Education:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, M.F.A 2010
Hampshire College, B.A. 2006
Residencies/Fellowships:
Artist Residency at the Skowhegan School of Art , 2011
Commission from The Mead Art Museum, 2014-16
Gallery Representation:
Represented by the Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA
Permanent Collections:
The National Academy of Science
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Getty Museum
Harvard University
Smith College
Books Published:
Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine
Limited-edition artist’s book (and exhibition)
Published by Stinehour Wemys Editions, 2006
The Alchemist’s Tree
Self-Published Limited-edition artist’s book, 2010
Other Publications:
Conveyor Magazine No. 7 “Time Travel” 2015
Solo Exhibitions:
October-December 2015 Primordia , The UW Kohler Art Library, Madison WI
July-September 2013 Site Unseen , The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD
October-December 2011 Art in a Liminal Space, The Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA
September-October 2011 The Alchemist’s Tree, The Smoyer Gallery at Roanoke College, Salem VA
July 2010 The Alchemist’s Tree, Gallerie in der Kernstrasse, Nüremberg Germany
February 2010 Ancestral Garden, Allan, Leah Rabinowitz Gallery at Yale University, New Haven CT
January 2008 The Library, Exposure Gallery, New Haven CT
July-August 2007 The Library, ARS LIBRI, Boston MA
July-September 2006 Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine, ARS LIBRI, Boston MA
Collaborative Exhibitions:
March 2017 Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Chazen Museum of Art, (with Artist M. Glowacki) Madison WI
May-June 2011 bAk&4th, PMW Gallery, (with Sculptor Wilson Lawrence) Stamford CT
January-March 2011 Picturing Wall-drawings, ARS LIBRI, (with Sculptor Wilson Lawrence ) Boston MA
Group Exhibitions:
March 2017, AIPAD, New York NY
September 2016, “Triennial Exhibition’ Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI
May 2016, “Still Life in the Spinning World” Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
February 2016, “Unimaginable By One Mind Alone’ Mead Art Museum, Amherst MA
November 2015 Paris Photo, Paris France
September 2015, “Conveyor Magazine Group Show Launch” MoMA PS1, New York NY
June 2015, “Between the Imagined & the Observed” Mandelbaum & Albert Vision Gallery, Madison, WI
March 2014, AIPAD, New York NY
March 2013 , All That and a Bag of Chips, DEAD SPACE, Brooklyn NY
October 2013 , The 15TH Annual DEBRA of America Benefit, MOMA, New York NY
June 2013, “Coast of Mars Archive” EXPO1 MOMA PS1, Queens NY
May-June 2012, Flashed: New England Photographers Group Show, PRC BU, Boston MA
March 2012, AIPAD, New York NY
November 2011, Art Miami, Miami FL
March 2011, AIPAD, New York NY
January-February 2011 Gods and Monsters, Daniel Cooney Fine Art (juried exhibition), New York NY
November 2010 Paris Photo 2010, Paris France
June 2010 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
April-May 2010 ADD inc. (juried), Boston MA.
April-May 2010 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, MASS ART, Boston MA
April 2010 Massart Art Auction (juried), Massachusetts College of art & Design, Boston MA
February-April 2010 PRC student exhibition, Photographic Resource Center BU, Boston MA
April 2009 Massart Art Auction (juried), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston MA
September 2008 Faculty Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT
March 2008 Invitational, City Gallery, New Haven CT
October 2007 City Wide Open Studios (juried), ARTSPACE, New Haven CT
September 2007 Faculty Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT
August 2007 Off the Wall, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Studio 70. New Haven CT
October 2006 City Wide Open Studios (juried), ARTSPACE, New Haven CT
September 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt Germany
April 2006 Sparkling Fresh (juried), New York NY
Teaching:
University of Wisconsin Madison (Fall 2014-Present)
Faculty Associate
Large Format Photography
Intro Digital Photography
Black & White Photography
SUNY New Paltz (Spring 2014)
Adjunct Professor
Digital Photography
International Center of Photography (Spring 2013-Fall 2014)
Adjunct Professor
The Photograph as Fiction (aka “Photographing the Impossible)
Digital Photography 1
Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2011-Fall 2012)
Adjunct Professor
Large Format Photography
The Extended Portrait (photo+video)
Macro Photography (+video)
Black and White Film Photography
Digital Photography 1
Montgomery College Visual Arts Department (Fall 2011)
Adjunct professor
Photographic Expression 1
Photographic Expression 2
The Art League School (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)
Instructor
Intro Darkroom Photo
Intro Digital Photo
Intermediate Digital Photo
Fall 2010 Instructor, Intermediate Photography
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Fall 2008 - Spring 2011)
Student Adjunct Professor
Alternative Camera and Photographic Processes
Introduction to Digital Photography
Teaching Assistant
Photo: Senior Projects, (For Abelardo Morell, Laura McPhee & David Hilliard.)
Alternative Camera and Photographic Processes, (For Lana Caplan.)
Creative Arts Workshop (Winter 2007 - Spring 2008)
Instructor
The Photographic Narrative and
The Photographic Portrait
Sun Prints from Digital Negatives
Digital Black and White Photography
Macro Photography
Invited Lectures/Panels:
March 2017 UW Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History (Speaker)
October 2016 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Artist Talk)
April 2016 UW Madison (“René Descartes: The Book that Made Philosophy Modern”) (Speaker)
February 2015 CAA New York (“When Nobody’s Looking”) [Chaired Panel]
September 2014 UW Madison (Artist Talk)
August 2013 The Walters Art Museum (Artist Talk)
December 2012 SUNY New Paltz (Artist Talk)
November 2012 Montgomery College (Artist Talk)
March 2012 Louisiana State University School of Art + Design (Artist Talk)
March 2012 School of Art&Design at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University (Artist Talk)
September 2011 Roanoke College (Artist Talk)
Scientific Research:
University of Wisconsin Madison (Fall 2015-Present)
Researcher/ Co-author
Enhancing human color vision with thin-film optical filters by breaking binocular redundancy
With the Bradley S. Gundlach, Alireza Shahsafi, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Bas Rokers and
Mikhail A. Kats
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
& Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact Angle Measurement of Molten Beryllium Salt (FLIB) (For use in Molten Salt Fission Reactors)
With Raluca Scarlat, Ruchi Gakhar
Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, M.F.A 2010
Hampshire College, B.A. 2006
Residencies/Fellowships:
Artist Residency at the Skowhegan School of Art , 2011
Commission from The Mead Art Museum, 2014-16
Gallery Representation:
Represented by the Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA
Permanent Collections:
The National Academy of Science
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Getty Museum
Harvard University
Smith College
Books Published:
Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine
Limited-edition artist’s book (and exhibition)
Published by Stinehour Wemys Editions, 2006
The Alchemist’s Tree
Self-Published Limited-edition artist’s book, 2010
Other Publications:
Conveyor Magazine No. 7 “Time Travel” 2015
Solo Exhibitions:
October-December 2015 Primordia , The UW Kohler Art Library, Madison WI
July-September 2013 Site Unseen , The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD
October-December 2011 Art in a Liminal Space, The Robert Klein Gallery, Boston MA
September-October 2011 The Alchemist’s Tree, The Smoyer Gallery at Roanoke College, Salem VA
July 2010 The Alchemist’s Tree, Gallerie in der Kernstrasse, Nüremberg Germany
February 2010 Ancestral Garden, Allan, Leah Rabinowitz Gallery at Yale University, New Haven CT
January 2008 The Library, Exposure Gallery, New Haven CT
July-August 2007 The Library, ARS LIBRI, Boston MA
July-September 2006 Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine, ARS LIBRI, Boston MA
Collaborative Exhibitions:
March 2017 Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Chazen Museum of Art, (with Artist M. Glowacki) Madison WI
May-June 2011 bAk&4th, PMW Gallery, (with Sculptor Wilson Lawrence) Stamford CT
January-March 2011 Picturing Wall-drawings, ARS LIBRI, (with Sculptor Wilson Lawrence ) Boston MA
Group Exhibitions:
March 2017, AIPAD, New York NY
September 2016, “Triennial Exhibition’ Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI
May 2016, “Still Life in the Spinning World” Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon NY
February 2016, “Unimaginable By One Mind Alone’ Mead Art Museum, Amherst MA
November 2015 Paris Photo, Paris France
September 2015, “Conveyor Magazine Group Show Launch” MoMA PS1, New York NY
June 2015, “Between the Imagined & the Observed” Mandelbaum & Albert Vision Gallery, Madison, WI
March 2014, AIPAD, New York NY
March 2013 , All That and a Bag of Chips, DEAD SPACE, Brooklyn NY
October 2013 , The 15TH Annual DEBRA of America Benefit, MOMA, New York NY
June 2013, “Coast of Mars Archive” EXPO1 MOMA PS1, Queens NY
May-June 2012, Flashed: New England Photographers Group Show, PRC BU, Boston MA
March 2012, AIPAD, New York NY
November 2011, Art Miami, Miami FL
March 2011, AIPAD, New York NY
January-February 2011 Gods and Monsters, Daniel Cooney Fine Art (juried exhibition), New York NY
November 2010 Paris Photo 2010, Paris France
June 2010 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
April-May 2010 ADD inc. (juried), Boston MA.
April-May 2010 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, MASS ART, Boston MA
April 2010 Massart Art Auction (juried), Massachusetts College of art & Design, Boston MA
February-April 2010 PRC student exhibition, Photographic Resource Center BU, Boston MA
April 2009 Massart Art Auction (juried), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston MA
September 2008 Faculty Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT
March 2008 Invitational, City Gallery, New Haven CT
October 2007 City Wide Open Studios (juried), ARTSPACE, New Haven CT
September 2007 Faculty Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT
August 2007 Off the Wall, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Studio 70. New Haven CT
October 2006 City Wide Open Studios (juried), ARTSPACE, New Haven CT
September 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt Germany
April 2006 Sparkling Fresh (juried), New York NY
Teaching:
University of Wisconsin Madison (Fall 2014-Present)
Faculty Associate
Large Format Photography
Intro Digital Photography
Black & White Photography
SUNY New Paltz (Spring 2014)
Adjunct Professor
Digital Photography
International Center of Photography (Spring 2013-Fall 2014)
Adjunct Professor
The Photograph as Fiction (aka “Photographing the Impossible)
Digital Photography 1
Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2011-Fall 2012)
Adjunct Professor
Large Format Photography
The Extended Portrait (photo+video)
Macro Photography (+video)
Black and White Film Photography
Digital Photography 1
Montgomery College Visual Arts Department (Fall 2011)
Adjunct professor
Photographic Expression 1
Photographic Expression 2
The Art League School (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)
Instructor
Intro Darkroom Photo
Intro Digital Photo
Intermediate Digital Photo
Fall 2010 Instructor, Intermediate Photography
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Fall 2008 - Spring 2011)
Student Adjunct Professor
Alternative Camera and Photographic Processes
Introduction to Digital Photography
Teaching Assistant
Photo: Senior Projects, (For Abelardo Morell, Laura McPhee & David Hilliard.)
Alternative Camera and Photographic Processes, (For Lana Caplan.)
Creative Arts Workshop (Winter 2007 - Spring 2008)
Instructor
The Photographic Narrative and
The Photographic Portrait
Sun Prints from Digital Negatives
Digital Black and White Photography
Macro Photography
Invited Lectures/Panels:
March 2017 UW Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History (Speaker)
October 2016 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Artist Talk)
April 2016 UW Madison (“René Descartes: The Book that Made Philosophy Modern”) (Speaker)
February 2015 CAA New York (“When Nobody’s Looking”) [Chaired Panel]
September 2014 UW Madison (Artist Talk)
August 2013 The Walters Art Museum (Artist Talk)
December 2012 SUNY New Paltz (Artist Talk)
November 2012 Montgomery College (Artist Talk)
March 2012 Louisiana State University School of Art + Design (Artist Talk)
March 2012 School of Art&Design at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University (Artist Talk)
September 2011 Roanoke College (Artist Talk)
Scientific Research:
University of Wisconsin Madison (Fall 2015-Present)
Researcher/ Co-author
Enhancing human color vision with thin-film optical filters by breaking binocular redundancy
With the Bradley S. Gundlach, Alireza Shahsafi, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Bas Rokers and
Mikhail A. Kats
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
& Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact Angle Measurement of Molten Beryllium Salt (FLIB) (For use in Molten Salt Fission Reactors)
With Raluca Scarlat, Ruchi Gakhar
Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison