Darryl Lauster

Darryl Lauster is an intermedia artist, writer, MFA director, and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas Arlington. He is a native New Yorker. Lauster has exhibited nationally at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the National Metal Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the John Michael Kohler Foundation, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, as well as internationally in Berlin, Paris, London, and Rutten. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the McNeese State University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Lauster's work investigates the American past and present, and hinges on the tensions between truth and fiction as it informs our understanding of history.