American photographer, archivist, curator, art historian, educator (b. 1946)
Lewis Watts (born 1946) is an American photographer, archivist curator, art historian, author, lecturer, and educator. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz (U.C. Santa Cruz).
Career.
Lewis Watts was born in 1946 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has a BA degree in political science, as well as a MA degree in photography and design from University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley). He had taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as other institutions for over 40 years.
His work is inspired by his historical and contemporary interests and representation of people in the African diaspora.
Watts work has been exhibited at and has collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cité de la Musique (Paris, France), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, Louisiana), the Oakland Museum of California, the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), the Amistad Center for Art and Culture (Hartford, Connecticut), Light Work (Syracuse, New York).
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