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ABOUT LUC DEMERS
My art practice is a meditation on, and an investigation of photography through photography. I am interested in photographs as objects of history, science, and art. I am interested in how we use photography to remember, to inform, and to explore the visual world around us, to preserve the world that we see, and to reveal a world only visible through photographs. I strive to make photographs that not only expand my understanding of the visual world but also expand my understanding of how we see and how photography functions as a medium of seeing.
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Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. In the early nineties, he studied art at USM, completing the BFA program with a concentration in photography. In 1994, while continuing to pursue his personal work, he began working as a commercial photographer. In 2010, he earned his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, Demers is an exhibiting artist, freelance art documentation photographer, and Associate Professor of Art at The University of Maine at Augusta.
Exhibitions
One Person / Feature Exhibitions​
2018 Luc Demers: Darkness and Light, L/A Arts Gallery, Lewiston, ME
2017 Saturn, Pop Up Gallery, Augusta, ME
2016 Luc Demers, Pop Up Gallery, Augusta, ME
2016 Moon Drawing, Raw Space Water Street, Augusta, ME
2014 Luc Demers, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2014 Luc Demers: Artist Intervention, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2014 Pull, Blend Studio, Nashville, TN
2013 Moonlit, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2012 Trace, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, USM, Portland, ME
2011 Darkened Rooms, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
2011 Chalk, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME
2011 Luc Demers, University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME
2010 Darkened Rooms, Coleman Burke Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Thesis Exhibition, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2008 Bisbee @ MacDowell, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2007 Pinhole Ships, Daunis, Portland, ME
2007 Focus, University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME
2005 Pond in the River, Arabica, Portland, ME
2004 Reflection, Lifeworks, Falmouth, ME
2004 Pinhole Ships, Arabica, Portland, ME
2003 Selected Works, Kutz, Portland, ME
1997 Images of Hochstadt, Town Hall, Hochstadt, Germany
1996 Images of Hochstadt, Area Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
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Select Group Exhibitions
2025 New Abstraction, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
2024 Energy in Flux, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
2022 Seeds of Light, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2022 Constructed & Found, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, ME
2018 There’s No Beginning and There’s No End, BUOY, Kittery, ME
2016 Corey Daniels Presents, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2016 Wonder, University of New England Portland Art Gallery, Portland, ME
2015 CICA Contemporary Photography Winter 2015, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2013 Contact Boundary, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2012 CMCA Biennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2012 Light Motion Sound, Ogunqunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunqunquit, ME
2012 Around the House: 17 Maine Photographers, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2011 Enter Night, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
2011 Via Vermont, The International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2010 Relevance, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2010 Maine Photographers: Ten Years Later, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME
2010 Sense of Place, Cynthia Reeves, New York, NY
2010 Capture 50, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Falmouth, ME
2009 Zero Station Presents, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2009 Turning Pages, The Kate Cheney Chappell ‘83 Center for Book Arts,
Portland, ME
2009 In the Absence, Spheris, Hanover, NH
2008 Reading, Writing, and Defining: USM Book Arts and Stone House Faculty Exhibition,
Atrium Art Gallery, Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston, ME
2006 Faculty Exhibition, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
2006 Public Places/Private Spaces, USM Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, ME
2005 UMA Faculty Exhibition, Augusta, ME
2004 Alternative Techniques: Traditional Materials, Photographic Traditions of Maine,
Portland, ME
2003 Zero Portfolio, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2002 Images in Print, Saco Museum, Saco, ME
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Solo and Feature Exhibition Reviews
Edwige Charlot, “Seeing in the Dark: Luc Demers,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, December 5, 2013, p. 32
Britta Konau, “Luc Demers on the Edge of Light and Darkness,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, November 20, 2012.
Von Astrid Ludwig, “Hochstadter Winkel in Der University of Portland,” Frankfurter Rundschau,
Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 1997, p. 6.
Nicholas Wells, “Luc Demers: Darkened Rooms,” City Arts, New York, NY, November 23, 2010.
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Select Group Exhibition Reviews
Stephanie Cardon, “CMCA Biennial in Rockport, Maine,” Big Red & Shiny: Our Daily Red. Boston, MA, December 01, 2012.
Daniel Kany, “Art Review: Biennial Backs Up Good Looks With Visceral Subtext,” Portland Press
Herald, Portland, ME, October 21, 2012.
Philip Isaacson, “Two Maine shows stretch the boundaries of photography, books,” Portland Press Herald, Portland, ME, May 13, 2012.
Nicholas Schroeder, “Domestic Life Viewed by 17 Maine Photogs,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, January 11, 2012.
Nicholas Schroeder, “Sorting Through the CMCA’s Biennial,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME,
October 10, 2012.
Chris Thompson, “Making Scenes: Eighty years of local photojournalism at the Saco Museum,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, May 31, 2002.
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