Seydou Keïta (Malian, –2001)

Timeline

1923
Born in Bamako, Mali.
2001
Died in France
Resided in Bamako, Mali

Exhibitions

2006
About Africa I, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, March 16-April 22, 2006.
2006
Seydou Keïta: The Image King of Africa, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, January 28-March 4, 2006. (solo)
2006
Seydou Keïta, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, February 25-April 11, 2006. (solo)
2005
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
2005
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY, February 3-May 29, 2005.
2005
Contact: 9th Annual Toronto Photography Festival, Alliance Francaise Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 1-June 30, 2005.
2005
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
2005
Click, GoodmanGallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 23-August 27, 2005.
2005
Faces in the Crowd: Images of Modern Life from Manet to today, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
2005
Corporate Culture, The Fleming Collection, London, UK
2004–2005
Keïta and Malick Sidibé, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO, September 17, 2004-January 2005.
2004–2005
Engaging the Camera: African Women, Portraits, and Photographs of Hector Acebes, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, October 28, 2004-February 21, 2005.
2004–2005
5th Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako 2003: Rites Sacrés/Rites Profanes, Maison Africaine de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali, October 20-November 20, 2003. Traveled to: Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, December 9, 2004-February 22, 2005.
2004
Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY, November 3-December 17, 2004.
2004
Fifty One Celebrates Four Years, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, June 12-August 1, 2004.
2004
La Collection d’Art Contemporain d’Agnès B., Les Abbattoirs, Toulouse, France, April 9-June 14, 2004.
2004
Joy of Life – Two Photographers from Africa, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, February 15-April 11, 2004.
2004
Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
2004
AIM 24 :Portraits and Places, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2004
Portraits of African Women, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Alanta, GA
2003–2004
Go Johnny Go! The Electric Guitar – Art and Myth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2003-March 7, 2004.
2003–2004
Village Global: Années 60, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, October 2, 2003-January 18, 2004. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, February 19-May 23, 2004.
2003
Les Ateliers des Désirs, Centre Culturel Francais Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2003.
2003
Patchworking, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germeny, September 6-October 18, 2003.
2003
Fables de l’Identité: Oeuvres de la Collection NSM Vie/ABN AMRO, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France, June 18-August 25, 2003.
2003
Mali Portraits From the 50s by Seydou Keïta, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, January-March 14, 2003. (solo)
2003
Mali Portraits by Seydou Keïta, The William Bennington Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (solo)
2002–2003
Alter Ego: Anthropologies Involontaires, Mundaneum Museum, Mons, Belgium, June 20-October 31, 2002. Traveled to: Hotel de Sully, Paris, France, January 17-March 23, 2003.
2002
Childhood – Collection of the National Fund of Modern Art, Paris, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, April 12-May 17, 2002.
2002
Fosso, Moderna Museet c/o Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-October 6, 2002. Traveled to: Norskt Fotomuseum, Oslo, Norway, March-April, 2003.
2002
Seydou Keïta: Portraits, Grany Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
2002
Face Time, Atlanta Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2002
Portraits of Pride – Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé and Samuel Fosso, Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm
2002
The Short Century: Liberation and Independence Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2002
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
2001
XVI International Video and Multimedia Arts Festival, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2001
Seydou Keïta, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Seydou Keïta: Portraits from Mali, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (solo)
2001
Flash Afrique: Fotografie aus Westafrika, Kunsthalle, Wien, Germany, September 7-November 11, 2001.
2000
Azaglo and Ojeikere, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium.
2000
Voilà, Le Monde Dans La Tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, June 15-October 29, 2000.
2000
Africa: Past-Present: Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keita, P.K. Apagya, Depara, CA
1999–2000
Kunst-Welten im Dialog von Gauguin zur Globalen Gegenwart/Glabal Art-Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig Koln, Cologne, Germany, November 5, 1999-March 19, 2000.
1999
L’Afrique Independente, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC.
1999
PhotoEspana 99, Madrid, Spain.
1998
Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil, 1998.
1998
Moscou 2nd Biennal for Photography, Moscow, Russia, 1998.
1997
Trade Routes: History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1997
Seydou Keïta: Photographs from Mali, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, October 18-November 1, 1997. Traveled to: Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, July 10-August 16, 1997. (solo)
1996
In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, May 24-September 29, 1996.
1996
Seydou Keïta, photographer: Portraits from Bamako, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1995
Seydou Keïta, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)
1995
Big City Artists from Africa, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.
1995
Seydou Keïta & Malik Sidibé, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 20-October 21, 1995.
1995
Counter Cultures: Photography and Image Formation in a Multicultural Society, The Netherlands Photography Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
1995
Multiple Exposure – The Group Portrait in Photography, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, 1995. Traveled to: Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
1994
Premières Rencontres de la Photographie de Bamako, Bamako, Mali, 1994.
1994
Seydou Keïta, Ginza Shiseido Art Space, Tokyo, Japan. (solo)
1994
Seydou Keïta: Portraits de 1949 à 1964, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
1993
24th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
1993
Images of Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Literature

2005
Amselle, Jean-Loup, “Africa Remix: Géopolitique de l’Art Contemporain Africain,” artpress, Issue 312, May 2005, pp. 22-26
2005
Barker, Godfrey, “Art as Strategy,” Art + Auction, Volume XXVII, No. 11, July 2005, p. 20
2005
Cotter, Holland. “Art Review: Turning ‘Them’ to ‘Us’ Face by Familiar Face,” The New York Times, January 14, 2005, E42
2005
“In Vogue: Out of Africa,” British Vogue, 2005 (N.D.), p.91
2005
“London: Faces in the Crowd,” FlashArt, January – February 2005, p. 107.
2005
Spiegler, Marc. “Negative Charges,” Art + Auction, February 2005, pp. 94-101
2005
“Tribal Art,” Art + Auction, Volume XXVII, No. 11, July 2005, p. 86
2004
“Engaging the Camera: African Women, Portraits and the Photographs of Hector Acebes,” at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, October 28, 2004 – February 21, 2005
2004
“A decouvrir Durant le Mois de la Photographie a Paris,” e-mail from Jean-Marc Patras at JM Patras Galerie, Paris, November 12, 2004.
2004
Bonetti, David. “Sheldon Africa Exhibits,” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 26, 2004
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