Seydou Keïta

(Malian, 1923–2001)

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Seydou Keïta

Three Sisters

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Seydou Keïta

Young Couple, ca. 1960

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Biography

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.
Seydou Keïta: The Image King of Africa, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, January 28-March 4, 2006. (solo)
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.
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY, February 3-May 29, 2005.
Contact: 9th Annual Toronto Photography Festival, Alliance Francaise Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 1-June 30, 2005.
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
Click, GoodmanGallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 23-August 27, 2005.
Faces in the Crowd: Images of Modern Life from Manet to today, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Corporate Culture, The Fleming Collection, London, UK

Literature

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