biography of Allan SEKULA (1951-2013)
Personal data
Birth : 1951 - Erie Pennsylvania, United States
Death : 2013
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United States
Address
Los Angeles CA California, United StatesRepresentatives
Christopher Grimes Gallery – 916 Colorado Avenue – Santa Monica CA, United States
Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
Professional data
Grants
1997
1997 : Getty Scholar- Getty Institute for The History of Artand the Humanities – New York NY, United States
1993
1993 : Getty Scholar- Getty Institute for The History of Artand the Humanities – New York NY, United States
1986
1986 : John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award – New York NY, United States
Work
Categorie and medium
Sculpture-Volume : Installation 
Photography : Cibachrome print 
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Subject
actualityspace/environment
portrait
Works
| Waiting for Tear Gas | |
| Date of creation : 2000 Medium : Installation Technical data : Slide projection;81 transparencies projected continuously at 13-second intervals Size : 72 x 108 inch | |
| Dear Bill Gates | |
| Date of creation : 1999 Edition n° : 1 Medium : Photograph in colors Technical data : Type written letter Size : 18 x 103 inch Number of elements : 5 | |
| The Cabinet of Doctor Lumbroso, Turin | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph Size : 66 x 173 cm | |
| 31 December 1999 | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors Technical data : Diptych Size : 38 x 87 inch | |
| Assemblage made by coal dock workers | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors Size : 29 x 40 inch | |
| Shipwreck and Worker, Istanbul | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors Size : 46 x 60 inch | |
| TITANIC's wake | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors | |
| Casual Dockworkers'dispatch, Seattle | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors Technical data : Diptych Size : 28 x 68 inch | |
| Regular dockworkers'dispatch board, Seattle | |
| Date of creation : 1998-2000 Medium : Photograph in colors Size : 40 x 60 inch | |
| Fish Story | |
| Date of creation : 1995 Medium : Photograph | |
| Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes | |
| Date of creation : 1985 Medium : Photograph Technical data : 18 sets of grouped color and black and white photographs, in five frame sizes. Three text panels 48" x 60" each. Spiral-bound text booklet, 15 pages. Wooden reading table, banker's lamp and two chairs. | |
| Aerospace Folktales | |
| Date of creation : 1973 Medium : Installation Technical data : 23 pairs of black and white photographs, framed 22" x 28" each. Three audiotape voice recordings, unsynchronized, with individual cassette players and speakers. Duration: 20 minutes each. Three red director's chairs and three potted palms. | |
| Meditations on a Triptych | |
| Date of creation : 1973 Medium : Photograph Technical data : Set of 3 color photographs, 11" x 11" each, framed at 24" x 54". Spiral-bound text booklet, 15 pages. Steel office reading table and chair. Overhead suspended light bulb. | |
| Kaela Economou, Beaten by the Seattle Police, 2 December 1999 | |
| Date of creation : 02/12/1999 Medium : Photograph in colors Size : 29 x 40 inch | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2004
Galeria Filomena Soares – Lisbon, Portugal
05/13/2004 – 06/26/2004
2003
Black tide/ Marea Negra/ deep six/ Passer au bleu
Christopher Grimes Gallery – Santa Monica CA, United States
06/07/2003 – 07/12/2003
Performance under working conditions
Generali Foundation – Vienna, Austria
05/16/2003 – 08/17/2003
2002
Christopher Grimes Gallery – Santa Monica CA, United States
2002
2001
Galerie Michel Rein – Paris, France
11/10/2001 – 01/12/2002
Centro Cultural de Bélem – Lisbon, Portugal
2001
2000
Christopher Grimes Gallery – Santa Monica CA, United States
12/02/2000 – 01/06/2001
CCC Centre de Création Contemporaine – Tours, France
2000
Galerie Michel Rein – Paris, France
2000
1999
Henry Art Gallery – Seattle WA, United States
1999
1998
Palais des Beaux-Arts – Brussels, Belgium
1998
Dismal Science
University Galleries Illinois State University – Normal IL, United States
1998
Dismal Science
DAAD Galerie – Berlin, Germany
1998
Galerie Michel Rein – Paris, France
1998
1997
Dismal Science
Nederlands Foto Instituut – Rotterdam, Netherlands
12/14/1997 – 01/25/1998
1996
Middle Passage
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam, Netherlands
12/21/1996 – 02/23/1997
1995
Fish Story
Witte de With – Rotterdam, Netherlands
1995
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2007
FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 56 bis rue du rempart – Tours, France
ArtBrussels – Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/20/2007 – 04/23/2007
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
2006
Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Galeria Filomena Soares – Rua da Manutenção, 80 – Lisbon, Portugal
2004
FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
2003
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Christopher Grimes Gallery – 916 Colorado Avenue – Santa Monica CA, United States
Art Cologne, n° 37
Cologne, Germany
10/29/2003 – 11/02/2003
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
FIAC, n°30
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/09/2003 – 10/13/2003
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
2002
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Christopher Grimes Gallery – 916 Colorado Avenue – Santa Monica CA, United States
FIAC, n°29
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/24/2002 – 10/28/2002
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein – 42 Rue de Turenne – Paris, France
2001
Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Christopher Grimes Gallery – 916 Colorado Avenue – Santa Monica CA, United States
Group exhibitions
2004
De leur temps, collections privées Françaises
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Tourcoing, France
10/06/2004 – 12/06/2004
U-topia, ¿uvres photographiques
FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Centre – Orleans, France
05/28/2004 – 07/30/2004
2003
Catastrofi Minime
MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro – Nuoro, Italy
12/05/2003 – 02/29/2004
Singuliers Voyages
Domaine Départemental de Chamarande – Chamarande, France
04/26/2003 – 10/05/2003
2002
The Politics of Place
Bildmuseet – Umeå University – Umeå, Sweden
2002
Sans commune mesure
Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
09/22/2002 – 01/19/2003
Repenser la mer, Repenser le monde
Le Grand Café – Saint-Nazaire, France
06/30/2002 – 10/13/2002
Documenta XI
Kunsthalle Fridericianum – Kassel, Germany
06/08/2002 – 09/15/2002
Ma maison dans ta rue
FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art contemporain Basse-Normandie – Caen, France
03/08/2002 – 04/14/2002
2001
Mega Wave : Towards a New Synthesis – Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art
Yokohama, Japan
09/02/2001 – 11/11/2001
Open City: Street Photographs since 1950
MOMA Museum of Modern Art – Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
05/06/2001 – 07/15/2001
2000
Desert & Transit
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig – Leipzig, Germany
11/16/2000 – 01/21/2000
Flight Patterns
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza The Geffen Contemporary – Los Angeles CA, United States
11/12/2000 – 02/11/2001
Desert & Transit
Kunsthalle Zu Kiel – Christian-Albrechts-Universität – Kiel, Germany
07/16/2000 – 09/10/2000
FBR Foto Biënnale Rotterdam / Rotterdam Photo Biennial
Nederlands Foto Instituut – Rotterdam, Netherlands
04/01/2000 – 05/07/2000
Seascape
Christopher Grimes Gallery – Santa Monica CA, United States
2000
1999
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
09/24/1999 – 11/07/1999
1998
Scratches on the surface of things
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam, Netherlands
1998
Port and Corridor : Working Sites in Los Angeles
J. Paul Getty Museum – New York NY, United States
08/15/1998 – 10/18/1998
1996
Face à l’Histoire 1933-1996
MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
12/19/1996 – 04/07/1997
1993
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennnial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
1993
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Periodicals
2002
CAMPBELL Clayton – Allan Sekula
in: Flash Art n° 223 p. 104 vol. 34
Milan MI, Italy
03/2002-04/2002
MÜLLER Silke – Documenta 11
in: Art das Kunstmagazin p. 14
Hamburg, Germany
06/2002
STEINER Barbara – Documenta XI
in: Flash Art n° 225 p. 104 vol. 34
Milan MI, Italy
07/2002-09/2002
STECH Fabian – La documenta 11
in: Paris Photo Magazine International n° 22 p. 68
Paris, France
09/2002-10/2002
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