Allan deSouza is a California-based trans-media artist whose works restage colonial-era material legacies through counter-strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation.
deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and internationally, including at the Krannert Museum, IL; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; and the Pompidou Centre, Paris. deSouza’s book, How Art Can Be Thought (Duke, 2018), examines art pedagogy, and proposes decolonizing artistic, viewing, and pedagogical practices that can form new attachments within the contemporary world. The book provides an extensive analytical glossary of some of the most common terms used to discuss art, while considering how those terms may be adapted to new artistic and social challenges. deSouza is represented by Talwar Gallery, NY and New Delhi, and is Chair of the Department of Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley.
- SOLO EXHIBITIONS/
PUBLIC ARTWORKS - GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- PERFORMANCES/
SCREENINGS - PUBLISHED BOOKS,
SOLO CATALOGUES and JOURNALS - PUBLISHED TEXTS
- LECTURES
- PANELS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOK / JOURNAL ARTICLES - BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRINT PRESS/ONLINE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PUBLIC ARTWORKS
- 2019
- U. Seville, Spain: Building Paradise.
U.Delaware, Newark: Allan deSouza - 2018
- Krannert Art Museum, U. Illinois, Champaign: Through the Black Country, Exped.2.0
Thacher Gallery, USF: Through the Black Country, Exped.2.0 - 2017
- Talwar Gallery, New York: Through the Black Country
Townsend Center, UC Berkeley: Through the Black Country - 2016
- Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC: Contents Under Pressure
- 2015
- Talwar Gallery, New York: Notes From Afar
- 2014
- California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, Flash! Projects: Ark of Martyrs
- 2013
- Block Gallery, Oakland, CA, public video projection: part of Occupations: Art Takes Up Space
- 2012
- Talwar Gallery, New Delhi: Painting Redux
SF Camerawork: The World Series - 2011
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF: Close Quarters and Far Pavilions
Phillips Collection, DC: The World Series
Fowler Museum, Los Angeles: His Masters’ Tools
Talwar Gallery, NY: Trysts Tropicales - 2010
- Krannert Art Museum, U. Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Collins C. Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans - 2008
- Talwar Gallery, New Delhi: Photoworks: 1998 – 2008 (cat.)
University of Arizona, Tucson: Allan deSouza: Fly Zone
Talwar Gallery, NY: (i don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos - 2006
- Clockshop Billboard: public art project, Wilshire/Fairfax, LA
- 2005
- Talwar Gallery, NY: The Lost Pictures (cat.)
VIth Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali: Contours - 2004
- Pomona College Museum of Art, CA. Project Series, The Lost Pictures (cat.)
- 2003
- Talwar Gallery, NY: people in white houses
Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada: Will **** for Peace. collab. w/- Y.S.Min - 2002
- Mezzanine Gallery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis: Will **** for Peace. collab. w/- Y.S. Min
- 2001
- Talwar Gallery, NY: Recent Works
Art In General, NY: Terrain
Susanne Vielmetter Projects LA; Terrible Beauty (re-Siting an unnaturally conditioned Mind) - 1997
- Highways, Santa Monica, CA; Threshold
Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY: AlterNatives. w/- Y.S. Min - 1994
- Camerawork, London: alter idem/performing personae. w/- Y.S. Min
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2019
- Pomona College Museum of Art, CA: Stories: Selections from the Permanent Collection
- 2018
- Asia Society Texas, Houston, New Cartographies
Coulter Art Gallery, U. Stanford: Academic Practice: Bay Area Photography Now
Apex Art, NY: Light in Wartime
Richmond Art Center, CA: Face Forward
Sentanyl, CA: Diplopia
Dakota Gallery, Bellingham, WA: Navigation Pull - 2017
- Thacher Gallery, USF: Modern Myths: South Asian Modern and Contemporary Works
Asia Society, NY: Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions
Cerritos College, CA: On Board
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley: Let the Tool Do the Work - 2016
- Krannert Art Museum, IL: Time/Image
Richmond Art Center, CA: The Human Spirit
Richmond Art Center, CA: Making Our Mark
Museum of the African Diaspora, SF (MoAD): Where Is Here
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley: Engram - 2015
- Phillips Collection, DC: Intersections@5
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston: Time/Image
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley: Epic Fail - 2014
- Fowler Museum, LA: Earth Matters
Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley: The One and Only - 2013
- Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley: Open Loop–The Life of the Art Object
Marfa, TX, various venues: Heterotopia
Villa Terra Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI: Chasing Horizons
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC: Earth Matters
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NY: War is for the Living - 2011
- Paris Photo: The Walther Collection
Performance Art Institute, SF: keeping An Eye On Surveillance - 2010
- Georges Pompidou Center, Paris: Dreamlands
Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany: Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity.
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas: Material Evidence - 2009
- Overtones Gallery, LA: The Pandemic Show
Hart House, University of Toronto, South-South: Interruptions and Encounters
Axis Gallery, Sacramento: Phosphenes
SOMArts Cultural Center, SF: Invisible Homes - 2008
- Guangzhou Triennial, China; with Yong Soon Min (cat.)
Gwangju Biennale, S.Korea, as part of collective, MYDADA (cat.)
EV+A, Limerick, Ireland: Too Early for Vacation (cat.)
Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland: Emergency Biennale - 2007
- Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh: Double Consciousness
Barnsdall Art Gallery LA: Humor Us
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City: Snap Judgments
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa: Africa Remix
Museum of the African Diaspora: Lens on Life; Bamako to SF - 2006
- La Casa de los Coroneles, Fuerteventura: Biennale of the Canaries
Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand: The Arrivals
REDCat Gallery, LA: An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life
International Center for Photography, NY: Snap Judgements (cat.) - 2005
- Courtyard Gallery, NY: Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa
Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT): CorteFusión: Fotografía manipulada de Tijuana y LÁ
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany: Anthology of Art - 2004
- Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf: Africa Remix
William Benton Museum of Art, CT: Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art
18th Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: Prism
Philadelphia Museum of Art: African Art, African Voices - 2003
- Museum for African Art, NY: Looking Both Ways (cat.)
San Jose Museum of Art, CA: Un/Familiar Territory
Contemporary Art Museum, Uni. Of S. Florida, Tampa: Unnaturally (cat.) - 2002
- India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India: Borderless Terrain (cat.)
M.Y. Art Prospects, NY: Relations
Fisher Gallery, USC, LA: Global Address (cat.)
Cherrydelosreyes, LA: Dermatone - 2001
- Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA: Phigment
India Center of Art and Culture, NY: Home and The World (cat.) - 2000
- Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA: Cosmic Dermis
London Biennale, The Freud Centre, England: Imaging the Wunderboard
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY: ID/Y2K (cat.)
Baum Gallery, Conway, AR: Contemporary Art and Identity (cat.) - 1999
- Camerawork, San Francisco: Body/Language
Miller/Durazo Gallery, LA: Transit
Barnsdall Art Gallery, LA: The Mourning After (cat.) - 1998
- Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal: Where I am (cat.)
New Museum, NY: Urban Encounters - 1997
- The Photographers Gallery, London: Translocations
Studio Museum, Harlem, NY: Transforming the Crown (cat.)
The Queens Museum, NY: Out of India (cat.) - 1996
- American Photography Institute, NY: National Graduate Photography
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Benefit
UC Irvine Gallery: Terminals - 1995
- MTA/Arts for Transit & Organization of Independent Artists,NY: “Fire Without Gold” at Jamaica St. and Yankee Stadium subway stations
- 1994
- Houston Center for Photography, TX: Picturing Asia America
Desh Pardesh Festival, Toronto, Canada
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: Beyond the Borders (cat.) - 1993
- Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Show (cat.)
Whitney Museum, NY: Whitney Biennial. Video collaboration with Yong Soon Min, included in Shu Lea Chang’s installation, “Those Fluttering Objects of Desire” - 1992
- Exit Art, NY: Those Fluttering Objects of Desire
Leicester City Gallery, England: Crossing Black Waters (cat.) - 1991
- Art In General, NY: Artists Engulfed Against War
Grey Art Gallery, NY: Interrogating Identity. - 1990
- Embassy Cultural Center, London, Ontario: Siting Resistance
Impressions Gallery, York: Ecstatic Antibodies (cat.) - 1989
- National Museum of Havana, Cuba: Third Havana Biennale
- 1988
- Chisenhale Gallery, London, England: The Essential Black Art
- 1987
- Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester: The Image Employed (cat.)
- 1986
- Elbow Room, London: Unrecorded Truths (cat.)
PERFORMANCES/SCREENINGS
- 2016
- Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA: Explaining Pictures to Dead Air
- 2014
- California Institute for the Arts (CalArts): Strangers in Our Own Country
California College of the Arts (CCA): Strangers in Our Own Country - 2011
- SOMArts, SF: Third Strike, 100 Performances for the Hole
Kadist Foundation: LivingRoom 2.0 - 2010
- Berkeley Art Museum: Beasts In Space
SOMArts, SF: XX, XWH - 2008
- Flyboy, Harvard Uni, MA: New Geographies in Contemporary Art, conference presentatio
- 2007
- Two Gurus in Drag, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; S1F Gallery, LA, video screening
2006
ReDo (Allison Knowles), at School of the Art Institute of Chicao - 2005
- Danço-te, music DVD, a project by Bia Gayotto
- 2004
- X, at SsamzieSpace, Seoul, S.Korea
- 2003
- Will **** for Peace, at Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- 2002
- Will **** for Peace, at Mezzanine Gallery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis
- 1998
- Tress/Pass, outdoors, between Paris and Madrid
- 1994
- performing personae, outdoors, Los Angeles
PUBLISHED BOOKS, SOLO CATALOGUES and JOURNALS
- 2018
- How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change, Duke University Press.
- 2008
- Allan deSouza Photoworks:
- 1998-2008,
- exhibition catalogue, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
- 2005
- The Lost Pictures, exhibition catalogue, Talwar Gallery, NY
- 2004
- The Lost Pictures, exhibition catalogue, Pomona Museum
- 2003
- Will **** for Peace, exhibition brochures (x2), Oboro Gallery, Montreal
- 2002
- X-TRA, Vol.4, No.3, The Travel Issue, LA, editor
- 1997
- AlterNatives, exhibition catalogue, Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY
- 1993
- Godzilla, Asian Pacific American Newsletter, NY, guest editor
- 1992
- Crossing Black Waters, co-editor, with Merali, S., pub. Working Press, London
- 1986
- The Sikhs in Britain, pub. Batsford, London
PUBLISHED TEXTS
- 2019
- Images and cover from Through the Black Country, in Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory,
Method, Practice, eds. Leitner, Peck, Sheppard, Sage Press (forthcoming)
Selection of images from Through the Black Country, in Moving Images: Mediating
Migration as Crisis, eds. Lynes, Morgenstern, Paul, Transcript Verlag (forthcoming)
Cover image, Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities, eds.
Fincher, Iveson, Leitner, Preston. U. Minnesota Press (forthcoming) - 2018
- Through the Black Country, in World on the Horizon, eds. P.Meyer, A. Purpura. Krannert
Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. - 2016
- History, entry for Dictionary of the Possible, Shifter Magazine pub., NY.
What It Is, Now, Time Zones, Representations journal.
Blinding Light, More Than Meets the Eye, eds. J.Lerner, et al. Scalar Press
http://scalar.usc.edu/works/more-than-meets-the-eye-the-videos-of-tran-t-kim-trang/ - 2015
- A Beginning History of the Riot: 1977, Art Practical, #6.5 (www.artpractical.com)
- 2013
- Where You Lookin At? in Earth Matters, Nat. Museum of African Art, Washington DC
ArtSchooling, with Jeannene Przyblyski, in Shifter, #20, NY
Undisciplined Knowledge, with Allyson Purpura, in African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work, eds., Grabski, Magee, Indiana U. Press - 2012
- Proposals for Coercive and Non-Coercive Rearrangements of Desire, in Shifter, No.19. NY.
- 2009
- Bombay, South-South: Interruptions and Encounters, Hart House, Uni.Toronto
A Discourse Concerning Art Practice, Camerawork Journal, Vol.36, No.2, p.13–19
White Skin, Black Mask: On Man Ray’s Photography, Phillips Collection Magazine, DC - 2008
- My Mother, My Sight, in Allan deSouza Photoworks: 1998-2008, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi
FlyBoy, in Allan deSouza Photoworks: 1998-2008, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi - 2007
- Is This Not A…?, in X-TRA, LA, Vol.9.3;
- 2006
- It’s Not Punny If You Have to Explain It, Act III, in X-TRA, LA, Vol.9.1
- 2005
- Encounters With the Trans-Glocal, in Battle of Visions: Critical Art of Korea, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
CoRespondents, with Yong Soon Min, in Shades of Black, Duke Uni. Press
Postcard from Paris, X-TRA, LA, Vol.8.1
Postcard from Lisbon, X-TRA, LA, Vol.7.4
Postcard from Detroit, X-TRA, LA, Vol.7.3 - 2004
- Postcard from Seoul, X-TRA, LA, Vol.7.2
Postcard from Salem, X-TRA, LA, Vol.7.1
Postcard from Seattle, X-TRA, LA, Vol.6.4
Sun Worshiping In Europe, X-TRA, LA, Vol.6.3 - 2003
- Name Calling (revised), in Looking Both Ways, exhib. cat., Museum for African Art, NY
The Dream of the Audience: the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, X-TRA, Vol. 5.3 - 2002
- Does Riefenstahl Make a Fascist Statement? Los Angeles Times, Counterpunch (10/7)
The Future of Art, Kunst Nach Ground Zero, ed. H.P. Schwerfel, Dumont Press, Germany
The Truth is Out There, Angelic States, Connie Samaras exhib. cat., SFAI - 2001
- The Future of Art, Anthology of Art, online journal, http://www.anthology-of-art.net
- 2000
- Our Lady, Voyeurism, FELIX Journal of Media Arts and Communications
- 1999
- Once Bitten, New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans, ed. David K. Yoo; U. Hawaii Press
- 1998
- interview with the artist, The Headless Buddha; Dinh Le, exhib. cat., LACPSRe.Visions, Re.Visions, Betty Lee exhib. cat., Fellows of Contemporary Art
Dick and Jane, Framework, Vol.9, No.1, LACPS - 1997
- The Flight of/from the Primitive, Third Text, London, No. 38
Return to Bhowani Junction, Amerasia Journal, Vol.23, No.2, UCLA. p.124-139
Portfolio, Positions, East Asia Culures Critique, Vol. 5, No.2, Duke Uni. Pressp. 391-401. - 1996
- Notes on the Margins of the White Body, Naked Truths, exhib. cat., U. Hawai’i
Pantheon, Things That Quicken the Heart, exhib. publication, ed. Soo Jin Kim
Once Bitten, Amerasia Journal, Vol.22, No.1, Asian American Studies, UCLA - 1995
- Sushi Deluxe: Star Trek, Oedipus and the Native Informant, New Observations, No.107
Stories to Read Aloud, On a Bed of Rice, ed. Geraldine Kudaka, Doubleday
Biology Lessons, Strange Fruit, exhib. cat., Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies - 1994
- Going Native, Trophies of Empire, exhib. cat., Bluecoat/Arnolfini Galleries
Indian Aphorisms, photo-text, Rungh Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, Vancouver
Re-Placing Angels (extracts and extractions), Tracing Culture, Whitney Museum, NY - 1993
- The Spoken Word, Third Text, London
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Wolgan Art Monthly, South Korea
Circle of Tongues, Asian Pacific American Journal, NY, Vol. 2, No. 2 - 1992
- Confrontations, Creative Camera, London
Returning the Gaze, Autograph Newsletter, London
The Colonial Legacy, Crossing Black Waters, pub. Working Press, London - 1991
- The Maharajah’s New Clothes, Bazaar, No. 16, London
- 1990
- Cuba Libre:The Havana Biennale, Bazaar, No. 11, London
Portrait of the Artist…, Ecstatic Antibodies, ed. S. Gupta, pub. Rivers Oram Press, London
Elvis Was Black!, Bazaar, No. 15, London - 1989
- Goan Dancing, Bazaar, No. 9, London
LECTURES
- 2019
- CUNY Graduate Center, NY.
New York University (NYU)
University of Seville, Faculty of Fine Arts, Spain
Pomona College Museum of Art, CA.
Curatorial Research Bureau at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, CA.
Berkeley Art Museum
San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Lecture Series
Townsend Center, UC Berkeley: Book Chat
Café Society, at Kaleidoscope Coffee, Richmond, CA - 2018
- Asia Society Texas, Houston, Artist Talk: Allan deSouza
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR: Critical Pedagogy conference, Keynote
USF, In Conversation with John Zarobell
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign Urbana, IL
Krannert Museum Gallery talk, Through the Black Country,Western Washington University, WA
Berkeley Art Museum: Bodies and Boundaries, in conversation with Alex Saragoza
Thacher Gallery, USF, Gallery talk with Roberto Gutierrez Varea.
Thacher Gallery, USF, Gallery talk with Kathleen Coll. - 2017
- University of San Francisco
- 2016
- Davidson College, NC
San Francisco Art Institute: NoW/Here: The Present as an Entanglement of Absences - 2015
- U.Houston School of Art/Blaffer Museum: Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context
California College of the Arts (CCA), Lynn Kirby class
UC Berkeley, Photo-Literature conference: Texting Photography: The Literate Image - 2014
- CalArts
California College of the Arts (CCA)
UCLA, (Re)Mapping Global Modernities Conference - 2013
- UC Berkeley, ATC Colloquium, Center for New Media
Freie Universitat Berlin - 2012
- Barnard College, NY
CUNY, Graduate Center, NY
Pratt Institute, NY
U.Texas, Austin - 2011
- Berkeley Arts Center, CA
Phillips Collection, DC
Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
San Francisco State University, CA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Loyola University, New Orleans - 2010
- California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA - 2009
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Vermont, Burlington
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC - 2008
- Global Institute, Seoul, Korea
UC Berkeley, CA
Clark Institute, MA: Art History and Diaspora: Genealogies, Theories, Practices - 2007
- Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI
Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco - 2006
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Miami Art Central, FL
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
University of Arizona, Tucson
UC Berkeley, CA - 2005
- University of Illinois, Chicago: The Other Dark Meat
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cooper Union, NY
University of Southern Maine, Portland - 2004
- Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI. Critical Studies Lecture Series
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - 2003
- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Talwar Gallery, NY - 2002
- Pomona College. CA.
PANELS
- 2019
- College Art Association, New York: A reckoning with the recent future of art historical
knowledge production.
Wendi Norris Gallery, SF: In Conversation: Yamini Nayar and Allan deSouza, moderated by
George McCalman
UC Berkeley, Showcase of Teaching Innovation and Reinvention program (STIR), Critique
as a Way of Learning.
SFMoMA: Allan Kaprow’s Pose, Closed session discussion. - 2018
- College Art Association, Los Angeles: Decolonizing Art Museums.
Berkeley Art Museum: Re-Seeing Dictée
Richmond Art Center, CA: Face Forward
UC Berkeley, Regents Fellowship and Art Practice: In Discussion with Emily Jacir
UC Berkeley, co-sponsored by Art Practice, English, ARC: Discussion with Aruna D’Souza
UC Berkeley, co-sponsored by Art Practice, ISAS: Roundtable with Allan deSouza - 2017
- Concordia University, Montreal: Trespassing Europe
Venice Research Pavilion, Italy: Exclusive Access
Asia Society, NY: Fatal Love Conference: Double Duty: Agency and Cultural Production
Queens Museum, NY: Fatal Love Conference: Photography: Conceptual Horizons - 2016
- Phillips Collection, DC,
UC Berkeley, Experimental Ethnographies: The Image
California College of the Arts, Void Salon - 2015
- UC Berkeley, Photo-Literature Conference
SFAQ Projects, SF: The Gothic - 2014
- CCA, Reel Warrior: A Conversation with Pratibha Parmar
- 2013
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Former West: Manywhere
- 2012
- Berkeley Art Museum: Making Time
Catherine Clark Gallery, SF: What Would Rembrandt Post?
Sherwood Gallery, SF, moderator: Nothing is True, Nothing is Untrue - 2011
- Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF, moderator: Performing Politics
UCLA, Arts Council of the African Studies Assoc: Contemporary Art Sans Frontieres
Performance Art Institute, SF: On Censorship
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF: Seeing Distance: Lens-based Practices in Indian Art - 2009
- The Phillips Collection, Washington DC: Figurative Art: Between East and West
College Art Association Conference, LA, panel chair: Stirring the Remix
African Literature Association Conference, Burlington, VT - 2008
- Clark Institute, MA: Contemporary African Art
- 2007
- University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg: Contemporary African Art
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, moderator: Another Country - 2006
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo: Africa Remix, gallery talks
Berkeley Art Museum, CA: The works of Jeanne Dunning - 2005
- Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon: Looking Both Ways, artist panel
University of Southern Maine, Portland: War Flowers - 2004
- College Art Association Conference, Seattle: Colonial Curry and American Apple Pie
Arts Council of the African Studies Association, Harvard, MA, Expanding Diaspora - 2003
- RAID Projects, LA, moderator: From Feedback to Blowback, mediation as social praxis
Museum for African Art, NY: Looking Both Ways, artists’ panel - 2002
- Qwangju Biennale, Korea, moderator: Predicament of Place, symposium
Verle Annis Gallery, USC: Globalization: Opportunities and Threats
UC Irvine, CA: The Dream of the Audience, The work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - 2001
- Notre Dame Uni. Indiana: Partition and Memory Conference
Duke University. NC: Shades of Black, conference
BIBLIOGRAPHY – BOOK / JOURNAL ARTICLES
- 2019
- Chen, M., Shannon, C., Photography, Bloomsbury (forthcoming)
Chuh, Kandice, The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Duke University Press (w. cover image)
Kerman, Monique, Migration Aesthetics, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art(forthcoming)
Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney, Contemporary African Art, Thames and Hudson (forthcoming) - 2018
- Gopinath, Gayatri, Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora, Duke University Press.
Kerman, Monique, Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation, Palgrave MacMillan Press - 2015
- McGrew, R., Geis, T., eds. RSVP Los Angeles, Pomona College Museum of Art.
- 2015
- Coulais, JF, Images Virtuelles et Horizons du Regard, MetisPresse
Willey, C., Vision-Problems, Cognella Press, CA.
Lazidou, E., Allan deSouza entre Afrique et Asie, in Afrique/Asie: Reseaux, Échanges,
Transversalités eds. Khouri, N., Malaquais, D., Université de Rouen. - 2014
- Lee, Rachel, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosocialiity, and Posthuman Ecologies, NYU Press
Chambers, Eddie, Black Artists in British Art, IB Tauris Press - 2012
- Kerman, Monique, Grappling with “Diaspora” in Contemporary Black British Art, in African and Black Diaspora, Routledge
- 2011
- Rodrigues, G, et al, His Masters’ Tools: Recent Work by Allan deSouza, in Critical Interventions, No.7
- 2010
- Gopinath, Gayatri, in Political Emotions, eds. Staiger, J, et al, Routledge
Haney, Erin, Photography and Africa, Reaktion Books - 2009
- Chang, Alexandra, Envisioning Diaspora, Asian American Visual Arts Collectives, Timezone 8 Press
Enwezor, O; Okeke-Agulu, C, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Damiani Press
Machida, Margo, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, Duke Uni. Press. Pp. 75-87; 228-237
Min, Susette, Aesthetics, in Social Text, Duke U.Press. 27: 27-34
See, Sarita, The Decolonized Eye, U.Minnesota Press
Sternberger, Paul, Me, Myself and India, in Photographies, 2:1, Routledge.pp. 37-58 - 2008
- Lloyd, David, Ruination, in Irish Times: Temporalities of Modernity. Field Day Press, Dublin, p. 127-165
Martin, Courtney J., Surely There Was a Flow… in Flow, Studio Museum of Harlem - 2006
- Nelson, Steven, Diaspora: Multiple Practices, Multiple Worldviews, in A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, ed. Jones, Amelia, Blackwell Press.
Wilding, Faith, Art is Not Bioterrorism: The Criminalization of Critical, Cultural and Intellectual Production, in Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Georgia State U., p. 103-109 - 2005
- Park, Soyang, Third Text: Xen: Yong Soon Min with Allan deSouza, Vol.19, #4, p.427-443
Dias, Nelia, Etnografica, Vol. IX (2), Looking Both Ways, pp. 403-405 - 2004
- Hirsch, Robert, Exploring Color Photography, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, NY. p. 183
Lloyd, David, Third Text, May. Vol.18. No.3. Routledge, NY: Ruination. p.263-273
Oishi, Eve, in The Lost Pictures, exhib. cat., Pomona Museum - 2003
- Lloyd, David, Social Idenitities, Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.Vol.9No.4. Carfax pub.UK: Ruination: Partition and the Expectation of Violence (On Allan deSouza’s Irish Photography). p. 475-509
Mercer, Kobena, in Fresh Talk Daring Gazes, Conversations on Asian American Art, eds.
Kim, E; Machida, M; Mizota, S., UC Press. P. 107-110
Nelson, Steven, in Looking Both Ways, exhib.cat. Museum for African Art, NY - 2002
- Mullen, Harryette, Contact Sheet, Allan deSouza’s Eye, Looking with, Not Looking At, Light Work Annual, Syracuse, NY. p.42-47 (repros.)
- 1999
- Lippard, Lucy, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place, New Press, NY. p.45/46
- 1995
- Fusco, Coco, English is Broken Here, The New Press, p.34
Joseph, May, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, NYU, Vol.7, No.2, repro. w. review: p.86-89
Lippard, Lucy, The Pink Glass Swan, The New Press, p.15
BIBLIOGRAPHY – PRINT PRESS/ONLINE
- 2019
- Harle, Rob, Leonardo, How Art Can Be Thought, Reviews, Feb.
Hember, Polly, LSE Review of Books: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/05/23/book-review-unruly-visions-the-aesthetic-practices-of-queer-diaspora-by-gayatri-gopinath/
Patel, Alpesh Kantilal Hyperallergic, A Philosophical and Practical Handbook on the Development of Artistic Ideas, 5/16. - 2018
- Eggan, Taylor, Discursive Impulse, PNCA, How Art Can Be Thought, 10/15.
Wood, Paul, The News Gazette, On Exhibit, 25 January, 2018. D1/D6.
Photo District News (PDN), Photo of the Day, Allan deSouza, Cluster. 6/25 - 2017
- D’Souza, Aruna, 4Columns, Allan deSouza and Alia Syed
http://www.4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/allan-desouza-and-alia-syed
Khanchandani, Priya, Open the Magazine, Beyond Biographies, 28 July 2017,
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