Born San Bernardino, California
B.A. Studio Art & Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside, 1978
M.F.A. Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1981
Professor of Art, Art Department, San Francisco State University, 1988-present
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2004 Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2002 Paranirvana, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (to travel nationally)
Recollection (Toward Oblivion), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
La Cena Pasada, Bill Maynes Gallery
2001 Paranirvana, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The End of Desire, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, California
2000 Ship, Bill Maynes Gallery
Paranirvana, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University
Five Figures, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Recumbent, Bill Maynes Gallery
1998 Recital, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ship, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Kalpa, I-Space, Chicago
1997 Kalpa and Passenger, Bill Maynes Gallery
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Dervish, Metronm, Barcelona, Spain
1996 Tahquitz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The Sound of the Trumpet, ARTPACE, San Antonio, Texas
1995 Site Works 1983-86, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Observatory, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Four Interventions, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Interrogation, (for Counterspace Project), Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Crossing/Cruzandose, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Falling, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
1993 Tahualtapa Project and Video Room, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Crossing/Cruzandose, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego
Killing Time, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Observatory, California Museum of Photography, Riverside
1992 Alas Time, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Ksh Ttayawet/Dream House/Wampksh, Installation with James Luna, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego
OFFICE, Wise Taylor Partnerships @ Rose Court, London, UK
1991 The Language of Paradise, Artists Space, New York
The Songs of Menil, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
P Tkmiyat, P Tkmiyat (Darkness, Darkness), San Jose Museum of Art, California
The Language of Paradise, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley
1990 Hypatak, Witness, Kansatsusha, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
Garage, with Dale Kistemaker, Secession Gallery, San Francisco
Air, October-December, Aviary, June-August, The Language of Paradise, April-May, Edison Song (Tesla Sings for a Deaf Edison), March-April, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, Sausalito, California
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003 Lewis deSoto, Linda
Connor, Bill Ivey,
Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Defying
Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art
The Invisible Thread, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
2002 Permeable Boundaries, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery
2001 Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Eureka Fellowship Award Artists, San Jose Museum of Art
Eureka Too! Fellowship Awards 1999-2000, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
2000 Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Arboresence, Paradise Ridge Sculpture Park, Santa Rosa, California
Noisemakers, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississsauga, Ontario, Canada
1999 Bay Area Now 2, Yerba-Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
MIR. Art in Space, Comune di Bolzano, Stadgemeinde Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
1998 Back Room Noise, Refusalon
Dromology: Ecstacies of Speed, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Paullina Cupana, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Landscape and Memory, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Plugged In, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue, travels)
When Borders Migrate, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
1997 The Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1996 Brazil-USA Exchange, Galeria Camargo Vilaa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fragments, Museu DArt Contemporani, Barcelona, March-May and Koldo Metxelena, San Sebastin, Spain
NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Matters of the Heart, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Almaraz to Zuniga: Hispanic Artists from the BankAmerica Collection, A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
1995 Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, Ansel Adams Center, Friends of Photography, San Francisco (catalogue, travels) Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo ex Templo de Santa Teresa la Antigua, Mexico City
Threshold/Limiares, Fundao De Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Facing Eden, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
1994 Los Angeles Mind Quakes, DeBeyerd Center For Contemporary Art, Breda, Netherlands
Issues of Image, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Marking Time, Sigma Gallery, New York
Landscape As Metaphor, Visions of America in the Late Twentieth Century, Denver Art Museum, May-September, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, October to January 1995
Home Video: Redefined, Center for Contemporary Art, Miami
Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyberart, Oliver Art Center, Oakland
1993 Indian Territories, Rene Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Contemporary Identities, Phoenix Art Museum
Bas Jan Ader, Lewis deSoto, David Deutch, Maureen Gallace, Rodney Graham, Mary Lucier, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Multiple World: An International Survey of Artist Books, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta
Producing Columbus, Claremont Colleges Art Galleries
1992 The Spatial Drive, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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, California
Earth Day 1990: Artists Respond To The Environment, Palo Alto Cultural Center, California
1989 Night Light, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
1988 Natural Selection: The Terrain of Southern California, Riverside Art Museum, California
Sum of the Parts, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Selected Bibliography:
2003 Artner, Alan G. deSotos 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, Glria, Photography: New Territories for Reality, catalog essay in Fragments, Museu DArt 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 Jos Luis Brea. Threshold, Artforum, November
Nusbaum, Eliot. Arts Space, Des Moines Sunday Register, July 16
Cameron, Dan. On Crossing Boundaries. . . Threshold/Limares, Fundaao 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
Selected Collections:
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles
Bank of America (Security Pacific Bank), San Francisco
Des Moines Art Center
Fundaci Rafael Tous dArt Contemporani, Barcelona
Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Collection
Microsoft Corporation, Bellevue, Washington
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tom Patchett, Los Angeles
San Jose Museum of Art
Seattle Art Museum