EDUCATION:
1975 MFA Yale University
1973 BA University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED AWARDS:
1999 “Indivisible” Commission, Duke University/CCP
1997 Fulbright Fellowship
1994 Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize
1990 Eureka Fellowship
1989 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
2008 Jacob Art Gallery, Wayne State Art University, Detroit, MI
2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2003 Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2003 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2002 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
1999 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
1995 Laurence Miller Gallery, NY
1994 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Ruth Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
1993 SUNY New Paltz College Art Gallery, NY
1990 Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
1989 Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco
1988 Orange Coast College Art Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 “Spirit House”, Cantor Art Museum, Stanford, CA
2023 “Sea Change”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2022 “At Home/On Stage”, Cantor Art Museum, Stanford, CA
2022 “CAAM: Representing Chinatown”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2021 “Trio”, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2017 “States of Disobedience”, Williams College Art Museum, Mass.
2016 “Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives”, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY
2015 Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing, China
2010 Permanent Collection, Oakland Museum
2009 “View From Here”, SFMOMA
2008 “7th Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, Korea
2008 “The Darkside”, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007 “Currents in Photography”, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2005 2nd Photo-Triennale, Seoul, Korea
2005 “The Anniversary Show”, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
2002 “Indivisible”, Philadelphia Museum of Art (travel)
2001 “American Dream(s): Ancestors and Diasporas, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
2001 “China”, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Hong Kong Art Centre (travel)
2001 “Capturing Light” Oakland Museum
2000 “Snapshots”, Baltimore Contemporary Art Museum
1998 International Seoul Photo-Triennale, Korea
1996 “Hope”, National Arts Club, New York (travel)
1995 “Three Photographers”, Halsted Gallery, Detroit, MI
1994 “Gesture and Form”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1994 “25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Oakland Museum
1993 “Contacts”, Jersey Art Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1991 “Visits to a Homeland”, Visual Studies Gallery, NY
1990 “Faces of China”, Photographic Center, Seattle, WA
1988 “New Photography 4”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cantor Art Museum, Stanford
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Creative Center for Photography, Tucson, AZ
Duke University
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Williams College Art Museum
Housatonic Art Museum, Bridgeport, CT
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2003 “Orientalia: Sex in Asia”, Powerhouse, NY
1995 “Worlds in Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues”, (co-editor), SFAI, San Francisco
1991 “Toward a Truer Life: Photographs of China 1980-1990”, Aperture, New York
(Anthologies)
2023 “Being & Becoming Asian in America”, Aperture Magazine #251
2016 “Gifts for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Campaign for Art, SFMOMA
2015 Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Catalog, Chongqing, China
2013 “Arts for the City”, Heyday Press, San Francisco
2009 “Beyond Beauty”, Duke University Press, Durham, NC
2008 “Darkside I”, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Steidl, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 7th Gwangju Biennale Catalogue, Korea
2005 2nd Photo-Triennale Catalogue, Seoul, Korea
2004 American Photography 20, Amilus, NY
2001 “Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present”, Norton, NY
2000 “Local Heroes: Changing America”, Norton, NY
1999 “China: Fifty Years Inside the People’s Republic”, Aperture, NY
1998 “Hope Photographs”, Thames and Hudson, NY
1987 “One Journey to China”, Aperture Magazine #105, New York, 1987
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2007 Chair, Photography Department, SFAI
1976-2020 Professor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
1997 Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES:
3 Shadows Photography Centre, Beijing, Central Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Yale University, University of Michigan, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, University of Iowa, Missouri State University, California College of Art, Asia Society, New York, Hong Kong Art Centre, Cooper Union College, Asia Society, New York, Asia Society, Hong Kong
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
INTERVIEWS:
2024, Louie, Reagan, SFMOMA Artist Interview
2023 Louie, Reagan, SFMOMA Artist interview
2023 Lew, Jarod/Louie, Reagan, Interview, SFMOMA
2023 Alexander, Aleesa Pitchamarn/Louie, Reagan, “How to Survive the American Dream”, Aperture 251
2022 Yin, Livien/Louie, Reagan, Interview, Cantor Art Museum, Stanford
2014 Gao Shiming interview SFAQ, issue 17
2004 Nnamdi, Kojo interview, (thekojonnamdishow.org)
2004 Simpson, Mark, interview, SexTV, January 17, 2004
2003 Barrington, Edgar interview, (www.themodernist.com)
2003 Louie, Reagan, interview, Forum, KQED, September 17, 2003
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
2018 Louie, Reagan, “Mickey Mouse Works His Magic in China” The New York Times, July 8, 2018
2018 Louie, Reagan, “Reagan Louie”, Medium, Shanghailist.com, March 15, 2018
2017 Jaeger, William, “Powerful ‘State of Disobedience”, Times Union, Jan. 6, 2017
2008 Louie, Reagan, “Seeing Deliberately”, California, vol119, no. 3, May/June 2008
2007 Louie, Reagan, “Roots and Branches”, California, vol 118, no. 3, May 2007
2006 Louie, Reagan, “Chinafornia”, California, vol 117, no. 1, Jan. 2006
2005 Portfolio, Pozytyw, Nr. 9/2005 (74
2004 Ninth Letter, Reagan Louie, Vol 1, No 1, Spring Summer 2004
2004 Yablonsky, Linda, “How Far Can You Go?”, ARTnews, vol 103, No. 1, Jan.
2004 Freeman, Tommy, Exhibition Review, ArtUS, January 20
2003 Reagan Louie portfolio, Zoom, issue 59, November
2003 Bush, Kate, Exhibition review, Artforum, May 2003
2003 Helfand, Glen, “A Girl in Every Port”, Salon.com, September 12, 2003
2003 Gefter, Philip, “Working Girls, Without Exoticism”, The New York Times, Sept. 28, 2003
2003 Photography Review, “Reagan Louie”, The New Yorker, Sept. 29, 2003
2002 Myers, Holly, “Avoiding Voyeurism, Provoking Unease”, Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2002
2000 Louie, Reagan, “China Girls”, Details, vol 19, issue 1, October 2000
1998 Buruma, Ian, “Feeling Flu-ish”, New York Times magazine, February 1, 1998
1994 Dalkey, Victoria, “Portrait of a State”, The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 2, 1994
1991 Hales, Peter, Photography Books of the Year, The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 1, 1991
1991 Wright, David, “A Photographer Comes Home”, Artweek, Aug. 29, 1991
1988 Grundberg, Andy, “Urbane Images of Alienation and Voyeurism”, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 1988
1988 Kilian, Michael, “The Face of China”, The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 24, 1988