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 |
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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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