DEBORAH LAWRENCE SCHAFER
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Born in 1970 in San Antonio, Texas, Deborah Lawrence Schafer has an A.B. in Visual Arts from Princeton University. She worked for over a decade in art museums in curatorial and tech-related capacities, had a second career helping bring new medical devices to market, and eventually began creating art once again.  
 
A multimedia artist, Schafer questions the prevailing industrial Western worldview in which human beings are placed separate and are disconnected from the natural world, which allows for exploitation and devastation. Using diverse materials for her investigations, from writings found from a range of sources, rituals, and scientific data, Schafer gives new interpretations of the world mainly in the form of painting, digital collage, photography, and video. Her most recent work explores the complex construction of identity and gives rise to stories that have been silenced.

​She is a Mexican and U.S. citizen and currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Maine coast. Her work has been exhibited nationally including in Texas, Maine, Nevada, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and is featured in numerous private collections. In 2020, she was a R.A.R.O resident in Madrid, Spain.

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EDUCATION

Princeton University, A.B. June 1992. Department of Art and Archeology, Visual Arts Program.
​Awarded the F. LeMoyne Page Thesis Prize in Visual Art for water and fire sculptures.  


EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS

​CICA Museum, In Touch 2022 exhibition, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
November 16 — December 4, 2022

La Quinta del Sordo, R.A.R.Os Tesoros Felices, Madrid, Spain
​Curated by María Lightowler
June 30 — July 8, 2022
Artemis Gallery, Group exhibition, Northeast Harbor Maine
May 26 — June 22, 2022

The Holy Art Gallery, Oppositions II, London, UK
Online at theholyart.com. May 22 — 28, 2022

440 Gallery, 17th Annual Small Works Show,
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Brooklyn, New York
​Curated by George Del Barrio
December 1, 2021 — January 7, 2022

Casa de América, Arte en la Red, octava edición, Madrid, Spain
Online at www.casamerica.es/es/exposiciones/deborah-lawrence-schafer-eeuumexico
​Published: November 6, 2021

Pacific Art League, 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Palo Alto, California
Juried by George Rivera
November 5, 2021 — January 24, 2022

Illustrative Voices, Oneness: A Social Justice Exhibition, 
www.illustrativevoices.org
January 13 — February 10, 2021

Quarry Hill Antiques curated by UpstartModern, Brave New World, Mill Valley, California
January 9 — February 12, 2021

Artemis Gallery, Group exhibition, Northeast Harbor Maine, July 23 — August 5, 2020
 
Quinta del Sordo, Residencias R.A.R.O. Madrid, Spain,
March 25, 2020– canceled due to COVID-19 lockdown

Residencias R.A.R.O. Madrid, Spain
​February and March 2020

Art Market San Francisco, Studio Shop Gallery, Booth 207, Fort Mason, San Francisco, April 25 — 28, 2019
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Tahoe Gallery, Prim Library, 
Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada
Colors of Lake Tahoe by Deborah Lawrence Schafer in collaboration with the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Incline Village, Nevada, February 14 — March 22, 2019

Prim Library, Sierra Nevada College, Artist talk, Incline Village, Nevada, March 14, 2019

PALETTE, NEW GROWTH, San Francisco, California
October 27, 2018 — December 2, 2018 
​and March 4 — April1, 2019

Artemis Gallery, Group exhibition, Northeast Harbor, Maine,
July 19 — August 1, 2018

A.Space, Group exhibition, Menlo Park, California
​February 1 — March 10, 2018

Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California
August 4 — 24th, 2017
Guest Artist
 
Shaw Jewelry, Group exhibition, Northeast Harbor, Maine 
August 2017 
 
Private sale event, Menlo Park, California, May 18, 2017
 
Stanford Red Barn auction. May 2017

505 Montgomery Street, Deborah Lawrence Schafer, San Francisco, California
Art Program lobby exhibition curated by Artsource Consulting​
Spring 2017

Pacific Art League, Science, Technology and the Future of Art, Palo Alto, California 
​First Place, juried by David Evan Harris of the Institute for the Future (IFTF)
June 3 — 23, 2016

Pacific Art League, Artists Talks, presentation about Colors of Lake Tahoe series, Palo Alto, California
June 3, 2016

Pacific Art League, Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape, Palo Alto, California
October 2 — 29, 2015

Pacific Art League, Members' Exhibition, Palo Alto, California
July 3 — 30, 2015

California College of Arts, Dis-Ease: Medical Imagery and Contemporary Looking, MFA class, Visual Criticism Department, presentation about artwork and infectious diseases, San Francisco, California, March 9, 2006

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Solo Mujeres–Corazonada: Quinceañera/Fifteen Years of Women’s Work, San Francisco, California
February 14 — March 21, 2003

Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, Paintings by Deborah Lawrence, Princeton, New Jersey
April 1991

Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, Water and fire sculptures by Deborah Lawrence, Princeton, New Jersey
May 1992

Program in the Study of Women and Gender Department Office, Princeton University, Solo photography exhibition: Is Any Place Truly Natural?, Princeton, New Jersey
Spring 1991

Visual Arts Gallery, The Hockaday School, Watercolor paintings by Deborah Lawrence and Brandy Bowen, Dallas, Texas
Spring 1987


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