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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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