Lewis Watts

Lewis Watts (born 1946) is an American photographer, archivist curator, art historian, author, lecturer, and educator. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz (U.C. Santa Cruz).

Career Lewis Watts was born in 1946 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has a BA degree in political science, as well as a MA degree in photography and design from University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley). He had taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of California, Berkeley,

Exhibitions 1998–1999 – Urban Foot Prints: The Photography of Lewis Watts, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California 1999 – Lewis Watts, South to West Oakland, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 1999 – Lifework Exhibit, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California 1999 – Photography of Lewis Watts, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 2015–2017 – New Orleans, Photographs by Lewis Watts, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California 2016 – FRANCAIS, Photographs by Lewis Watts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 2017 – Mining the Archive, Rena Bransten Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California 2017 – Work from the Collection, Lewis Watts, Amistad Center of Art and Culture, Hartford, Connecticut

Publications

Filmography 1999 – Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco (advisor) 2014 – Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (Documentary) 2015 – Dogtown Redemption (Documentary) (advisor) 2016 – Independent Lens (TV series, documentary advisor for 1 episode)