OUATTARA WATTS
Born 1957, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1984 L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Vertigo, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY
2011
Hong Kong International Art Fair, Charest-Weinberg
2009/2010
Hess Art Collection, International Contemporary Art at Glen Carlou, Paarl, South Africa
2008/2009
Outlaw, Magazzino d’arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Galeria Leyendeker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canay Island, Spain
Hess Art Collection, Paarl, South Africa
2007
Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Ouattara Watts: Works on Paper, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2004
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Crossing Currents – The Synergy of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts, Maggazino d.Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2002
Leo Koenig, New York, NY
1999
Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
1998
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
1996
The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
1995
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1994
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1993
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France
1992
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Vrej Baghoomian, New York, NY
1989
Marilyn Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Centre Culturel de la Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Ouattara Watts and Katy Schimert, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY
2009
HERD THINNER, curated by David Hunt, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Realm of the Spirit, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
2003
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennale, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2001
Gorney Bravin Lee, New York, NY
1997
Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
Chiba Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1994
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Un Altre Pais, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas Fundacion, Spain
La Virreina Expositions, La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Spain
1993
Venice Biennale, Italy
1992
Other Drums: Visionary Works, Calvin Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Haessle, Ouattara, Ray Smith, Navara Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Syncretism: The Art of the 20th Century, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Social Sculpture, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
African Explores: New and Renewed Forms in the 20th Century Art, travelling exhibition: University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Dallas; St.Louis Art Museum, MO; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C., The Center of Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; Antoni Tapies Fondacion, Barcelona, Spain; Espace Lyonnais d.Art Contemporain, Lyons, France; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1990
It Must Give Pleasure Erotic Perceptions, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, NYC
Images of Death in Contemporary Art, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
1988
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Exhibition
1986
Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris, France
1985
Musée National des Arts Africans et Océaniens, Paris, France