OUATTARA WATTS

Born in the Ivory Coast, 1957
Lives and works in New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg
2004 Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York, Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
2003 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2002 Leo Koenig, New York
1999 Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome
1998 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
1996 The Kemper Museum, Kansas City
1995 Gagosian Gallery, New York
1994 University Art Museum, Berkeley
1993 Galerie Boulakia, Paris
1992 Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
1990 Galerie Boulakia, Paris
Akira Ikeda Gallery,Nagoya, Japan
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
1989 Marilyn Butler Gallery, Los Angeles
Vrej Baghoomian, New York
1986 Centre Culturel de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 “Crossing Currents, The Synergy of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts,” Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Whitney Museum Biennial, New York
"The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994,”
PS.1 Contemporary Art Center,Long Island City
2001 Gorney Bravin & Lee, New York
1998 Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan; Kurashiki Art City Museum, Japan; Museum
Atorion, Akita, Japan
1997 Setagaya Art Museum, Tokio, Japan
Chiba Museum of Art,Chiba, Japan
1995 “Group Exhibition,” Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
“Un Altre Pais,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas Fundacion "La Caixa,” Palma de Mallorca, La Virreina Expositiones, Barcelona
1994 Museum of Contempory African Art, New York
1993 Venice Biennale, Italy
1992 “Other Drums: Visionry Works,” Cavin Morris Gallery, New York "Haessle, Ouattara, Ray Smith,” Navara Gallery, New York
1991 “Syncretism: The Art of the XX Century,” The Alternative Museum, New York
“Social Sculpture,” Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
“African Explores: New and Renewed Forms in 20th Century Art,” The New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York. Traveled to: University Art Museum, Berkeley; Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas; St Louis Art Museum; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C;
The Center of Fine Arts, Miami; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; Antoni Tapies Fundacio,
Barcelona; Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyons; Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1990 “It Must Give Pleasure, Erotic Perceptions,” curated by Tracy Williams, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
“Images of Death in Contempory Art,” Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art,
Milwaukee, WI
1988 “Summer Exhibition,” Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
1986 Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris
1985 Musee National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris
Selected Bibliography

Books and catalogues

Barbara Thompson: Crossing Currents: The Synergy of Jean-Michael Basquiat and Ouattara
Watts, Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, 2004
Documenta 11 Platform5: Ausstellung/Exhibition, Hatje Cantz, Kassel, 2002
Ouattara Watts in Rome, Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, exhibition catalogue, Rome, 1999
Prentice Abrams: Art History, 1995
Frederick Ted Castle: 0uattara, exhibition catalogue, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, 1990
Harry Abrams: New Art, New York, 1990
Gerard Barriere: Ouattara, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Boulakia, Paris, 1990
Ben Michel Warren: Ouattara, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto, 1989

Articles and reviews

2004 “Top 5 Shows in New York,” ArtPreview, November 2004 Massimo Carboni Translated from Italian by Marguerite Shore: ArtForum International, May 2004
2002 Franco Fanelli: “An A-Z of Documenta,” The Art Newspaper.com, #9677 A.E. Koungoun: “Soir Info,” Abidjan, July 25, 2002 Nancy Princental: “Whiter the Whitney Biennial?” Art in America, June 2002 Walter Robinson: “Magazine Reviews,” Artnet.com, May 9, 2002
Roberta Smith: The New York Times, May 10, 2002 Linda Yablonsky: “Whitney Biennial 2002,” Art News, April 2002 Ariella Budick: Newsday, New York, March 10, 2002
Holland Cotter: “Spiritual America from Ecstatic to Transcendent,” The New York
Times, March 8, 2002 Holland Cotter: The New York Times, February 17, 2002
2001 Holland Cotter: The New York Times, July 27, 2001
2000 Vanessa Rae Kalman: “See the Music,” Smock, premiere issue, 2000
1999 II Messag: Aero, Roma, April 1999
1998 Carrie Click: Aspen Times, July 1998
1996 Eleonor Heartney: Art in America, January 1996
1995 Okwui Enwezor : “Beyong Shamanism,” Nka Journal of Contemporary Art, Spring/Summer, No. 2, 1995 Holland Cotter: “Mix of Cultures, Politics and Bravado,” The New York Times, May 19, 1995 Arude, Volume 1, No.2, Fall 1995 The New Yorker, May 29, 1995
Franklin Sirmans: “One World,” September 1995 Kim Levin: Village Voice, May 1995
1994 Holland Cotter: “African Genesis: What Western Artists Like,” The New York Times,
May 27, 1994 Stuart Klaawans : “Letting Art and the Spirits Move Him,” Daily News, February 5,1994
1993 “New Art From Africa,” Kunstforum International, Germany, May 1993
1992 Ouattara: “Monographie,” Revue Noire, Paris, June-August 1992
Sydney Picasso: “Ouattara, Magic Man,” Contemporaine, February 199
1991 Konan Vanance: “Ouattara, Magic Man,” Ivoire Soir, Abidjan February 11, 1991
(interview) Simon Niamy: “Ouattara,” Artension, No.20, Paris, January 1991
Claude Bouyeure: “Magic Man,” Opus International, Paris, January 1991
Sylvie Last, Lydie Diakhate: “Ouattara,” Africa International, No. 234, January 1991
Henri Francois Debailleux: “Ouattara,” New Art International Reviews, February 1991
Jean Yves Jouannais: “Ouattara,” Art Press, February 1991
Lilly Wein: “Ouattara,” Art in America, September 1991
1990 Jacques Bouzerand: “Ouattara,” Point, No. 209, November 5, 1990
Bruno Fouchereau: “Ouattara,” VSD, No. 669, Paris, 28 June - 4 July, 1990
“Ouattara,” Chunichi Shinbun, Nagoya, February 27, 1990
Francois Farges: “Ouattara,” ArtThemes, November 1990
“Ouattara” FIIe, Paris, No. 2344, December 1990
“Des Enigmes et des Couleurs " Paris Ca Itale, November
Henri Francois Debailleux: Liberation, Paris 1er Novembre
Gianfranco Mantegna: Journal of Contemporary Art, New York, Fall / Winter
(interview)
Philippe Carteron: “La Tete dans les Etoiles,” Nouvel Observateur, Paris, December
13-19, 1990
Dawn Kolokithas: “Artists for the 90's,” Paris Passion, May 1990
Gerard Barriere: “Ouattara,” Gazette du Palais, September 26, 1990
Gerard Barriere: “Ouattara, Invitation au Voyage,” Artension, November 1990
“Ouattara,” L'Express, No. 384, November 1990
Kim Levin: “Ouattara,” Village Voice, New York, 13/19
Michel Faucher: “Ouattara,” No. 209, November/December 1990