Lewis Watts
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, The Berkeley Museum, Autograph London, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Oakland Museum of California, The Neuberger Museum of Art, The Amistad Center for Art and Culture, Light Work, The Paul Sack Collection.Interests
His work is inspired by his historical and contemporary interests and representation of people in the African diaspora.Career
Exhibitions
- 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
Publications
- 2017 – Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era, 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
Filmography
- 2016 – Independent Lens
- 2015 – Dogtown Redemption
- 2014 – Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
- 1999 – Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco
