biography / bibliography
SAMUEL FOSSO
Born in 1962, Cameroon
Lives and works in Bangui, Central African Republic
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Extraspazio, Rome
2004
Samuel Fosso, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica/Calcografia, Rome
2003
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1999
Galerie Maï Ollivier, Paris
1997
Samuel Fosso: Photographs, Greengrassi, London
1996
Galerie du Theatre, Gap, Hautes Alpes, France
1995
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, curated by Leesa Fanning
2007
Carrying On, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
2006
Masquerade: Representation and Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
The Whole World is Rotten, The Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2005
Recent Acquisitions, International Center of Photography, New York
New Acquistions, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Djanology Art Gallery, Lake Side Arts Center University Park, Nottingham, UK
Africa Screams: The Evil and the Uncanny in Cinema and Art, Iwalewa House, Bayreuth, Traveling to:
Kunsthalle, Vienna
City Museum, Munich, Germany
Africa Remix, curated by JH Martin and S. Njami, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Travelling to:
Centre Pompidou
Hayward, London
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2004-05
Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, MO
2004
Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum Harlem, New York On Side, Centro de Artes Visuais and the Instituto das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
Samuel Fosso, curated by Maria Francesca Bonetti and Guido Schlinkert,
Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Rome, Traveling to:
Roma, Calcografia
Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2003
Portraiture (Every Picture Tells A Story), Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Photo Espana 2003, curated by Oliva María Rubio, Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
2002
Xposeptember Fotofestival, Moderna Museet c/o Enkehuset, Stockholm, Suède.
6th International Photography Gathering, Aleppo, Syria
2001-2002
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945- 1994, curated by Okwui Enwezor, traveling to:
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
P.S. 1 Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2001
Africa Inside, Tampere, Findland
Africa, The artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
3é Rencontre de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali.
2000
Exposition International d’Art Contemporain Africain, Winner First Prize in Photography, DAK’ART, Dakar, Sénégal
Africa Inside, Noordelicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
1999
Africa by Africa: A Photographic View, Barbican Gallery, London
L’Afrique par elle même, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1997
Studio Photo, 50 ans des Magasins Tati, Paris, France
L’Abattoir, Châlon sur Saône, France
Retrats de l’anima, Centre Cultural de la Fundacio “La Caixa”, Spain
Lumière Noire, Château de Tanlay, France
1996
In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York
Arthotèque de Grenoble, France
Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes, France
1995
Festival Africa 95, Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
FNAC Forum, Paris, France
1994
Self Portraits, Premières Rencontres de Bamako, Mali.
AWARDS
2000
Winner First Prize in Photography, DAK’ART, Dakar, Sénégal
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Arco Collection, Madrid, Spain
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, NJ
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS