 1984.
“Before Photography,” The New Art Examiner, June 1982. “Double-Edged Constructions: The
Work of Barbara Crane,” Afterimage, October 1981.
“Transformations in Photography,” The New Art Examiner, July 1981.
“By Arrangement,” The New Art Examiner, February 1981.
“Reconsidering the Stieglitz Era,” The New Art Examiner, March 1980.
“Michael Bishop and The Mystique of Mediocrity,” The New Art Examiner, April 1979.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Rhode Island School of Design
Photography and Art History Departments (Joint Appointment)
Interim Dean of Fine Arts, 2009-2011
Department Head, Photography, 2007-2009
Graduate Program Coordinator, Photography, 1996-2001
Professor, 1999-
Associate Professor, 1993-1999
Assistant Professor, 1989-1993
Harvard University
Visual and Environmental Studies Program
Shirley Carter Burden Visiting Professor of Photography, 2005
Visiting Faculty in Photography, 2002, 2000

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University of Massachusetts, Boston
Art Department
Assistant Professor, 1986-88
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Art Department
Lecturer in Studio Art/Art History, 1979-1986
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Photography Department
Visiting Faculty, 1985-86
Illinois Institute of Technology
Visiting Faculty, Photography, 1984-85
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Critic, Anderson Ranch Art Center, 2007, 2009
Juror, Wickford, RI, Art Association Invitational, 2009
Chair, External Review Committee, Art Dept., Scripps College, 2008
Panelist, Student Fulbright Fellowships in Photography, 2003-05
Juror, Invitational, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI 2004
Juror, Superstar: Female Gender Outlaws, Jaffe Arts Center, Norfolk, VA, 2001
Juror, Boit Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2001
Juror, Photography Grants for New York upstate artists, Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca,
New York, 2000
External Review Committee of the Graduate Programs/School of the
Arts, University of California at Irvine, 1999
Short-term critic, European Honors Program in Rome, Rhode Island School of
Design, 1997
Review Committee, Photography, Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowships, Harvard
University, 1997, 1999
Studio Program Chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 1996
Appointed Member, Committee on Cultural Diversity, College Art Association, 1995-98
Appointed Member, Publications Committee, Photographic Resource Center,
Boston, 1995-96
Chair, Visiting Review Committee, Department of Art, Bates College, 1993
Panelist-Juror, Visual Artists Organizations Grants, National Endowment for the Arts,
1992 and 1993
Publications Committee Chair, Society for Photographic Education, 1991-93
Panelist-Juror, Challenge Grants and Overview, National Endowment for the Arts, 1992
Panelist-Juror, Visual Artist Forums and Art In Public Places, National Endowment
for the Arts, 1992
Juror, David and Reva Logan Awards for Photography Criticism, 1991
Juror, Photography Grants, Rhode Island Council for the Arts, 1991
Elected Member, Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education, 1987-91

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Panelist-Juror, Visual Artist Forums Grants, National Endowment for the Arts, 1991
Coordinator, Faculty Symposium, The 90s: Fin de siecle or vision of the future?, Rhode
Island School of Design, 1990
Co-director, Symposium, New Options/Working Solutions, Photographic Resource
Center, Boston, MA, 1989
Program chair, National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education,
Houston, TX, 1988
Elected Representative, Women's Caucus, Society for Photographic Education,
1986-87
Assistant Editor, New Art Examiner, 1985-86
Art director, The American Judicature Society, Chicago, 1977-79
Art director, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, University of Chicago, 1975-79
Published free-lance editorial cartoonist, 1975-80
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Association of Critics of Art (AICA)
College Art Association (CAA)
Society for Photographic Education (SPE)
Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies, CUNY (CLAGS)
EDUCATION
MFA Committee on Art and Design, University of Chicago, 1975
BA High Honors, Art, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 1972
Diplome Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), Cours de la civilization française, 1971
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
Tulane University, 2009
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005, 1999, 1996
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2005
Bates College, 2005
Bridgewater State University, 2005
University of Hartford, 2004, 1994
Arizona State University, 2004,1996
Smith College, 2003
Harvard University 2002, 1998, 1995, 1994
University of Memphis 2002
SUNY Stonybrook 2002
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2002
School of the Museum of Fine Arts 2002, 2000, 1995, 1992
University of Arizona 2001
Rochester Institute of Technology 2001

Old Dominion University 2001
Yale University 2000, 1992
University of Delaware 2000
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2000, 1998, 1995
Tisch School of the Arts 2000
University of Chicago 2000
University of Northern Iowa 2000
North Carolina State University 1999
Montserrat College of Art 1999, 1993
Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco 1999
Brandeis University 1999, 1998
California Institute of the Arts 1999, 1991, 1985
Scripps College 1999
Pomona College 1999
Santa Fe Art Institute 1998
University of Rochester 1998
University of Pennsylvania 1997
University of Massachusetts, Boston 1997, 1987
Georgia State University 1997
Maryland Institute College of Art 1997
California College of Arts and Crafts 1996
Brown University 2008, 1996, 1993, 1992
Wellesley College 1996
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1996, 1986
University of Illinois, Chicago 1996, 1985
Cranbrook Academy of Art 1995
University of Connecticut 1995
Colgate University 2004, 1995
Massachusetts College of Art 2007, 1995, 1994, 1989
University of Michigan 1995
University of Iowa 1994
Simmons College 1994, 1991
Tufts University 1994
University of California, Riverside 1994
Barnard College 1993, 1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1993, 1992
Pennsylvania State University 1993
University of California, Irvine 1992, 1991
Rutgers University 1992, 1988
St. Lawrence University 1991
University of British Columbia 1991
University of California, Los Angeles 1991
Carleton College 1990
University of Illinois, Champaign 1990
Nova Scotia College of Art 1990
University of Rhode Island 1990
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University of Colorado 1988
Syracuse University 1988
Ithaca College 1988
Rhode Island School of Design 1987
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1986
Ohio State University 1986
Minneapolis College of Art and Design 1985
TELEVISION APPEARANCES
In The Life, segment on “Lesbian Art in America,” aired April 2001
Culture Shock: The Shock of the Nude, PBS (WGBS), aired January 2000