T/Th 5-6, W 12-1 & 4-5
Lewis deSoto, born 1954, in Southern California is known for his photographs, installations, sculpture and public art that engages cosmological questions, notions of self, and plays with inherent phenomena. He was educated at UC Riverside and Claremont Graduate University. He taught at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. He has served as the Director of Graduate Studies at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA., and as is currently a Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.
His work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as well as many private collections.
His exhibition, “Paranirvana” is currently travelling in the United States, organized by Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. by Dan Mills, the Director of the Samek Art Center. It will go to eight institutions through 2004. A version of the same piece is part of “Invisible Thread,” a multi-part exhibition about Buddhism and American culture in the New York Metropolitan area in the fall of 2003.
Education
- M.F.A. Claremont Graduate University
- B.A. University of California, Riverside
