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- Born
- 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 minor, University of California, Riverside
- 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
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2011
- Appellation Series, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA
- Ransom: An Art Installation, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
- 2009
- Before After, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, catalog
- 2008
- Paranirvana, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
- Tales of Power, diRosa Preserve, Napa, CA
- 2007
- Selected Works, Brian Gross at One Post, San Francisco, CA
- Sonoma County Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
- 2006
- Selected Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2004
- Paranirvana, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, catalog
- Paranirvana, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, catalog
- Paranirvana, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, catalog
- 2002
- Paranirvana, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
- Recollection (Toward Oblivion), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
- La Cena Pasada, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- 2001
- Paranirvana, Worcester Art Museum, MA
- The End of Desire, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA
- 2000
- Ship, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- Paranirvana, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, MO
- Five Figures, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1999
- Recumbent, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- 1998
- Recital, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
- Ship, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Kalpa, I-Space, Chicago, IL
- 1997
- Kalpa and Passenger, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Dervish, Metronòm, Barcelona, Spain
- 1996
- Tahquitz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
- The Sound of the Trumpet, ARTPACE, San Antonio, TX
- 1995
- Site Works 1983-86, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Observatory, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
- Four Interventions, Des Moines Art Center, IA
- Interrogation, (for Counterspace Project), Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1994
- Crossing/Cruzandose, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
- Falling, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1993
- Tahualtapa Project and Video Room, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Crossing/Cruzandose, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
- Killing Time, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
- Observatory, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
- 1992
- Alas Time, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Kísh Tétayawet/Dream House/Wampkísh, Installation with James Luna, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
- OFFICE, Wise Taylor Partnerships @ Rose Court, London, UK
- 1991
- The Language of Paradise, Artists Space, New York, NY
- The Songs of Menil, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Pé Túkmiyat, Pé Túkmiyat (Darkness, Darkness), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- The Language of Paradise, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, CA
- 1990
- Háypatak, Witness, Kansatsusha, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, CA
- Garage, with Dale Kistemaker, Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 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
- 2014
- Active Color: Works by Marco Casentini and Lewis deSoto, One Post Street, San Francisco, CA
- 2012
- Tahquitz, Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA
- 2011
- Discrepancy: Living Between War and Peace, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
- 2009
- Altered States: The Collection in Context, di Rosa Gallery, Napa, CA
- Paper/Mylar/Vellum, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Attempt To Raise Hell, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- Cosmologies: Anything that exists has a beginning, Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, B.C., catalog
- 2008
- The Missing Peace, Hillside Terrace, Shibuya, Tokyo, catalog
- Magnolia Tapestry Project, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
- Pursuit of the Spirit, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
- Art from the North Bay Wine Country/Muse Among the Vines, Oakland Museum of Califonia/Oakland International Airport
- The Question is Known (w)here is Latin American/Latino Art?, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
- 2007
- 3 × 3, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
- Excavations, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
- Home Sweet Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- There’s No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
- 2003
- Lewis deSoto, Linda Connor, Bill Ivey, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
- Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC
- The Invisible Thread, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, NY
- 2002
- Permeable Boundaries, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, NY
- Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, NY
- 2001
- Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- 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
- Arboresence, Paradise Ridge Sculpture Park, Santa Rosa, CA
- Noisemakers, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississsauga, Ontario, Canada
- 1999
- Bay Area Now 2, Yerba-Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- MIR. Art in Space, Comune di Bolzano, Stadgemeinde Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
- 1998
- Back Room Noise, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
- Dromology: Ecstacies of Speed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Paullina Cupana, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
- Landscape and Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Plugged In, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 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
- Fragments, Museu D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona;Koldo Metxelena, San Sebastián, Spain
- NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
- Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 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
- Threshold/Limiares, Fundação De Serralves, Porto, Portugal
- Facing Eden, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1994
- Los Angeles Mind Quakes, DeBeyerd Center For Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands
- Issues of Image, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Marking Time, Sigma Gallery, New York, NY
- Landscape As Metaphor, Visions of America in the Late Twentieth Century, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- Home Video: Redefined, Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyberart, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
- 1993
- Indian Territories, Renée Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
- Contemporary Identities, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
- Bas Jan Ader, Lewis deSoto, David Deutch, Maureen Gallace, Rodney Graham, Mary Lucier, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
- Multiple World: An International Survey of Artist Books, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- Producing Columbus, Claremont Colleges Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
- 1992
- The Spatial Drive, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- 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
- Waterworks, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
- 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
- Sum of the Parts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Selected Collections
- Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
- Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
- René di Rosa, Napa, CA
- California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
- Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
- Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MO
- 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, CA
- 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
- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- Serralves Foundation, Oporto, Portugal
- Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
- Syntex Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA.
- Rafael Tous, Barcelona, Spain
- University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
- Weisman Museum at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
- Robert Wilson, New York, NY
- Public Projects
- 2009
- City of New York, Roberto Clementé Plaza, South Bronx
- 2007
- City of San Francisco, Laguna Honda Hospital History Project, tapestries
- 2006
- City of Oakland, Oakland Estuary Project, Design Collaboration with John Roloff, Sasaki and Associates
- San Francisco International Airport, “Sister Cities Project,” 15 light projections
- 2004
- City of San José, Animal Care Center, San José, CA, “Shelter,” Frieze, sculpture and wall works
- 2003
- University of Texas, San Antonio, Downtown Campus, “Labyrinth Gateway”, Sculpture
- 2002
- STart-Sound Transit Light Rail Project, First Hill Station, Seattle, Washington, Collaboration with Nobuho Nagasawa.
- Artist, City of San Francisco, Laguna Honda Hospital History Project, tapestries
- 2000
- San Francisco State University College of Creative Arts Complex, San Francisco, CA, Exterior and Interior Architectural Treatments Design.
- 2001
- Artist, City of San José, Animal Care Center, San José, CA, “Shelter,” Frieze, sculpture and wall works
- 1999
- Sony Corporation Regional Headquarters, San Jose, CA, Courtyard Design and Sculpture
- Seattle Art Commission, Seattle, WA, Sand Point Naval Station. Project Funded: “Liberty” Sound work for outdoor area
- 1998
- San Francisco Arts Commission, Civic Center Historic District Improvement Project, Architects: Andy Maloney, John Thomas, San Francisco Department of Public Works, Simon, Martin-Vegue, Winkelstein,Moris with Lori Olsen.
- San Francisco Arts Commission, International Airport Design Team (Artists: Vito Acconci, Jamie Carpenter and SuChen Hung Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,). Project funded: “On The Air”, 12,000 square foot terrazzo floor
- San Francisco Arts Commission, Court House Design Team (Architects, Mark Cavagnero, Hood/Miller, Ross/Druliss) Project funded: Jury AssemblyRoom
- 1992
- Phoenix Arts Commission, Phoenix International Airport, “A Lineage of Wings”, 44 laser-etched glass panels spanning 760’ skybridge
- San Francisco Arts Commission, Market Street Art in Transit Program, “Crossings: Native Lives and Junipero Serra,” Bus Poster, 4’x6’
- 1989
- San Francisco State University. “The Creative Presence”, Digital Photo-Mural, 19’x6’
- Nine-One-One Contemporary Arts Center, Seattle, WA, August-October, Homes for Art, “Apparition of Passion, (St. Joan of Arc)”, The Ventura House (former convent for the Immaculate Conception Church), Seattle, WA, Projection, electronics and lighting
- Selected Video Screenings
- 2004
- San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
- Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, OH
- 2003
- Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- 2002
- Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- 2000
- University of Texas, San Antonio
- 1997
- Art Center, Pasadena, CA
- Circulo des Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain
- Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain
- 1995
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
- 1994
- San Francisco Art Institute
- 1993
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- University of Göthenberg, Göthenberg, Sweden
- Claremont Graduate School
- University of California, Irvine
- 1992
- CalArts, Valencia, CA
- Media Foundation, San Francisco, CA
- 1990
- Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, Monterey, CA
- DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, “Myth Into Art” Symposium
- Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
- University of California, Riverside
- Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
- 1989
- Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
- Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
- Artist In Residence
- 2000
- Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA, one month residency
- 1997-98
- List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 1996
- Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, 3 month residency
- 1990
- Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA, ten month residency
- Publications
- The DeSoto Conquest, Jordan Biren, Video, 21 minutes, 2005
- Lewis deSoto: Spirit and Matter, Helaine Posner, Stephanie Hanor with forward by Dan Mills, Bucknell University Press, 48 Pages. 2003
- Lewis deSoto: Ship, Cameron, Dan, “Total Immersion”, SmartArt Press, 40 pages, 18 color illustrations, 1998
- Anthology of Artists’ Writings, “Wandering,” Lewis deSoto with Eve Andrée Laramée, Maurizio Pelligrin, editor, Trieste Contemporanea, Italy, 1998
- Grand Street #62 (Identity), “Kalpa [portfolio], pages 88-92, September 1997
- Tate (UK), “Heat and Cold”, Artist project with Dorothy Cross, Issue 10, Winter 1996, 48-52.
- KINGDOMS, Lewis deSoto & Rebecca Solnit, 50 pages, California Museum Of Photography Press,1993
- BLAST: Remaking Civilization, Contributor, edited and published by X-Art Foundation, New York,1993
- Blast: The Spatial Drive, Contributor, edited and published by X-Art Foundation, New York, 1992
- Selected Bibliography
- 2007
- Torres, Anthony, “Obsession, Art and Artifacts from Sonoma Private Collections,” Whitehot Magazine, November.
- Shuster, Robert, “The Icon’s Icon,” The Village Voice, July 31st.
- Lentini, Lara Kristen, “No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art,” Art Papers, January/February.
- 2006
- Hawkins, Margaret, “Dalai Lama Tribute Uneven, But Brilliant at Best,” Chicago Sun-Times, December 1st.
- Rosenberg, Randy, The Missing Peace, Artists and the Dalai Lama, 2006, 171 pages.
- Malooley, Jake, “Artists Give Peace a Chance,” Time Out/Chicago, Issue 87, Oct 26th-November 1st.
- Artner, Alan G., “Art of Peace: 88 Views on the Dalai Lama,” Chicago Tribune, November 2nd.
- Baker, Kenneth, “Galleries, Patrick Wilson, Paintings, Lewis deSoto, Recent Works,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 21st
- Gencchio, Ben, “Visions of Native Americans in Today’s World,” New York Times, September 16th.
- Cowin, Alison Leigh, “A Pile of Blankets. . .,” New York Times, August 25th.
- M.du Tan, S.A., The Missing Peace-88 Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Coagula, June.
- Paglia, Michael, “Turf Wars,” Denver Westword, March 2nd.
- 2005
- Garfinkel, Perry, “Buddha Rising,” National Geographic Magazine, December, pages 88-109.
- Wei, Lilly, Olivia Georgia, The Invisible Thread, Buddhist Spirit In Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 112 pages.
- 2004
- Panicelli, Ida, “The Invisible Thread,” Artforum International, February, page 153.
- 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
- Posner, Helaine. “Lewis deSoto: Spirit and Matter,” Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana (self-portrait), exhibition catalogue, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University
- Rapku, John. “Lewis deSoto at the Headlands Center for the Arts,” Art Week, January/February
- 2001
- Sherman, Mary. “DeSoto reaches ‘Paranirvana’,” Boston Herald
- Lloyd, Ann Wilson. “Report from St. Louis: Art Under the Arch,” Art in America, July (illustrated).
- Bonetti, David. “Eureka Exhibition Much Improved” San Francisco Chronicle, February 1
- Fischer, Jack. “Artists to Keep an Eye On,” San Jose Mercury News, January 14.
- 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
- Humphrey, David. Art Issues, November/December
- Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art in Review, September 29
- 1999
- Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art in Review, October 29.
- 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)
- 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
- Cross, Dorothy and deSoto, Lewis. “Heat and Cold”, Tate, Issue 10, Winter
- Freeman, David. “New Works: 96.2 at ArtPace”, Voices of Art, July/August, Vol.4, No. 2
- Bowyer, Leslie. “Getting Coexistence”, PitchWeekly, August 1st
- Alice Thorson. “Legends of Cahuillan Indians Come to Life in ‘Tahquitz’”, Kansas City Star, July 5
- Sodders, Lisa. “Man-made Magic and Myths,” The Capital-Journal, June 30
- Martin, Victoria. “‘Tracing Cultures’ at the Museum of Photographic Arts,” Artweek, February, Vol. 27, No. 2
- 1995
- José Luis Brea. “Threshold”, Artforum, November
- Nusbaum, Eliot. “Art’s Space”, Des Moines Sunday Register, July 16
- Cameron, Dan. “On Crossing Boundaries,” Threshold/Limares, Fundaçao de Serralves
- Robinson, Joan Seeman. “Landscape As Metaphor”, Artforum, Summer
- Rapoport, Sonya. “Color in the Shadows”, Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 1
- 1994
- Hummer, Tracey C. “Landscape As Metaphor”, dialogue, November-December
- Litt, Steven. “Museum, Artists Explore New Vistas”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, November
- Hall, Jacqueline. “Landscape On Massive Scale,” Columbus Dispatch, October 23
- Dickinson, Carol V. “Landscape As Metaphor,” ARTNews, October
- Wilson, Malin. “Art Explores Religion, Culture,” Journal North, September 1
- Clemmer, David. “Lewis deSoto, Crossing/Cruzandose,” THE Magazine
- Deats, Suzanne. “Tension Symbolism Permeate CCA Show,” Albuquerque Journal, August 18
- Barnet-Sanchez,Holly. “Interview with Lewis deSoto”, Crossing/Cruzandose, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
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