ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS/ROOM INSTALLATIONS

2008

Allan deSouza: A Decade of Photoworks 1998-2008, Talwar Gallery, New Delhi, India.

Fly Zones, University of Arizona School of Art, Tucson, AZ, US.
(i don’t care what you say) Those Are Not Tourist Photos, Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US.

2006

Clockshop Billboard: Public Art Project, Wilshire/Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA, US.

2005

The Lost Pictures, Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US.
Contours: VIth Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali.
Recent Works w/- Yong Soon Min, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA, US.

2004

The Lost Pictures, Museum of Art, Pomona College, CA, US.

2003

people in white houses, Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US.

2001

Recent Works, Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US.
Terrain, Art In General, New York, NY, US.
Terrible Beauty, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Partition and Memory Conference: Terrible Beauty, University of Notre Dame, IN, US.

2000

Nonzero Sum Games. Collaboration with Yong Soon Min, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA, US.

1998

All You Can Eat, The Upstairs at the Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US.

1997

Threshold, Highways, Santa Monica, CA, US.
AlterNatives. w/- Y.S. Min, Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY, US

1994

alter idem/performing personae. w/- Y. S. Min, Camerawork, London, England.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

3rd Guangzhou Triennale, China w/- Yong Soon Min.
7th Gwangju Biennale, as part of collective, MYDADA, South Korea.
OPEN/INVITED e v +- a 2008, Too Early for Vacation, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland.
Emergency Biennale, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland.

2007

Double Conciousness, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, US.
Lasting Foundations,Chicago Cultural Center, IL, US.
and Travel

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., US.

Lens on Life: From Bamako to SF, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, US.

2006

SNAP Judgements, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, US.
and Travel

2006

The Arrival, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Biennale of the Canaries, Canary Islands.
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Another World, La Centrale Electrique, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium.

2005

desi(re),Talwar Gallery, New York, NY, US.
Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa, Courtyard Gallery, New York, NY, US.
CorteFusión: Fotografía manipulada de Tijuana y LÁ, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico.

2004

Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany.
and Travel

2005	Hayward Gallery, London, England.
	Pompidou Centre, Paris, France.
2006	Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
	Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007	Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa.

2004

Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, US.
Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art,William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs Mansfield, CT, US.
Prism, 18^th Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US.
African Art, African Voices, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, US.
Priority, Art in General, New York, NY, US.

2003

Looking Both Ways, Museum of African Art, New York, NY, US.
and Travel

2004	Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, US.
	Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, US.
2005	Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
2006	Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, US.

2003

Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, US.
Unnaturally, Contemporary Art Museum, University Of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US and Travel.

2002

Global Address, Fisher Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA, US.
The Anthology of Art, Concept by Jochen Gerz Braunschweig Scool of Art, Germany.
Borderless Terrain, India Habitat Centre, New Dehli, India.
Dermatone, Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA, US.

2001

Phigment, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA, US.
Home and The World, India Center of Art and Culture, New York, NY, US.

2000

Cosmic Dermis, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Imaging the Wunderboard, London Biennale, The Freud Centre, London, England.
NY:ID/Y2K, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY, US.
AR: Contemporary Art and Identity, Baum Gallery, Conway, AR, US.

1999

Body/Language, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, US.
Not On Any Map, The School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery, IL, US.
The Mourning After, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Dia*sperse, Black Paint Studio, Toronto, Canada.

1998

Where I am, Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal.
Urban Encounters, New Museum, New York, NY, US.

1997

Translocations, The Photographers Gallery, London, England.
and Travel

City University, New York, NY, US.

Transforming the Crown, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY, US.
Out of India, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY, US.

1996

National Graduate Photography, American Photography Institute, New York, NY, US.
AIM Benefit, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, US.
Terminals, curated by Connie Samaras, University of California Irvine Gallery, CA, US.

1994

Picturing Asia America, Houston Center for Photography, TX, US.
Beyond the Borders, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, US.

1993

AIM Show, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, US.
Whitney Biennial, Video collaboration with Yong Soon Min, included in Shu Lea Chang's installation, "Those Fluttering Objects of Desire" Whitney Museum, New York, NY, US.

1992

Realms of Glory, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall, England.
Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, collaboration with Yong Soon Min, Exit Art, New York, NY, US.

1991

Artists Engulfed Against War, Art In General, New York, NY, US.
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, US and Travel.

1990

Let the Canvas Come to Life With Dark Faces, Castle Museum, Nottingham, England.
Ecstatic Antibodies, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
and Travel

Chapter Arts, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

1989

Fabled Territories, Leeds City Gallery, England.
and Travel

	Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada.
	Third Havana Biennale, National Museum of Havana, Cuba.

1988

The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England.
and Travel

Gardner Arts, Brighton, England.

1987

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England.

PERFORMANCES

2009

Migratory Paths, Lecture, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, US

2008

New Geographies in Contemporary Art, conference presentation, Flyboy, Harvard University, Boston, MA, US

2007

Two Gurus in Drag, video screening, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, US

2006

ReDo (Allison Knowles), with Faith Wilding, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US

2005

Danço-te, music DVD, a project by Bia Gayotto

2004

X, at SsamzieSpace, Seoul, South Korea

2003

Will **** for Peace, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, at Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2002

Will **** for Peace, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, at Mezzanine Gallery, University of Minneapolis, US

1998

Tress/Pass, outdoors, collab. w/ Y.S. Min, between Paris and Madrid

EDUCATION

1995-97

MFA, Photography, UCLA

1993-94

Critical Studies, Whitney Independent Studies Program, NY

1980-83

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, England

Allan was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and he lives in Los Angeles, California. The artist is currently a professor of Visual Art at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California.