Bio

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DAMEON LESTER was born in Concord, North Carolina in 1973 and raised in Salem, Virginia. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, in sculpture, where he studied abroad at Loughborough College of Art and Design in the UK and Technikon Natal in South Africa.

He received his MFA from the University of Nevada in 2000, and in 2003, began attending California State University, Los Angeles, working towards his MA in Special Education, while attaining his teaching credential. Dameon continued to pursue art, while teaching emotionally disturbed and physically disabled teenagers in Los Angeles, and later working with diverse and highly gifted students at Otis College of Art and Design.

He has most recently shown work in the 2010 OsCene juried exhibition at Laguna Art Museum and attended a month-long artist residency at Vermont Studio Center. Dameon currently lives and works in Austin, TX.

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