Lewis Watts

Lewis Watts
Lewis Watts
Nationality	United States of America
Education	BA in political science, UC Berkeley; MA in photography and design, University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Photographer, archivist curator

Lewis Watts is an American photographer, archivist curator, visual historian, author, lecturer, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and other institutions for over 40 years. He work has been exhibited at and has collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cité de la Musique (Paris, France), The Berkeley Museum, Autograph London, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA), The Oakland Museum of California, The Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), The Amistad Center for Art and Culture (Hartford, CT), Light Work (Syracuse, NY), The Paul Sack Collection (San Francisco, CA).[1][2][3]

Interests

His work is inspired by his historical and contemporary interests and representation of people in the African diaspora.

2019 –
2017 – Mining the Archive, Rena Bransten Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
2017 – Work from the Collection, Lewis Watts, Amistad Center of Art and Culture, Hartford, Conn.
2015–17 – New Orleans, Photographs by Lewis Watts, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
2016 – FRANCAIS, Photographs by Lewis Watts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1999 – Lifework Exhibit, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
1999 – Photography of Lewis Watts, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA,1999
1999 – Lewis Watts, South to West Oakland, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1998–99 – Urban Foot Prints: The Photography of Lewis Watts, Oakland Museum of California, CA

2017 – Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (new edition), co-author Elizabeth Pepin
2013 – New Orleans Suite, authored with Eric Porter
2006 – Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era, co -authored with Elizabeth Pepin

2016 – Independent Lens (TV series, documentary advisor for 1 episode)
2015 – Dogtown Redemption (Documentary) (advisor)
2014 – Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (Documentary)
1999 – Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco (advisor)

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