Roberto De Luna

Roberto De Luna (born October 3, 1974) is an American photographer. He was born in New York City, where he continues to live and work. He has shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions, and is best known for his work with Polaroid and instant film images.

Before graduating from Parsons School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in photography in 1999, De Luna accepted representation from Peter Hay Halpert, and began his career in group shows in the United States & Europe.

De Luna participated in the group shows Raw: New York, New Work and Not A. Lear Raw: New York, New Work was in London and the show showcased several emerging contemporary artists. Not A. Lear was a group show with the painter Amanda Lear that exhibited at the Art Process Gallery in Paris as well as the Torch Gallery in Amsterdam.

Having exhibited in several group shows internationally, De Luna has recently been featured in the Dutch art periodical Eyemazing, and had held a solo exhibition entitled Facing West, From California's Shores at the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art gallery in the Chelsea, Manhattan section of New York City. The show was held from May through August, 2007 was reviewed in New Yorker Magazine as "appealingly, deceptively casual." The show was also reviewed in an issue of New York Blade as one of three queer artists, referring to it as "soothingly gauzy and dreamlike".

De Luna's work has been reviewed by many magazines and periodicals including "The Village Voice", "", "Genre", & "Soma".

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