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Ouattara Watts


Born in 1957 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Lives and works in New York, USA

Exhibitions — Works CV

Ouattara Watts, Untitled, 2021, Mix media on canvas, 210 x 300 cm, Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin


Born in 1957 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Lives and works in New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Résonances, Fondation Paul Rebeyrolle, Eymoutiers, France Magazzino d’Arte Contemporaneo, Roma, Italy

2018
Before Looking at This Work, Listen to It, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Get Ready, La Rotonde, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

2016
New painting, Magazzino, Rome, Italy

2015
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France

2013
Ouattara Watts: The Project Room, FIAF Gallery, New-York, USA

2012
Vertigo, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY

2011
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Galerie Charest-Weinberg, China

2009
Andy Goldsworthy and Ouattara Watts, Hess Art Collection International Contemporary Art at Glen Carlou, Paarl, South Africa

2008
Outlaw, Magazzino d’arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Galeria Leyendeker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Les Canaries, Spain Hess Art Collection, Paarl, South Africa

2007
Ouattara Watts: For Lily, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA

2006
Ouattara Watts: Works on Paper, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA

2004
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Crossing Currents – The Synergy of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Tracy Williams Gallery, New York, USA
Ouattara Watts : Opere Recenti curated by Okwui Enwezor, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2002
Leo Koenig, New York, USA

1999
Ouattara: in Roma, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italie

1998
Ouattara New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA

1996
Ouattara Dark Star, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, USA

1995
Ouattara: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

1994
Ouattara, University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

1993
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France

1992
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA

1990
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Vrej Baghoomian, New York, USA

1989
Marilyn Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1986
Centre Culturel de la Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

Group Exhibitions

2021
Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwanju Biennale, Gwanju, South Korea 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Christie’s, Paris, France

Surface Tension, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New-York, USA

2020
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech, Marocco Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, EAU

2019
Foire internationale d’art contemporain, Paris, France
L’Esprit du large chapitre II, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK
L’Esprit du large, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
Prête-moi ton rêve, exposition panafricaine itinérante (Casablanca, Marocco)

2018
African Metropolis, an Imaginary City, MaXXI, Roma, Italy L’heure rouge, 13th Dakar Biennal, Dakar, Senegal

2017
Afriques Capitales, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France

2016
Réenchantement, Biennale de Dakar, Senegal
Armory show New York City, Magazzino d’art Moderna, Rome, Italy

2014
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Galerie Sitor Senghor, London, UK

2011
Ouattara Watts and Katy Schimert, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, USA

2010
In Dialogue : Four Generations of Painting, curated by Peter Makebish, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, USA

2009
HERD THINNER, curated by David Hunt, Charest-Weinberg Gallery; Miami, USA Armory show New York City, Magazzino d’art Moderna, Rome, Italy

2006
Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael, Kohler Arts Center, WI, USA Realm of the Spirit, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA

2003
Black President - The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA

2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, Moma P.S.1, Long Island City, USA

2001
Gorney Bravin Lee, New York, NY, USA

2000
Transatlantic Dialog - In And Out of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, USA

1997
Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan Chiba Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

1994
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Un Altre Pais, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas Fundacion, Spain La Virreina Expositions, La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelone, Spain

1993
Biennale de Venise, Italy

1992
Other Drums: Visionary Works, Calvin Morris Gallery, New York, USA Haessle, Ouattara, Ray Smith, Navara Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Syncretism: The Art of the 20th Century, The Alternative Museum, New York, USA
Social Sculpture, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
African Explores: New and Renewed Forms in the 20th Century Art, University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

1990
It Must Give Pleasure Erotic Perceptions, Vrej Baghoomian, Gallery, New-York, USA
Images of Death in Contemporary Art, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA

1988
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA

1985
Musée National des Arts Africans et Océaniens, Paris, France

Collections (selection)

Fondacao Sindika Dokolo (Luanda, Angola)
Fondation Antoine de Galbert (Paris, France)
Fondation Dapper (Paris, France)
The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (New Jersey, USA) The Hess Art Collection (Usa, Argentina, South Africa)

The Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth College (New Hampshire, USA) The Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, New York, USA)
The UC Berkeley Museum of Art and Film Archive (California, USA) Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (Washington, USA)

Publications (selection)

2019
«Among Others: Blackness at MoMA», MoMA, dir. Darby

2018
«Before Looking at this Work, Listen to It», Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, catalogue

2010
«Hess Art Collection» by Donald Hess and Myrtha Steiner, Hatje Cantz

2007
Mike Weiss Gallery, USA, catalogue

2004
Hood Museum of Art, «Crossing Currents - The Synergy of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts», catalogue

2003
New Museum, « Black President: Fela Anikulapokuti », catalogue

2002
«Documenta II Platform 5», Hatje Cantz, catalogue