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After a career spanning decades with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions around the world, Boston-native Duke Riley will have his first solo exhibition in his hometown. Lovers, Muggers, and Thieves opens on February 4, 2021 at Praise Shadows Art Gallery and will present drawings, mosaics, and video by Riley, who is now based in Brooklyn, NY. The show will also feature the premiere of original scrimshaws made from found discarded plastic, and after their debut at Praise Shadows, they will be on view as part of a major U.S. museum exhibition in 2022.

The only previous time Riley’s …