Lewis deSoto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lewis deSoto
Occupation	American Artist
Date Of Birth	Jan 3, 1954(1954-01-03)
Age	70
Birthplace	San Bernardino
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Lewis deSoto Biography

Lewis deSoto is one of the most popular and richest American artist who was born on January 3, 1954 in San Bernardino, California, United States. Lewis deSoto, born 1954 in San Bernardino (California), is an American artist with Cahuilla Native American ancestry.

Projects like Tahualtapa (1983-1988), which was the next project, began to draw more from deSoto’s Cahuilla heritage. Through a series photographs, whose frames are filled in with materials related to the mountain’s past, such as feathers and marble, the series documents the gradual elevation of a mountain in San Bernardino County (known in Cahuilla as Tahualtapa). DeSoto began to transition from photography to installation through works such as “Site Projects” (1980-1986), where large-scale manipulations were combined with “nondestructive” interventions in actual landscapes. This was reminiscent of Robert Smithson and included long exposures that documented the temporal changes in each piece.

In addition to works drawing from Catholic, Muslim, and Buddhist traditions, many of deSoto’s installation works in the 1990s—such as Haypatak, Witness, Kansatsusha (1990) and Pe Tukmiyat, Pe Tukmiyat (Darkness, Darkness) (1991) at the San Jose Museum of Art—drew heavily upon Cahuilla creation mythology. But while the light and sound effects generated could appear otherworldly, Solnit noted in 1994 that “increasingly, his installations rely upon quotidian objects — most often, furniture and machines, the objects appropriate to rooms for living and making, rather than looking at.” She quotes deSoto’s assertion that there is no word for sacredness in the Cahuilla language in support of the idea that his work asks questions about the possibility of locating the sacred in the everyday.

In 1991 deSoto was one of five artists commissioned to create site-specific artworks at the former site of the Rose Theatre in Bankside, London; in the accompanying catalog, deSoto states that he aims for his installations to take the form of an “experience, rather than a representation of ideas,” and intends the work to take on its own “independent life…in time.”

DeSoto was born in San Bernardino in California. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School, 1981.

Lewis deSoto Net Worth

Lewis deSoto is one of the richest American Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lewis deSoto 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Inland Empire Project, a project that took photographs of different California locations, was started in 1979. The exhibition only included panoramas. However, the book contains both single-frame images and panoramic images. DeSoto wrote that the panoramas are a broad public exposure, while single- frame images are a type of private view.

Visions of America, Landscape as Metaphor in Late Twentieth Century: Rebecca Solnit writes “deSoto’s oeuvre starts with Botanica (1980),” a series of photographs of plants that Solnit calls “abandoning the rules of landscape photography”. Solnit suggests that the blurry, delicate movements of deSoto’s camera resulting from slow exposure and flash reflect a time- and process- based emphasis on “encounter”, which would later influence deSoto’s installation work

DeSoto is based in Napa, California and New York City and has been a professor of photography at San Francisco State University since 1988.

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To date deSoto has created three conceptual car projects: Conquest (2004), Cahuilla (2006), and Imperial America (2008). These projects consist of vintage automobiles outfitted with what Nick Czap calls “meticulously deadpan” details and design elements. In a 2010 profile in the New York Times Auto section, Czap writes that the extensive and often symbolic modifications made to these cars transform them into “vehicles for exploring subjects from the acts of Spanish conquistadors to the empowerment of Native Americans to the military-industrial complex.”

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Lewis Ranked on the list of most popular American artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lewis deSoto celebrates birthday on January 3 of every year.

DeSoto’s first conceptual car Conquest was re-made in such a subtle fashion that the artist presented it as a replica of a rare prototype at a Northern California Chrysler car show, where it won second prize. It was later shown at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, the de Young Museum’s “High 5” exhibit, and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas as well as the diRosa Preserve in Napa, CA. Historian Eric Foner writes of Conquest: “This ‘public sculpture’ by the Native American artist Lewis DeSoto links his own surname with more than four centuries of American history.” In a 2006 essay about the No Reservations exhibition at the Aldrich Museum, Smithsonian National Museum curator Paul Chaat Smith writes of Conquest: “Lewis deSoto embraces the transgressive nature of No Reservations by building a car from a parallel universe.”