Seydou Keïta
Photographer
Born in Bamako 1921
died in Paris 2001
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Solo exhibitions
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2020
February 22nd, 2020 – March 31st, 2020
“Untitled: Seydou Keïta, MACAAL” | 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Throughout the Medina
Marrakech, Morocco
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2018 – 2019
August 11th, 2018 – January 27th, 2019
Rio do Janeiro, Brazil
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2018
April 14th, 2018 – July 29th, 2018
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2018
April 6th, 2018 – June 20th, 2018
“Seydou Keïta - Bamako Portraits” | FOAM
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2017
November 6th, 2017 – December 22nd, 2017
3, rue du cloître Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris, France
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2016 – 2017
November 17th, 2016 – January 21st, 2017
Charles Decoster, Brussels
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2016
June 22nd, 2016 – September 1st, 2016
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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2016
March 31st, 2016 – July 11th, 2016
Paris, France
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2013
February 27th, 2013 – May 5th, 2013
“Seydou Keïta, Photographs from The Jean Pigozzi Collection” | The Multimedia Art Museum
Moscow, Russia
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2011
April 29th, 2011 – June 11th, 2011
Antwerp, Belgium
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2010
June 10th, 2010 – July 11th, 2010
“Seydou Keïta: Beautiful Like That” | Jack Bell Gallery
London, England, UK
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2008 – 2009
April 12th, 2008 – April 12th, 2009
London, England, UK
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2007
March 8th, 2007 – May 13th, 2007
“Seydou Keita: Portraits from Mali” | MOCA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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2006
October 5th, 2006 – November 30th, 2006
San Francisco, California, USA
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2006
September 20th, 2006 – October 29th, 2006
Bologna, Italy
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2006
January 28th, 2006 – March 4th, 2006
“Seydou Keïta: The Image King of Africa” | Sean Kelly Gallery
New York, USA
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2006
Dublin, Ireland
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2003
“Mali Portraits by Seydou Keïta” | The William Bennington Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut, USA
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2002 – 2003
“Seydou Keïta: Portraits” | Grant Selwyn Fine Art
Beverly Hills, California, USA
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2001
September 7th, 2001 – November 11th, 2001
Vienna, Austria
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2001
May 3rd, 2001 – August 6th, 2001
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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2001
January, 2001 – March, 2001
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
Rome, Italy
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1998 – 1999
September 22nd, 1998 – January 3rd, 1999
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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1998
“Seydou Keïta” | Institut Français de Thessalonique
Thessaloniki, Greece
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1998
“Seydou Keïta” | Institut Français D’Athènes
Athens, Greece
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1997
October 18th, 1997 – November 1st, 1997
New York, USA
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1997
“Seydou Keïta” | Galerie DV
San Sebastian, Spain
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1997
“Seydou Keïta” | Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
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1996
March 27th, 1996 – July 28th, 1996
“Seydou Keïta, Photographer: Portraits from Bamako, Mali (1950-1960)” | National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institut
Washington D.C., USA
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1995
“Seydou Keïta” | Helsingin Taidehalli Helsingfors Konsthall
Helsinki, Finland.
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1995
“Seydou Keïta” | Espace Fernand Léger
Montreuil, France
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1995
“Seydou Keïta” | Fruit Market Gallery
Edimburgh, England, UK
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1995
“Self Evident” | The Ikon Gallery
Birmingham, England, UK
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1994
September 28th, 1994 – November 27th, 1994
Paris, France
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1994 – 1995
“Black Movie” | Musée d’Art et d'Histoire
La Chaux de Fonds, Suisse – Saint Gervais, Suisse – Genève, Suisse
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1994
“Seydou Keïta” | Ginza art’s space - Shiseido
Tokyo, Japan
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Collective exhibitions
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2020 – 2021
September 9th, 2020 – January 3rd, 2021
Raleigh (NC), USA
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2019 – 2020
November 23rd, 2019 – February 9th, 2020
“Fashioning black identity: Africa and the African diaspora” | Monash Gallery of Art
Melbourne, Australia
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2019
September 11th, 2019 – December 8th, 2019
“The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture” | Ryerson Image Center
Toronto, Canada
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2019
January 30th, 2019 – February 3rd, 2019
Geneva, Switzerland
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2017 – 2018
October 14th, 2017 – January 7th, 2018
“Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design” | High Museum of Art
Atlanta, USA
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2017
July 6th, 2017 – November 5th, 2017
Grand Arles Express, France
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2017
June 27th, 2017 – September 11th, 2017
Milan, Italy
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2017
April 26th, 2017 – September 4th, 2017
Paris, France
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2017
April 20th, 2017 – September 24th, 2017
“Autophoto, de 1900 à nos jours” | Fondation Cartier
Paris, France
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2017
April 14th, 2017 – July 30th, 2017
“The Islamic Treasures of Africa, From Timbuktu to Zanzibar” | Arab World Institute
Paris, France
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2016 – 2017
October 1st, 2016 – January 15th, 2017
“Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design” | Kunsthal Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2016
March 23rd, 2016 – August 28th, 2016
“Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design” | CCCB
Barcelona, Spain
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2015 – 2016
October 30th, 2015 – February 21st, 2016
“Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design” | Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
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2015 – 2016
October 17th, 2015 – January 24th, 2016
“Après Eden, la collection Walther” | La Maison Rouge
Paris, France
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2015 – 2016
August 31st, 2015 – January 3rd, 2016
“In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa” | Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, USA
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2015
May 30th, 2015 – July 18th, 2015
Antwerp, Belgium
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2015
March 14th, 2015 – September 13th, 2015
“Making Africa, A Continent of Contemporary Design” | Vitra Design Museum
Weil am Rhein, Germany
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2014 – 2015
November 20th, 2014 – March 15th, 2015
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2014 – 2015
October 21st, 2014 – January 8th, 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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2013 – 2014
December 12th, 2013 – February 15th, 2014
“Keïta, Ojeikere, Sidibé” | 11 Columbia
Monaco
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2013
October 4th, 2013 – December 7th, 2013
Paris, France
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2013 – 2014
September 14th, 2013 – January 5th, 2014
“WHITE : Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film” | Nederlands Fotomuseum
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2013
January 23rd, 2013 – April 14th, 2013
SUNY New Paltz, New York, USA
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2012
January 29th, 2012 – May 6th, 2012
“Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design” | Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem
Arnhem, Netherlands
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2012
January 6th, 2012 – March 10th, 2012
“August Sander and Seydou Keïta, Portraiture and Social Identity” | Walther Collection Project Space
New York, USA
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2011
November 8th, 2011 – December 29th, 2011
“On aime la photographie!” | galerie du jour - agnès b.
Paris, France
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2010
October 6th, 2010 – October 18th, 2010
Paris, France
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2007 – 2008
October 6th, 2007 – February 3rd, 2008
Turin, Italy
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2006 – 2007
October 12th, 2006 – February 18th, 2007
Bilbao, Spain
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2006
May 29th, 2006 – July 31st, 2006
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2006
March 17th, 2006 – April 22nd, 2006
Antwerp, Belgium
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2005
July 16th, 2005 – September 4th, 2005
“Arts of Africa” | Grimaldi Forum
Monaco
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2005
July 9th, 2005 – September 4th, 2005
Niigata, Japan
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2005
June 7th, 2005 – July 30th, 2005
Paris, France
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2005
April 23rd, 2005 – May 15th, 2005
Shizuoka, Japan
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2005
February 12th, 2005 – June 19th, 2005
“African Art, African Voices : Long Steps Never Broke a Back” | Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford - USA
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2005
February 5th, 2005 – March 21st, 2005
“A hundred years of children” | The Bunkamura Museum of Art
Tokyo, Japan
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2005
January 29th, 2005 – June 5th, 2005
“African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection” | Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Houston, Texas, USA
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2004 – 2005
December 9th, 2004 – February 22nd, 2005
“African Photography Encounters in Bamako – Sacred and profane rites” | Centro de la Imagen
Mexico City, Mexico
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2004 – 2005
December 3rd, 2004 – March 6th, 2005
“Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today” | Whitechapel Gallery
London, England, UK
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2004 – 2005
October 2nd, 2004 – January 2nd, 2005
“African Art, African Voices : Long Steps Never Broke a Back” | Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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2004 – 2005
September 18th, 2004 – January 8th, 2005
“Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé” | The Sheldon Art Galleries
St Louis, Missouri, USA
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2004
April 9th, 2004 – June 13th, 2004
Toulouse, France
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2003 – 2004
November 14th, 2003 – January 10th, 2004
“Nous remontons de la «cale» toutes les photographies!” | galerie du jour - agnès b.
Paris, France
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2003 – 2004
October 24th, 2003 – March 7th, 2004
Vienna, Austria
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2003 – 2004
October 2nd, 2003 – January 18th, 2004
Montreal, Canada
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2003
July 22nd, 2003 – September 20th, 2003
“Alter Ego” | Centre de Cultura « Sa Nostra »
Palma, Italy
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2003
May 7th, 2003 – June 18th, 2003
“Les ateliers des désirs – Philip Kwame Apagya, Seydou Keïta & Malick Sidibé” | Centre Culturel Français Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
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2003
March 30th, 2003 – May 18th, 2003
“Vestafrikansk portrettfotografi” | Norsk museum for fotografi - Preus fotomuseum
Horten, Norway
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2003
March 5th, 2003 – June 8th, 2003
London, England, UK
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2003
February 26th, 2003 – June 1st, 2003
Lausanne, Switzerland
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2003
January 17th, 2003 – March 23rd, 2003
“Alter Ego” | Hôtel de Sully
Paris, France
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2002
June 20th, 2002 – October 31st, 2002
“Alter Ego” | Mundaneum Museum
Mons, Belgium
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2002
February 10th, 2002 – May 5th, 2002
“The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994” | MoMA PS1
Long Island City, New York, USA
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2002
February 9th, 2002 – May 5th, 2002
Los Angeles, California, USA
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2002
February 7th, 2002 – May 19th, 2002
“African Art, African Voices : Long Steps Never Broke a Back” | Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, USA
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2001
September 8th, 2001 – December 30th, 2001
“The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994” | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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2001 – 2003
September 1st, 2001 – May 25th, 2003
“You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé” | Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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2001
February 26th, 2001 – June 27th, 2001
Rome, Italy
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2001
February 15th, 2001 – April 22nd, 2001
“The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994” | Museum Villa Stuck
Munich, Germany
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2001
January 20th, 2001 – February 24th, 2001
Paris, France
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2001 – 2002
“Snap Me One! Studiofotografen in Afrika” | Tropenmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2000
October 20th, 2000 – November 25th, 2000
Antwerp, Belgique
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2000
September 23rd, 2000 – November 22nd, 2000
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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2000
June 15th, 2000 – October 29th, 2000
“Voilà. Le Monde dans la Tête” | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris, France
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2000
“Porträt Afrika” | Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, Germany
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1999
April 24th, 1999 – May 15th, 1999
“Seydou Keïta / Malick Sidibé” | galerie du jour - agnès b.
Paris, France
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1999
January 24th, 1999 – April 5th, 1999
“Snap Me One! Studiofotografen in Afrika” | City Museum Abteiberg
Mönchengladbach, Germany
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1999
“Snap Me One! Studiofotografen in Afrika” | Iwalewa-Haus
Bayreuth, Germany
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1998 – 1999
September 23rd, 1998 – January 10th, 1999
“Snap Me One! Studiofotografen in Afrika” | Stadtmuseum
Munich, Germany
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1998
March 12th, 1998 – April 4th, 1998
“Les 50 ans de Tati” | Musées des arts Décoratifs
Paris, France
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1998
March 6th, 1998 – April 26th, 1998
“ALBUM. A selection from the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain” | Fundació Joan Miró
Barcelona, Spain
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1998
“Kunstwelten im Dialog” | Museum Ludwig
Köln, Germany
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1997
June 5th, 1997 – November 2nd, 1997
Paris, France
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1996
November 1st, 1996 – December 29th, 1996
Mois de la photo, Paris, France
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1996
May 23rd, 1996 – September 21st, 1996
“In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present” | Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA
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1996
January 13th, 1996 – March 10th, 1996
“Multiple Exposure – The group portrait in photography” | Oakville Galleries
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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1995
November 15th, 1995 – December 31st, 1995
“Counter Cultures: photography and image formation in a multicultural society” | Nederlands Foto Instituut
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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1995
September 21st, 1995 – November 5th, 1995
London, England, UK
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1995
September 1st, 1995 – October 29th, 1995
“Multiple Exposure – The group portrait in photography” | Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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1995
May 7th, 1995 – June 25th, 1995
“Multiple Exposure – The group portrait in photography” | The Bruce Museum
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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1995
“Rimes et Regards” | Espace Alain Afflelou
Paris, France
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1994
“Palais de l’UNESCO”
Paris, France
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1991
May 11th, 1991 – September 18th, 1991
“Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art” | The Center for African Arts & New Museum for Contemporary Art
New York, USA
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Other appearances
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2017
June 3rd, 2017 – September 30th, 2017
Brittany, France
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2013
April 26th, 2013 – April 28th, 2013
“Paris Photo Los Angeles” | Paramount Pictures Studios
Los Angeles, California, USA
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2011
March 31st, 2011 – April 3rd, 2011
Paris, France
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2003
October 21st, 2003 – November 20th, 2003
“5ème Biennale Africaine de la Photographie” | Rencontres de Bamako
Bamako, Mali
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2000
May 26th, 2000 – July 30th, 2000
Sydney, Australia
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1999
June 16th, 1999 – July 31st, 1999
“PHotoEspaña 99 International Photography Festival” | Real Jardín Botánico
Madrid, Spain
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1998
October 3rd, 1998 – December 3rd, 1998
“Cultural Anthropophagy: The 24th Bienal de São Paulo [Um e/entre Outro/s]” | 24ª Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
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1998
July 1st, 1998 – July 31st, 1998
“1ère Biennale du Mois de la photo et de l’image numérique et du film au Liban” | La Revue du Liban
Beirut, Lebanon
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1998
“Le Deuxieme Mois International de la Photographie à Moscou” | Photobiennale 1998
Moscow, Russia
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1997
San Francisco, California, USA
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1997
“Seydou Keïta” | Galerie DV / ARCO
Madrid, Spain
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1997 – 1998
Paris, France
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1997
“Retrats de l’Anima. Fotografia Africana” | Fundacio « la Caixa »
Madrid, Spain
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1996
“Fotofest” | Maison de la Culture de Frontenac
Montréal, Canada
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1996
Minnesota, USA
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1996
“Africaines” | 1er Festival de la photographie des 3 continents
Nantes, France
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1995
“Festival « Jazz et Musiques Métisses »” | Musée d’Angoulême
Angoulême, France
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1994
“1ère Biennale Africaine de la Photographie” | Rencontres de Bamako
Bamako, Mali
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1993
“Troisièmes Rencontres Photographiques de Normandie”
Rouen, France
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1993
“Images of Africa” | Festival
Copenhagen, Denmark
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1993
“Rencontres Internationales de la photographie – Seydou Keïta (projection)” | Théâtre Antique
Arles, France
