Né en 1923 à Bamako, Mali
Décédé en 2001 à Paris
EXPOSITIONS (sélection)
2006
- About Africa I, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, March 16-April 22, 2006.
- Seydou Keïta: The Image King of Africa, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, January 28-March 4, 2006. (solo)
- Seydou Keïta, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, February 25-April 11, 2006. (solo)
2005
- African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
- Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY, February 3-May 29, 2005.
- Contact: 9th Annual Toronto Photography Festival, Alliance Francaise Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 1-June 30, 2005.
- Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
- Click, GoodmanGallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Faces in the Crowd: Images of Modern Life from Manet to today
- Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
- Corporate Culture, The Fleming Collection, London, UK
2004 - 2005
- Keïta and Malick Sidibé, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO, September 17, 2004-January 2005.
- Engaging the Camera: African Women, Portraits, and Photographs of Hector Acebes, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, October 28, 2004-February 21, 2005.
- 5th Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako 2003: Rites Sacrés/Rites Profanes, Maison Africaine de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali, October 20-November 20, 2003.
- Traveled to: Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, December 9, 2004-February 22, 2005.
2004
- Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY, November 3-December 17, 2004.
- Fifty One Celebrates Four Years, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, June 12-August 1, 2004.
- La Collection d’Art Contemporain d’Agnès B., Les Abbattoirs Toulouse, France, April 9-June 14, 2004.
- Joy of Life – Two Photographers from Africa
- Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan February 15-April 11, 2004.
- Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso
- Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
- AIM 24 :Portraits and Places, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
- Portraits of African Women, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Alanta, GA
2003 - 2004
- Go Johnny Go! The Electric Guitar – Art and Myth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2003-March 7, 2004.
- Village Global: Années 60, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, October 2, 2003-January 18, 2004.
- Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, February 19-May 23, 2004.
2003
- Les Ateliers des Désirs, Centre Culturel Francais Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2003.
- Patchworking, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germeny, September 6-October 18, 2003.
- Fables de l’Identité: Oeuvres de la Collection NSM Vie/ABN AMRO, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France, June 18-August 25, 2003.
- Mali Portraits From the 50s by Seydou Keïta
- The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, January-March 14, 2003. (solo)
- Mali Portraits by Seydou Keïta, The William Bennington Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (solo)
2002 - 2003
- Alter Ego: Anthropologies Involontaires, Mundaneum Museum, Mons, Belgium, June 20-October 31, 2002.
- Traveled to: Hotel de Sully, Paris, France, January 17-March 23, 2003.
- Childhood – Collection of the National Fund of Modern Art, Paris, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, Fosso, Moderna Museet c/o Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden, September 14-October 6, 2002.
- Traveled to: Norskt Fotomuseum, Oslo, Norway, March-April, 2003.
- Seydou Keïta: Portraits, Grany Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
2002
- Face Time, Atlanta Art Center, Atlanta, GA
- Portraits of Pride – Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé and Samuel Fosso, Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm
- The Short Century: Liberation and Independence Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
- You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001
- You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, The Fogg Art Museum, XVI International Video and Multimedia Arts Festival, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
- Seydou Keïta, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
- Seydou Keïta: Portraits from Mali, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (solo)
- Flash Afrique: Fotografie aus Westafrika, Kunsthalle, Wien, Germany, September 7-November 11, 2001.
2000
- Azaglo and Ojeikere, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Voilà, Le Monde Dans La Tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, June 15-October 29, 2000.
- Africa: Past-Present: Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keita, P.K. Apagya, Depara, CA
1999 - 2000
- Kunst-Welten im Dialog von Gauguin zur Globalen
- Gegenwart/Glabal Art-Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig Koln,
- Cologne, Germany, November 5, 1999-March 19, 2000.
1999
- L’Afrique Independente, Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC.
- PhotoEspana 99, Madrid, Spain.
1998
- Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil, 1998.
- Moscou 2nd Biennal for Photography, Moscow, Russia, 1998.
1997
- Trade Routes: History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Seydou Keïta: Photographs from Mali, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, October 18-November 1, 1997. Traveled to: Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, July 10-August 16, 1997. (solo)
1996
- In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, May 24-September 29, 1996.
- Seydou Keïta, photographer: Portraits from Bamako, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1995
- Seydou Keïta, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)
- Big City Artists from Africa, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.
- Seydou Keïta & Malik Sidibé, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 20-October 21, 1995.
- Counter Cultures: Photography and Image Formation in a Multicultural Society, The Netherlands Photography Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Multiple Exposure – The Group Portrait in Photography, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, 1995.
- Traveled to: Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
1994
- Premières Rencontres de la Photographie de Bamako, Bamako, Mali, 1994.
- Seydou Keïta, Ginza Shiseido Art Space, Tokyo, Japan. (solo)
- Seydou Keïta: Portraits de 1949 à 1964, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
1993
- 24th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France. Images of Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark.