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Debra
Priestly
Strange Fruit #25, 2007
Acrylic, digital photo transfer and resin on wood panel
80 x 24 inches
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Born
Springfield, Ohio
Lives and Works in New York City |
Education |
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MFA,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BFA,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2007 |
Debra Priestly:
passage: paintings and works on paper, June Kelly Gallery, New
York
Debra Priestly, Bronx River Art Center Inc., New York |
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2005 |
somewhere listening, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2003 |
The Persistence of
Memory, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury,
Long Island, NY
Debra Priestly, curated by Dr. Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace
Gallery,
SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York |
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2002 |
Debra Priestly, New Gallery, Hopkins Hall, The Ohio State
University,
Columbus, OH; catalogue
Preserves, essay by Franklin Sirmans, June Kelly Gallery, New
York; catalogue |
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1999 |
Lookin
Glass, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1996 |
Caddisworm
Chronicles, essay by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, June Kelly
Gallery,
New York |
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1994 |
Patoka,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1990 |
Beaux
Arts Collectors Gallery, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH |
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1989 |
The
Print Studio, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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1988 |
Cinque
Gallery, New York |
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1987 |
Springfield
Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Ollantay Center for the Arts, Jackson Heights, NY |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2005 |
Five Contemporary
Voices in A New Space, curated by Bianca Dorsey of the June
Kelly Gallery, Delta Arts Center,
Winston-Salem; brochure |
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2004 |
A Universe of Art, organized by Corporate Art Directions, Credit
Suisee First
Boston, NY
Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton,
NJ
Hair: Untangling a social
history, Tang Museum, Skidmore College,
Saratoga
Springs, NJ |
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2003 |
The Art of
Containment, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ |
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2002 |
One Thousand Words,
curated by Leslie Umberger, John Michael Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI |
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2001 |
Cross-Pollination,
curated by Susan Joyce and Mery Lynn McCorkle,
Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and The Artoretum of Los
Angeles County, Arcadia, CA |
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2000 |
The Act of Drawing: Meaning/Method/Meaning, curated by Cynthia
Hawkins,
Rush Arts Gallery, NY
African-American Art @ 2000, The Rockland Center for the Arts,
West Nyack,
NY |
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1999 |
Slave
Routes: The Long Memory, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York |
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1998 |
Memory Walking,
curated by Roma Potiki, City Gallery, Wellington, New
Zealand; catalogue
Massachusetts College of Art Faculty FA2D Exhibition, Boston
Symphony Hall,
MA
1998 National Invitational Works on Paper Exhibition, University
of Hawai’i,
Hilo; catalogue
Bridges From Brooklyn/Puentes a Brooklyn, Wilmer Jennings
Gallery, New York
Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the
Schomburg Center
Collections, Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, New York |
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1997 |
Bridges From
Brooklyn/de las Puentes De Brooklyn: The Other New York Stories of
Hidden
Identity and Memory, The Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center,
Washington, DC |
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1996 |
Bearing Witness:
Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,
Inaugural exhibition, curated by
Dr. Jontyle Robinson, Spelman College
Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA;
traveling exhibition; catalogue
A Walk in the Woods, curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, East
Islip, NY
Pensando Visualmente: Dibujos Y Libros Hechos A Mano Por Artistas
Norteamericanos, organized by
Dennis Leder and curated by Karen Shaw,
Galería de Arte Plastica
Contemporanea, Guatemala, Central America |
Public and Corporate Collections |
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The Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Francis Greenberger Collection
Sandor Family Collection
Ariel Capital Management, Chicago, IL
The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, GA
AT&T |
Selected Catalogues and Brochures |
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2005 |
Caesar, Dianne, “Five
Contemporary Voices in a New Space,” Delta Arts
Center, Winston-Salem, NC,
January; exhibition brochure |
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2004 |
Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers
Squibb,
Princeton, NJ; exhibition brochure
Hair: Untangling a Social History, curated by Penny Howell Jolly,
The Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at
Skidmore, pp. 71,108; catalogue |
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2003 |
The Persistence of
Memory, brochure essay by Catherine Bernard, Amelie
A.Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury,
Long Island, NY
Symphonic Poem, The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Genshaft,
Carole
and others, Columbus Museum of Art,
Abrams Publishing, pp.48, 49
Gerald F. Brommer and Nancy K. Kinne, Exploring Painting, 2nd
Edition,
Davis Publications, Inc, Worchester,
Massachusetts |
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2002 |
Debra Priestly,
essay by Pheoris West, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH
Preserves, essay by Franklin Sirmans, June Kelly Gallery, New
York |
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2000 |
The Act of
Drawing: Medium/Method/Meaning, essay by Cynthia Hawkins,
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Craughwell, Thomas, CowParade New York 2000, Workman Publishing
Company |
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