About George Dureau

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    Born December 28, 1930, New Orleans, LA

    EDUCATION
    1946-52 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    1952 School of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

    SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    2000 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (paintings)
    1999 George Dureau Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    1998 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (drawings on canvas)
    Callu-Merite Gallery, Paris, France
    Houston Museum School, Houston, TX (photographs)
    1997 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    Callu-Merite Gallery, Paris, France
    La Maison Europèenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (film documentary
    of Dureau photography)
    1995 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    1993 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    1992 Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY
    1991 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    Jamison-Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
    1989 Photographs, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    Galerie Simonne Stern, Atlanta, GA
    1988 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    1987 Jamison-Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
    1986 Martin Gallery, (photographs, drawings, paintings, 1976-1986), Washington, D.C.
    George Dureau La Nouvelle-Orleans, Sponsored by Ministere de la Culture Reims,
    Metz, Paris
    1985 291 Gallery, Atlanta, GA (paintings, drawings, photographs)
    1984 Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, LA (paintings)
    1984, 82 Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA (photographs, drawings, paintings)
    1983 A Century of Vision, Louisiana 1882-1982, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
    Modern Masters, Leister Fine Art, London, England (paintings, drawings)
    Photographers' Gallery, London England (photographs)
    1982 George Dureau's Little People, Galerie Jules Laforgue, New Orleans, LA
    1981 Gallery Deville, New Orleans, LA (drawings)
    Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY (photographs)
    1979 Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C. (photographs)
    1977 George Dureau: Selected Works 1960-1977, Contemporary Art Center,
    New Orleans, LA
    1965,64,63,62,61 Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, LA
    1965 Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    1998 The Nude, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
    1996 Louisiana Story, Delfina Studio Trust, London, England
    1995 The Body Photographic, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    1990 Katz and Dawgs, Columbus, OH
    1989 Burden Gallery: New Southern Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
    1988-89 Looking South: A Different Dixie, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
    1986-87 Neighbors, The Museum, Lubbock, TX
    1986 Anniston Museum Invitational, Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, AL
    Landscapes, Seascapes, Cityscapes, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    1986 New Orleans Triennial The Centennial Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art,
    New Orleans, LA (photographs)
    Split Vision, Artist Space, New York, NY (photographs)
    1985 Five Louisiana Photographers, Martin Gallery, Washington, D.C.
    The Fertile Crescent, Traveling show from Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    1983 The Radical Image, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    Photographer's Gallery, London, England
    Fiftieth Birthday Choice, Leinster Fine Art, London, England
    1982 The Human Figure, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    Brother Michael Show, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
    1981 Naked Color, The Photo Exchange 11, New Orleans, LA
    New Louisiana Landscapes, The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
    New American Nude, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    1980 Photography in Louisiana: 1900-1980, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
    Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY (photographs)
    Louisiana Major Works, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
    1980, 79 Louisiana Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    1973 1973 Artists Biennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

    SELECTED BOOKS/MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS
    2000 Naked Men Too, David Leddick, Universe Publishing, NY
    1998 Adam, Edward Lucie-Smith, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
    1994 Race, Sex and Gender, Edward Lucie-Smith, Harry Abrams, NY
    Mapplethorpe "Assault with a Deadly Camera", Jack Frittscher, PH.D., Hastings
    House, NY
    1992 The Homoerotic Photograph, Allen Ellenzweig, Columbia University Press, NY
    1991 Sexuality in Western Art, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson, London
    The Male Nude in Contemporary Photography, Melody Davis, Temple University Press
    1990 Fully Exposed, The Male Nude in Photography, Emmanuel Cooper, Unwin
    Hyman Ltd., London
    Art in the Eighties, by Edward Lucie-Smith, Phaidon Press, Ltd.
    1989 Look Away, by Estill Curtis Pennington, Saraland Press, Peachtree Publishers
    Aperture Magazine, Issue 115
    1988 The Hidden Image, Peter Weiermair, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
    Splendeurs et Miseres due Corps, Glanz und Elend des Korpers, Museum of
    Modern Art, Paris, France
    "Behold the Man: The Male in Photography", Alasdair Foster, ART DATA, 37
    Montgomery Road, London
    1988 George Dureau: The Modern Heroic Figure, NEW by Terrington Calas, NEW
    ORLEANS ART REVIEW, New Orleans, LA
    1987 The Male Nude in the Photograph of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Peter Weiermair,
    Milan, Italy
    1986 MANNER SEHEN MANNER, Peter Weiermair, Verlag "Photographie," Berlin,
    Germany
    George Dureau/New Orleans--50 Photographs Introduced by Edward Lucie-Smith
    "A Century of Vision 1884-1984," Herman Mhire, University of Southwestern
    Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
    1985 "The Male Nude," Edward Lucie-Smith, Rizzoli, NY
    1984 "TWENTIETH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HAWAIIAN COLLECTIONS," by
    Vanderen Coch
    1983 "Dureau: Classical/Anti-Classical?" by Edward Lucie-Smith, NEW ORLEANS ART
    REVIEW, New Orleans, LA
    PORTFOLIO, FOTOGRAFIE VERLAG, West Germany
    "George Dureau: New Orleans 1972-1982; 50 Photographs from the Doan
    Collection," Fort Dodge, IA
    "George Dureau: Photographs 1973-1983; 100 Photographs by Southern Gallery
    Press, New Orleans, LA
    "A Comprehensive View of the Male Nude," by Peter Weiermair, Frankfort,
    Germany
    1977 "George Dureau: Selected Works 1960-1977" Contemporary Arts Center, New
    Orleans, LA

    MAJOR COMMISSIONS
    1998 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fair Commemorative Poster, New Orleans, LA
    1998 Pediment sculptures, Jazz Casino, New Orleans, LA
    1997 Harrah's Casino Pediment Sculpture New Orleans, Arts Council of New Orleans, under the Percent for Art Program
    1990-92 Museum Gates Sculpture commission, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
    1990 The Parade Paused, commissioned for Gallier Hall by the Arts Council of New Orleans under the Percent for Art Program

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