Nasceu em 1951 em Erie, na Pensilvânia (USA). Morreu em Los Angeles, Califórnia, em 2013.
Fotógrafo, escritor e critico. Professor na California Institute of the Arts.
Exposições Individuais (seleção)
2013
This
ain’t China (curated by Bill Jeffries), Simon Fraser University Gallery,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The
Dockers’ Museum (curated by Jürgen Bock), Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal
2012
Californian
Sequences, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Allan
Sekula: Disassembled Movies 1972 - 2012, Akbank Art Center, (cur. Marie
Muracciole), Ali Akay, Istanbul, Turkey
This
ain't China, (cur. Bill Jeffries), Simon Fraser University Gallery Vancouver,
Canada
Black Tide, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
The
Dockers Museum, La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Rennes, France
2011
Polonia
and..., Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
Ship
of Fools, (cur. Kirsten Lloyd), Stills Center for Photography, Edinburgh, UK
Polonia
and Other Fables, (cur. Karen Downey), Belfast Exposed, Ireland
Retrospective
of Allan Sekula's films, Loop Festival, Centre de la Imatge, Palau de la
Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
2010
Ship
of Fools, Extra Muros: Allan Sekula, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Polonia
and Other Fables, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Allan
Sekula: This Ain't China (cur. Monika Szewczyk), e-flux, New York, USA
European
Cross-Curating, station 2, (cur. Jürgen Bock), artist residency and solo show,
La Criée, Centre d'art contemporain, Rennes, France
2009
Allan Sekula. Polonia and Other Fables - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Allan Sekula - Polonia and Other Fables - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Allan Sekula: Waiting for Tear Gas - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Allan Sekula - Edit Nine - Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2008
Galeria Michel Rein, Paris
Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
Le Tube 04 - Allan Sekula - Le Quai, Angers
2006
Allan Sekula, Fish Story Chapter One,
FRAC Bretagne, Maison de l'Etudiant, Université du Havre
2005
Titanic’s Wake, Camera Austria,
Graz, Áustria
Galerie Traversée, Munique, Alemanha
2004
Prayer for the Americans,
galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Secret Formula: Wealth without Workers,
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisboa, Portugal
2003
Performance under Working Conditions
, Generali Foundation, Viena, Áustria
Black Tide/Marea Negra ,
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Mónica, CA, USA
2002
Waiting for Tear Gas , Centrüm
för Fotografi, Stockholm; Camera Áustria, Graz, Autriche
Irrational Exuberance ,
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Mónica, USA
2001
School is a Factory (1978/80),
ERBA, Valence, França
Titanic’s wake, Galerie Michel
Rein, Paris
Titanic’s wake, Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal (cat.)
2000
Titanic’s wake , CCC, Tours,
France; Christopher Grime Gallery, Santa Mónica, CA, USA
Flight Patterns, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Grimes Gallery, Santa Mónica, CA, USA
Dear Bill Gates , Museum
Boymans-van-Beuningen, Roterdão, Holanda
1999
Freeway to China, Open Eye,
Liverpool
Fish Story , Henry art Gallery,
Seattle, USA
1998
Dead Letter Office , Galerie
Michel Rein, Tours, França; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelas, Bélgica
Deep six, Passer au bleu ,
Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la
Dentelles, Calais, França
Dismal Science, Photo Works 1972-1996 (cat.),
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, USA; John Curtin Gallery, Perth, USA;
Kunstverein München, Munique, Alemanha
1997
Dismal Science, Photo Works 1972-1996 (cat.),
Foto Instituut, Roterdão, Holanda; Camera Work, Londres/ daadgalerie, Berlim,
Alemanha; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, USA
1996
Dismal Science, Photo Works 1972-1996 (cat.),
University Galleries, Illinois State university, USA
Middle Passage , Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Roterdão
1995
Fish Story , Witte de With,
Center for Contemporary Art, Roterdão, The Netherlands; Fotografiska Museet in
Moderna Museet, Estocolmo, Suécia;Tramway, Glasgow; Le Channel et Musée des
Beaux-Arts, Calais, França; Santa Mónica Museum of Art, USA
1993
Fish Story , National Museum
for Contemporary Art, Seul, Coreia
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
1991
Aerospace Folktales and Canadian Notes,
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1989
Western Front, Vancouver Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
1988
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Washington, USA
Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
1987
P.S.1, New-York
Sketch for a Geography Lesson,
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Áustria
A Space, Toronto, Canada
LACE, Los Angeles, USA
1986
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1985
San Francisco Camerawork, San Franciso, França
1984
Photography Against the Grain (cat.),
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Alemanha; Werkstatt für Photografie, Berlin, Germany;
Fotorum im Künstlerhaus, Estugarda, Alemanha; Hochschule für Bildende Kunst,
Hamburgo, Alemanha; ohio State University Art Gallery, Columbus, USA
1983
School is a Factory and sketch for a
Geography Lesson, Wallace Gallery, State University of New-York Old
Westbury, USA
Susan Meiselas and Allan Sekula,
Film in the Cities Photo Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
1980
Martha Rosler and Allan Sekula
, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, USA
1979
School Is a Factory, Orange
Coast College, Costa Mesa, USA
1975
Video: Martha Rosler and Allan Sekula,
The Kitchen, Nova Iorque
1974
Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, USA
1973
Socialism Realism: Photo-Text by Fred
Lonidier and Allan Sekula, Gallery A-402, California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
Exposições Colectivas (seleção)
2013
L'oeil
Photographique, Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand,
France
Salon
der Angst, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
The
Secret Sea, Onomichi city museum of art, Onomichi, Japan
Collection,
Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain, Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
MÉCANIQUES DES FLUIDES (NAVIGUER, TRANSPORTER, FILMER),
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Quel travail ?! Manières de faire, Manières de voir,
Centre photographique d'Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France
2012
Critical
Episodes (1957-2011), MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Voices
of the Sea, Musée des Beaux-arts de Calais, Calais, France
Learning
for Life, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
Uchronie,
ou des récits de collection, (cur. Le Bureau), Saline Royale, Arc et Senans,
France
State
of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, (cur. Constance M. Lewallen and Karen
Moss), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Vancouver, British
Columbia
Balea Negra, (cur. Pedro de Llano), Museo de Arte
Contemporeana de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Time,
Place, and the Camera: Photographs at Work, (cur. Christine Frisinghelli), The
Art Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo
Roundtable,
The 9th Gwangju Biennal, (cur. Nancy Adajania), Gwangju, South Korea
Liverpool
Biennial, (cur. Omar Kholeif), Liverpool, UK
Busan
Biennial, (cur. Roger M. Buergel), Busan, South Korea
The
Voyage, or Three Years at Sea, Part IV, (cur. Cate Rimmer), Charles H. Scott
Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British
Columbia
Balea Negra, (cur. Pedro de Llano), Museo de Arte
Contemporeana de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2011
ZZNot
for sale, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
L'énigme
du portrait, Neuflize collection, Musée d'art contemporain de Marseille, France
oceanomania : souvenirs des mers mystérieuses, de l'expédition
à l'aquarium (cur. Mark Dion), Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Angry,
Young and Radical, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1979,
a movement to radical moments (cur. Carles Guerra), La
Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
2010
29° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo
Over and Over Again - Wyspa
Institute of Art, Gdansk
The 6th Seoul International Biennale of Media
Art - Media City Seoul - International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul
Taipei Biennial 2010 - Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Make It New - Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
POVOpeople - Foundation EDP, Electricity Museum, Lisbon
Hinter der Vierten Wand - Fiktive Leben –
Gelebte Fiktionen - Generali
Foundation, Vienna
Malas Calles - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
... in a most dangerous manner - SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA
Años 70. Fotografía y vida cotidiana - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
2009
Identité(s) / Territorialité(s) - FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Liquid Archives – Notes on Relations, Ruptures
and Silences - Platform3, Munich
Huésped. Colección MUSAC en Rosario - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRo), Rosario
Huésped. Colección Musac en el MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires
Les Tubes - Le Quai, Angers
Over and Over Again, 1989-2009 - Centennial Hall, Wroclaw
Tiempo como materia. Colección MACBA.
Nuevas incorporaciones - Museu
d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
2008
Lost Paradise, Zentrum Paul
Klee, Bern, Suíça
Happy Together, an american dream - Centre d’Art Bastille - CAB, Grenoble
DRAWN TOGETHER -
Gruppenausstellung - Galerie Traversée, Munich
EL ARCHIVO UNIVERSAL. La condición del
documento y la utopía fotográfica moderna - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Street Art, Street Life - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY
Translate: The Impossible Collection - Wyspa
Institute of Art, Gdansk
Taipei Biennial 2008 - Taipei Biennial, Taipei
No Room - Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Way Things are - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun
Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels - Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
MATRIX/REDUX - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
Esto no es una exposición - Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte
2007
10th Istanbul Biennial, Istambul, Turquia
L'Europe en devenir, Centre
Culturel Suisse, Paris (cur. Michel Ritter)
Documenta XII, Kassel, Alemanha
Existencias, MUSAC- Museo de
Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Espanha
UN/ Fair Trade, Neue Galerie
Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Áustria (cur. P.
Weibel & G. Holler-Schuster)
The Quiet in The Land , Luang
Prabang, Laos
Collection , Generali
Foundation, Viena, Áustria
For a special place: documents and works from the Generali Foundation ,
Austrian Cultural Forum, Nova Iorque
World Factory (cur. Hou Hanru),
San Francisco Art Institute, USA
In the poem about love, you don't
write the word love , Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen,
Dinamarca
MACBA in Frankfurter Kunstverein
, Frankfurt am Main, Alemanha
Informacion contra informacion
, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Espanha
2006
Los Angeles 1955-1985 , Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris
Full House, Whitney Museum,
Nova Iorque
Concept has never meant horse, Generali
Foundation, Viena, Áustria
Carnets du Sous-Sol , Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
From Mini-FM to hacktivists: A Guide
to Art and Activism , Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Nova
Zelândia
2005
Occupying Space, Generali Foundation
Collection, The Nederlands Fotomuseum, Tent, Wite de With, Roterdão,
Holanda
Die Regierung (The Government) (cur.
Roger M. Buergel & Ruth Noack), Secession, Viena, Áustria
Be what you want but stay where you
are (cur. Roger M. Buergel & Ruth Noack), Witte de With, Roterdão,
Holanda
Critical societies, Badischer
Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Alemanha
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum
Basel, suíça
Kontext der Fotografie, Museum
für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Alemanha
Sharjah Biennial 7 , Emirados
árabes
Facing the Music, REDCAT, Los
Angeles
Statement , galerie Traversée,
Munique, Alemanha
INward OUTward , FLACC (image
forum), Gant, Bélgica
Looking at America, galerie
Hohenlohe & Kalb, Viena, Áustria
Transitions 2005, Biarritz,
França
2004
Situations Construites, Attitudes, Génova, Suíça
How do we want to be governed ?
(cur. Roger M. Buergel & Ruth Noack), Miami Art Central, USA
L’Ombre du temps, galerie
nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Paysages Invisibles, Musée
départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
U-topia , Frac Centre, Orleães,
França
Diaporama 04 , MACBA,
Barcelona, Espanha
Conditions urbaines, galerie
Donzévansaanen, Lausanne, Suíça
Die Universität ist eine Fabrik,
Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, curators: Roger M. Buergel, Ruth Noack,
Lüneburg, Alemanha
2003
Histoires contemporaines, Les 20 ans
des Frac , Frac Rhônes-Alpes, Villeurbanne, França
Witness . Contemporary Artists Document Our Time, Barbican Art, Londres
VigiVisions. Coleccion fotografica do concello de Vigo,
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Espanha
Singuliers voyages, Domaine
départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
The politics of Place , The
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsínquia, Finlândia
Länsmusteet Västernorrland, Härnösand
2002
Fish Story, Dokumenta XI,
Kassel, Alemanha (cat.)
The Politics of Place,
BildMuseet, Umea Universitet, Suécia (cat.); Edsvik konst och Kultur, Solentuna
21ème semaine européenne de l’image.
La petite maison dans l’inconscient, galerie Nei Liicht, Dubelange
stepping in and out. Contemporary
Documentary Photography, Canon photography at the Victoria and albert
museum, Londres
Empire State , Whitney Museum,
Nova Iorque, USA
Sans commune mesure , Centre
national de la photographie, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille Métropole,
Villeneuve d’Ascq, França; Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains,
Tourcoing, França
Regarder la mer. Repenser le monde
, Le Grand café, St-Nazaire, França
Trade - Waren, Wege und Werte im
Welthandel heute, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Roterdão, Holanda
shadow Festival 3, Amesterdão,
Holanda (cat.)
2001
Yokohama 2001, International Triennale
of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japão (cat.)
Antagonismes. Casos d’estudi,
Museu d’Art Contemporain de Barcelone, Barcelona, Espanha
Fin de la classe ouvrière?,
Centre photographique de Cherbourg-Octeville, França
Contemporary moments, MACBA,
Barcelona, Espanha
Trade - Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute , Fotomuseum
Winterthur, Suíça
Open city - street
photographs since 1950, MOMA, Oxford, United
Kingdom; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Espan; Hirshhorm Museum,
Washington, USA
2000
La mer pour sujet (2), Frac Bretagne,
Rennes, França
Made in California , Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Desert and transit , Kunsthalle
zu Kiel, Kiel, Alemanha
Die Regierung/The Government ,
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanôver, Alemanha
Rotterdam Fotobiennal, Roterdão, Holanda
1999
Expander, BlocNotes chez Jousse-Seguin, Paris
Trace: Liverpool Biennal,
Liverpool
1998
Un après-midi d’automne au musée,
Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la
Dentelle, Calais, França
La mer n’est pas la terre , La Criée, Rennes, França
Voyages , Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Valence, França
Port and corridor: work sites in Los
Angeles: Robert Flick and Allan Sekula , the Getty Research Institute,
Los Angeles, USA
Scratches on the surface of things
, Museum Boymans-van-Beunigen, Roterdão Holanda
1997
InSite 97, San Diego/Tijuana, Centro
cultural Tijuana, México
1996
Face à l’histoire, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris
1994
Proposition I, One-Five, Bruxelas,
Bélgica
1992
Wasteland: Landscape from Nowon
, Fotographie Biennale, Roterdão, Holanda
V Fotobienal, Vigo, Espanha
Proof: Los Angeles Art and the
Photograph 1960-1980 , Laguna Art Museum, CA, USA
A Dialogue about Recent American and
European Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Reframing the Family , Artists
Space, Nova Iorque
1990
Critical Realism , Perspektief,
Roterdão, Holanda
Polemical Lanscapes ,
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, USA
1989
If You Lived Here: Home Front,
Dia Art Foundation, Nova Iorque
1988
Signs, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
1987
Vormen Van Documentaire
Photographie in de jaren’80,
GaleriePerspektief, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1984
Artt and Ideology , New Museum
of Contemporary Art, Nova Iorque
Absage an das Einzelbild ,
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Alemanha
Likely Stories, Castelli
Graphics, Nova Iorque
1993
Trade Routes, New Museum of
Contemporary Art, Nova Iorque
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nova Iorque
1979
Social Works, Los Angeles
Institute of Contemporary Art, LA, USA
1977
American Narrative/Story Art 1967-1977,
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, USA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
U.C. Santa Barbara Art Museum, USA
Social Criticism and Art Practice
, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1976
New American Filmmakers series:
Connel, Sekula and Torres, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nova Iorque
1975
Autogeography, Whitney Museum
Downtown Branch, Nova Iorque
Not Photography, Fine Arts
Building, Nova Iorque
Southland Video Anthology ,
Long Beach Museum of Art, USA
Coleções
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria
Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam,
Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Athens, Greece
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA
Pompidou
Center, Paris
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art,
La Jolla, CA
San
Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Whitney
Museum, New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
ARCO Foundation, Madrid,
Spain
Centro de
Estudos Fotograficos, Vigo, Spain
Folkwang
Museum, Essen, Germany
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain,
Paris
Getty Research Institute, Resource
Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Museé des
Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Castilla y
León, Spain