Bamako, Mali, (1921-2001)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Untitled: Seydou Keïta, MACAAL, 1-54 Contemporary African Fair, Marrakech Morocco
2018-19 ‘Seydou Keïta Institito Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro Brasil.
2018 ‘Seydou Keïta – Bamako Portraits, FOAM, Amsterdam,
2017 Seydou Keïta, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2016 Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2016 Seydou Keïta, Grand Palais, Paris
2013 Seydou Keïta Photographs from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, the Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Russia
2011 Seydou Keïta Gallery Fifty One Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Seydou Keïta, Beautiful like that, Jack Bell Gallery, London England
2008-2009 State of the Flux, Tate Modern, London UK
2006 Seydou Keïta: Portraits of Maili, MOCA Cleveland
2006 Seydou Keïta: Portraits John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Seydou Keïta: Portraits Galleria Marabini, Bologna Italy
2006 Seydou Keïta:The imagee King of Africa, Sean Kelly gallery, New York
2006 Seydou Keïta: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity Collece
2002-03 Mali Portraits by Seydou Keïta, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2001 Flash Afrique, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2001 Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna di Roma, Italy
1998-1999 Seydou Keïta Photographs, 1949-1974, Saint Louis Art Museum, S. Louis Missour, USA
1997 Seydou Keïta, Gagosian gallery, New York
Selected Collective Exhibitions
2019 Studio Africa, Jean Pigozzi, 2019, artgenève
2017-2018 Making Africa, A continent of Contemporary
2017 On aime l’art….! Agnés b. Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
2017 Africa. Raccontare un mondo, PAC, Milan, Italy
Conflict Resolution Art, Athens, Greece
2017 Art/Afrique, Le Nouvelle atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2017 Autophoto, de 1900 à nos jours, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2017 The Islamic Treasures of Africa, From Timbuktu to Zanzibar, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2016 Après Eden, La collection Walther Le Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2015-16 In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa, MET New York, USA
2013-14 White: Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012 August Sander and Seydou Keïta, Portraiture and a Social Identity, Walther Collection, Project Space, New York, USA.
2007-08 Why Africa? Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin Italy
2006-2007 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2005 Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2005 African Art Now: Masterpiece from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA
2004-2005 Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2004-2005 African Art African Voie: Long Steps Never Broke Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2003-2004 Go Johnnny Go, Kunsthallewien, Vienna, Austria
2003-2004 Village Global: les années 60, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2003 You look beautiful like that, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
2001 The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movement in Africa 1945-1994, MoMA PS1, New York.
Collections
Foundation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France
21C Museum Foundation, Louisville, USA
Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York, USA
Credit Suisse Trust Collection, Switzerland
Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit,
MI Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, UK
England Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Arts of Africa/Oceania, New York, USA Michael C. Carlos Museum,
Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis, USA
Trinity College, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland University of Chicago, Chicago, USA US Department of State Collection, Washington D.C., USA
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA