b. 1954, San Bernardino, CA Education 1981    Master of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1978    Bachelor of Art in Studio Art with a Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside, CA Awards 2004    Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists 1999    Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, Visual Arts 1996-97    National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship/Other Genres 1992    California Arts Council Fellowship for Installation/New Genre Public Projects 2007    Woven, San Francisco Arts Commission, Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, CA 2004    Shelter, San Jose Cultural Affairs, San Jose Animal Care Center, San Jose, CA 2003    Labyrinth Gateway, University of Texas, San Antonio, Downtown Campus, San Antonio TX 2000    On the Air, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA Solo Exhibitions 2007    Selected Works, Brian Gross at One Post, San Francisco, CA 2006    Selected Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2004    Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio 2002    Paranirvana, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 2002    Recollection (Toward Oblivion), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 2002    La Cena Pasada, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 2001    Paranirvana, Worcester Art Museum, MA 2001    The End of Desire, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 2000    Ship, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 2000    Paranirvana, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, MO 2000    Five Figures, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999    Recumbent, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 1998    Recital, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 1998    Ship, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1998    Kalpa, I-Space, Chicago, IL 1997    Kalpa and Passenger, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 1997    Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997    Dervish, Metroṇm, Barcelona, Spain 1996    Tahquitz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1996    The Sound of the Trumpet, ARTPACE, San Antonio, TX 1995    Site Works 1983-86, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995    Observatory, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1995    Four Interventions, Des Moines Art Center, IA 1995    Interrogation (for Counterspace Project), Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994    Crossing/Cruzandose, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 1994    Falling, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993    Tahualtapa Project and Video Room, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1993    Crossing/Cruzandose, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA 1993    Killing Time, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 1993    Observatory, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA 1992    Alas Time, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992    Kísh Tétayawet/Dream House/Wampkísh, Installation with James Luna, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA 1992    OFFICE, Wise Taylor Partnerships @ Rose Court, London, UK 1991    The Language of Paradise, Artists Space, New York, NY 1991    The Songs of Menil, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991    Pé Túkmiyat, Pé Túkmiyat (Darkness, Darkness), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1991    The Language of Paradise, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, CA 1990    Háypatak, Witness, Kansatsusha, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, CA 1990    Garage, with Dale Kistemaker, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990    Air, Aviary, The Language of Paradise, Edison Song (Tesla Sings for a Deaf Edison), Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 2007    Home Sweet Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2006-2007  The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. Traveled to: Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; The School of Visual Arts, New York; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California. 2003    Lewis deSoto, Linda Connor, Bill Ivey, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2003    Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC 2003    The Invisible Thread, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, NY 2002    Permeable Boundaries, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, NY 2002    Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, NY 2001    Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2001    Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2001    Eureka Too! Fellowship Awards 1999-2000, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2000    Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2000    Arboresence, Paradise Ridge Sculpture Park, Santa Rosa, CA 2000    Noisemakers, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississsauga, Ontario, Canada 1999    Bay Area Now 2, Yerba-Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1999    MIR. Art in Space, Comune di Bolzano, Stadgemeinde Bozen, Bolzano, Italy 1998    Back Room Noise, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA 1998    Dromology: Ecstacies of Speed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 1998    Paullina Cupana, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 1998    Landscape and Memory, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998    Plugged In, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998    Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 1998    When Borders Migrate, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997    The Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 1996    Brazil-USA Exchange, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1996    Fragments, Museu D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Koldo Metxelena, San Sebastián, Spain 1996    NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark 1996    Matters of the Heart, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996    Almaraz to Zuniga: Hispanic Artists from the BankAmerica Collection, A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA 1995    Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA; Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo ex Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico City 1995    Threshold/Limiares, Fundação De Serralves, Porto, Portugal 1995    Facing Eden, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA 1994    Los Angeles Mind Quakes, DeBeyerd Center For Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands 1994    Issues of Image, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994    Marking Time, Sigma Gallery, New York, NY 1994    Landscape As Metaphor, Visions of America in the Late Twentieth Century, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 1994    Home Video: Redefined, Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 1994    Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyberart, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA 1993    Indian Territories, Renée Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1993    Contemporary Identities, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1993    Bas Jan Ader, Lewis deSoto, David Deutch, Maureen Gallace, Rodney Graham, Mary Lucier, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 1993    Multiple World: An International Survey of Artist Books, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1993    Producing Columbus, Claremont Colleges Art Galleries, Claremont, CA 1992    The Spatial Drive, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1992    Turning The Map, Camerawork Limited, London, U.K. 1991    Three Archaeologies, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside 1990    Biennial I, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside 1990    Waterworks, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1990    Earth Day 1990: Artists Respond To The Environment, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA 1989    Night Light, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1988    Natural Selection: The Terrain of Southern California, Riverside Art Museum, CA 1988    Sum of the Parts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Selected Bibliography 2003    Artner, Alan G. "deSoto's Buddha Dazzling and Disarming," The Chicago Tribune, April 11 2002    Hanor, Stephanie. "Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana Self-Portrait," Lewis de Soto: Paranirvana (self-portrait), exhibition catalogue, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University 2002    Posner, Helaine. "Lewis deSoto: Spirit and Matter," Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana (self-portrait), exhibition catalogue, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University 2002    Rapku, John. "Lewis deSoto at the Headlands Center for the Arts," Art Week, January/February 2001    Sherman, Mary. "DeSoto reaches 'Paranirvana'," Boston Herald 2001    Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "Report from St. Louis: Art Under the Arch," Art in America, July (illustrated). 2001    Bonetti, David. "Eureka Exhibition Much Improved," San Francisco Chronicle, February 1 2001    Fischer, Jack. "Artists to Keep an Eye On," San Jose Mercury News, January 14. 2001    Maxwell, Diane ed. Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, exhibition catalogue, San Jose Museum of Art 2000    Castro, Jan Garden. "Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana," Sculpture, December, pp. 70-71, illustrated 2000    Humphrey, David. Art Issues, November/December 2000    Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art in Review, September 29 1999    Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art in Review, October 29 1999    Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, Voices Choices, November 16 1998    Riddell, Jennifer. Lewis deSoto: Recital, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 9-December 27 (with an introduction by the artist) 1998    Cameron, Dan. "Lewis deSoto," Smart Art Press, Volume 4, Number 39 1997    Zimmer, William. "A Gallery Sampler at the Aldrich," The New York Times, December 14 1996    Picazo, Glòria, "Photography: New Territories for Reality," catalog essay in Fragments, Museu D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona 1996    Cross, Dorothy and deSoto, Lewis. "Heat and Cold," Tate, Issue 10, Winter 1996    Freeman, David. "New Works: 96.2 at ArtPace," Voices of Art, July/August, Vol.4, No. 2 1996    Bowyer, Leslie. "Getting Coexistence," PitchWeekly, August 1st 1996    Alice Thorson. "Legends of Cahuillan Indians Come to Life in 'Tahquitz'," Kansas City Star, July 5 1996    Sodders, Lisa. "Man-made Magic and Myths," The Capital-Journal, June 30 1996    Martin, Victoria. "Tracing Cultures at the Museum of Photographic Arts," Artweek, February, Vol. 27, No. 2 1995    José Luis Brea. "Threshold," Artforum, November 1995    Nusbaum, Eliot. "Art's Space," Des Moines Sunday Register, July 16 1995    Cameron, Dan. "On Crossing Boundaries," Threshold/Limares, Fundaçao de Serralves 1995    Robinson, Joan Seeman. "Landscape As Metaphor," Artforum, Summer 1995    Rapoport, Sonya. "Color in the Shadows," Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 1 1994    Hummer, Tracey C. "Landscape As Metaphor," dialogue, November-December 1994    Litt, Steven. "Museum, Artists Explore New Vistas," Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 1994    Hall, Jacqueline. "Landscape On Massive Scale," Columbus Dispatch, October 23 1994    Dickinson, Carol V. "Landscape As Metaphor," ARTNews, October 1994    Wilson, Malin. "Art Explores Religion, Culture," Journal North, September 1 1994    Clemmer, David. "Lewis deSoto, Crossing/Cruzandose," THE Magazine 1994    Deats, Suzanne. "Tension Symbolism Permeate CCA Show," Albuquerque Journal, August 18 1994    Barnet-Sanchez, Holly. "Interview with Lewis deSoto," Crossing/Cruzandose, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM Selected Collections Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Bank of America, San Francisco, CA René di Rosa, Sonoma, CA California Museum of Photography, Riversid, CA Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MI Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Collection, Long Beach, CA Media Foundation, San Francisco, CA Microsoft Corporation, Bellevue, WA Joel and Sherry Mallin, New York, NY Joseph and Elaine Monsen, Seattle, WA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Museum of History and Art, Fribourg, Switzerland Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego David O'Mara, San Jose, CA Neuberger Berman, New York Tom Patchett, Los Angeles, CA Phoenix Arts Commission, AZ Safeco Corporation, Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Art Commission
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