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Louie Despres – curriculum vitae
Awards
2012 Fellowship, Worcester Arts Council

Collections
2019 Worcester Art Museum

Exhibitions (solo and group)
2022 Contemporary Crompton, The White Room, Worcester, MA
2022 Origin, JMAC, Worcester, MA
COVID-19
2020 Worcester County in Four Parts, State House, Boston, MA
2019 84th Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2019 ArtsWorcester Biennial, Arts Worcester Gallery, Worcester, MA
2019 Pop Up Pepper, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2019 It's pronounced day-pray, Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA
2018 Us, Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA
2018 Place (Holder), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2018 83rd Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2018 Noir, Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA
2017 Parallels, UnchARTed/Gallery Z, Lowell, MA
2017 82nd Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2017 ArtsWorcester Biennial, Arts Worcester Hanover Gallery, Worcester, MA
2016 “Look, It's Rock N' Roll”, WCUW Radio, Worcester, MA
2016 Worcester Windows, Bay State Bank, Worcester, MA
2016 81st Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2016 "My Recent Work", Worcester PopUp
2015 80th Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2015 “the believers”, Davis Art Gallery, Worcester, MA
2015 ArtsWorcester Biennial, Arts Worcester Hanover Gallery, Worcester, MA
2015 “I’ll Be Your Mirror”, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
2015 Architectural Images 2015, Preservation Worcester, Worcester, MA
2014 Winter Solstice Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2014 38.6: A Photographic Homage to Worcester, Worcester Historical Museum,Worcester, MA
2014 Pop Up Exhibition, Worcester, MA
2013 Winter Solstice Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2013 New England Collective IV, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 ArtsWorcester Biennial, Arts Worcester Hanover Gallery, Worcester, MA
2012 stART on the Street 10th Anniversary Invitational Gallery Show, Davis Gallery, Worcester, MA
2011 ARTSWorcester Fire & Ice, Arts Worcester Hanover Gallery, Worcester, MA
2011 ARTSWorcester Biennial, Arts Worcester Hanover Gallery, Worcester, MA
2011 Center Yourself, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
2010 Pecha Kucha #5, Clark University Razzo Hall, Worcester, MA
2010 Wormtown Rocks!, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2004 “Silver Goes Gold”, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
2003 “It’s About Time”, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
2003 “Drive By Shootings”, CC Lowell First Show Gallery, Worcester, MA
2002 “The Soul of Photography”, Krikorian Gallery , Worcester, MA
1999 ARTSWorcester Eighth Biennial, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
1998 “Art for AIDS Sake”, AIDS Project Worcester, Worcester, MA
1992 “Art for AIDS Sake”, AIDS Project Worcester, Worcester, MA
1992 “OPEN STUDIO”, Studio for the Arts, Ware, MA
1992 “PHOTO ‘92”, Grove Street Gallery , Worcester, MA
1990 “PHOTO ‘90”, Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA
1989 KINSA Photo, Fitchburg Sentinal Newspaper, Fitchburg, MA

Education
1992-2002 Worcester Center for Crafts - photography

Publications
Boston Globe
Boston Phoenix
Worcester Phoenix
Worcester Magazine
The Valley Advocate
City Living
The Pulse
Holy Cross Alumni Magazine
Clark University Alumni Magazine
Shots Magazine
Almanac - The newsletter of the American Antiquarian Society

Books
2014 “Love and Lust” (Open to Interpretation)
2013 “Heart of the Commonwealth” (New England Business Media)
2010 “Five Months” (self published)
2022 "The Photobooth Project, Vol. 1" (self published)

Career
1999-2003 staff photographer Wormtown.org
1998-2001 staff photographer Worcester Phoenix

Curating Experience
2013 “This Narrow Distance”, Worcester Center For Crafts