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ALLAN deSOUZA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 University of Seville, Building Paradise, Seville, Spain
University of Delaware, Allan deSouza, Newark, Delaware, US
2018 Krannert Art Museum, Through the Black Country, Champaign, IL, US
The Mary and Carter Thacher Gallery, Through the Black Country, San Francisco, CA, US
2017 Talwar Gallery, Through the Black Country, New York, NY, US
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Through the Black Country, Berkeley, CA, US
2015 Talwar Gallery, Notes from Afar, New York, NY
2014 California Museum of Photography, Ark of Martyrs, Riverside, CA
2012 Talwar Gallery, Painting Redux, New Delhi, India
SF Camerawork, The World Series, San Francisco, CA
2011 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Close Quarters and Far Pavilions, San Francisco, CA
The Phillips Collection,The World Series, Washington D.C
Talwar Gallery, Trysts Tropicales, New York, NY
Fowler Museum at UCLA, His Master’s Tools, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, The Farthest Point, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2008 Talwar Gallery, Allan deSouza: A Decade of Photoworks 1998-2008, New Delhi
University of Arizona School of Art, Fly Zones, Tucson, AZ
Talwar Gallery, (i don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos, New York, NY
2006 Wilshire/Fairfax, Clockshop Billboard: Public Art Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Talwar Gallery, The Lost Pictures, New York, NY
Bamako, Contours: VIth Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Mali
University Art Gallery, Recent Works w/ Yong Soon Min, University of California Irvine, CA
2004 Museum of Art, The Lost Pictures, Pomona College, CA
2003 Talwar Gallery, people in white houses, New York, NY
2001 Talwar Gallery, Recent Works, New York, NY
Art In General, Terrain, New York, NY
Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Terrible Beauty, Los Angeles, CA
University of Notre Dame, Partition and Memory Conference: Terrible Beauty, IN, US
2000 The Brewery, Nonzero Sum Games, Collaboration with Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles, CA
1998 The Upstairs at the Market Gallery, All You Can Eat, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Highways, Threshold, Santa Monica, CA
Menschel Gallery, AlterNatives. w/- Y.S. Min, Syracuse, NY
1994 Camerawork, alter idem/performing personae. w/- Y. S. Min, London, England
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Pomona College Museum of Art, Stories: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Claremont, CA, US
2018 Asia Society Texas Center, New Cartographies, Houston, TX, US
Apexart, Light in Wartime, New York, NY, US
2017 Asia Society, Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions, New York, NY, US
2016 Van Every/Smith Museum Galleries, Contents Under Pressure, Davidson, NC, US
2015 Blaffer Art Museum, Time/Image, Houston, TX, US and travel to
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, US
The Phillips Collection, Intersections @5, works from the permanent collection, Washington, DC, US
2013 Apexart, Heterotopia, Marfa, TX, US
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, Earth Matters, Washington, DC, US
Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Art Museums, Chasing Horizons, Milwaukee, WI, US
2011 Paris Photo, works from the Walther Collection exhibition: Events of the Self, Paris, France
Performance Art Institute, keeping An Eye On Surveillance, San Francisco, CA
2010 The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Material Evidence, Manhattan, KS, US
Walther Collection, Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, Dreamlands, Paris, France
2008 3rd Guangzhou Triennale, China w/- Yong Soon Min
MYDADA, 7th Gwangju Biennale, as part of collective, South Korea
Belltable Arts Centre, OPEN/INVITED e v +- a 2008, Too Early for Vacation, Limerick, Ireland
Galeria Arsenal, B Emergency Biennale, ialystok, Poland
2007 Mattress Factory, Double Conciousness, Pittsburgh, PA, US
Chicago Cultural Center, Lasting Foundations, IL, US and travel to
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, US
Museum of the African Diaspora, Lens on Life: From Bamako to SF, San Francisco, CA
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2006 International Center for Photography, SNAP Judgments, New York, NY and travel
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, US
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Two Rooms Gallery, The Arrival, Auckland, New Zealand
Biennale of the Canaries, Canary Islands
REDCat Gallery, An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Los Angeles, CA
European Centre for Contemporary Art, Another World, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Talwar Gallery, desi(re), New York, NY
Courtyard Gallery, Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa, New York, NY
Centro Cultural Tijuana, CorteFusión: Fotografía manipulada de Tijuana y LÁ, Mexico
2004 Museum Kunst Palast, Africa Remix, Dusseldorf, Germany and travel to
Hayward Gallery, London, England
Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Long Steps Never Broke a Back, PA, US
William Benton Museum of Art, Masala, Storrs Mansfield, CT, US
18th Street Gallery, Prism, Santa Monica, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, African Art, African Voices, PA, US
Art in General, Priority, New York, NY
2003 Museum of African Art, Looking Both Ways, New York, NY and travel to
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, US
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, US
Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, Un/Familiar Territory, CA
Contemporary Art Museum, Unnaturally, University Of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US and travel
2002 Fisher Gallery, Global Address, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Concept by Jochen Gerz Braunschweig Scool of Art, The Anthology of Art, Germany
India Habitat Centre, Borderless Terrain, New Dehli, India
Cherrydelosreyes, Dermatone, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Irvine Fine Arts Center, Phigment, PA
India Center of Art and Culture, Home and The World, New York, NY
2000 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Cosmic Dermis, Los Angeles, CA
The Freud Centre, Imaging the Wunderboard, London Biennale, London, England
Castle Gallery, NY:ID/Y2K, The College of New Rochelle, NY
Baum Gallery, AR: Contemporary Art and Identity, Conway, AR, US
1999 Camerawork, Body/Language, San Francisco, CA
The School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, Not On Any Map, Betty Rymer Gallery, IL, US
Barnsdall Art Gallery, The Mourning After, Los Angeles, CA
Black Paint Studio, Dia*sperse, Toronto, Canada
1998 Galeria da Mitra, Where I am, Lisbon, Portugal
New Museum, Urban Encounters, New York, NY
1997 The Photographers Gallery, Translocations, London, England and travel to
City University, New York, NY
Studio Museum, Transforming the Crown, Harlem, New York, NY, US
The Queens Museum, Out of India, Queens, NY, US
1996 American Photography Institute, National Graduate Photography, New York, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM Benefit, Bronx, NY
University of California Irvine Gallery, Terminals, curated by Connie Samaras, CA
1994 Houston Center for Photography, Picturing Asia America, TX, US
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Beyond the Borders, Bronx, NY
1993 Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM Show, Bronx, NY
Whitney Museum, Whitney Biennial, Video collaboration with Yong Soon Min, New York, NY
1992 Walsall Art Gallery, Realms of Glory, Walsall, England
Exit Art, Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, collaboration with Yong Soon Min, New York, NY
1991 Art In General, Artists Engulfed Against War, New York, NY
Grey Art Gallery, Interrogating Identity, New York, NY and travel
1990 Castle Museum, Let the Canvas Come to Life With Dark Faces, Nottingham, England
Ikon Gallery, Ecstatic Antibodies, Birmingham, United Kingdom and travel to
Chapter Arts, Cardiff, United Kingdom
1989 Leeds City Gallery, Fabled Territories, England and travel to
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
National Museum of Havana, Third Havana Biennale, Cuba
1988 Chisenhale Gallery, The Essential Black Art, London, England and travel
Gardner Arts, Brighton, England
1987 Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel Open, London England
PERFORMANCES
2009 University of North Carolina Bodies in Transition, Lecture, Chapel Hill, NC, US
National Museum of African Art Migratory Paths, Lecture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
2008 New Geographies in Contemporary Art, presentation, Flyboy, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2007 Pacific Film Archive, Two Gurus in Drag, video screening, Berkeley, CA
2006 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ReDo, (Allison Knowles), with Faith Wilding, US
2005 Danço-te, music DVD, a project by Bia Gayotto
2004 SsamzieSpace, X, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Oboro Gallery, Will **** for Peace, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, Montreal, Canada
2002 Mezzanine Gallery, Will **** for Peace, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, University of Minneapolis, US
1998 Tress/Pass, outdoors, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, between Paris and Madrid
EDUCATION
1995-97 MFA, Photography, UCLA
1993-94 Critical Studies, Whitney Independent Studies Program, NY
1980-83 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, England
Allan was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. He is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley.
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