EDUCATION:
1975 Yale University, MFA
1973 University of California, Los Angeles, BA
AWARDS
1999 Indivisible Commission
1997 Fulbright Fellowship
1994 Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize
1990 Eureka Fellowship
1989 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1988 James Phelan Art Award
1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Photo Survey Grant
1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Grant
1976 California Arts Council Special Projects Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXIBITIONS
2003 "The Photographs of Reagan Louie: Sex Work in Asia," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2003 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
1999 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Orange Coast College Art Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1994 Ruth Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 SUNY New Paltz College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY
1991 Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1989 Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXIBITIONS
2005 "The Anniversary Show," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 "Indivisible," Philadelphia Museum of Art , PA (traveling)
2001 "China," Minneaplis Institute of the Arts, MN (traveling)
2001 "Capturing Light," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2001 "Snapshots," Baltimore Contemporary Museum of Art, MD
2000 "Indivisible," Terra Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (traveling)
1998 International Seoul Photo-Triennial, Seoul, Korea
1997 "Masterpieces of Photography," Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
1997 "Hope," National Arts Club, New York, NY (traveling)
1996 "Three Photographers," Halsted Gallery, Detroit, MI
1995 "Choices," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1994 "Gesture and Form: 20th Century Photographs," MOMA, New York, NY
1994 "25th Anniversary Exhibition," Oakland Museum , Oakland, CA
1993 "Gesture and Nuance," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Contacts," Jersey City Museum, NJ
1991 "Visits to the Homland," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1991 "Tales of the City," Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA
1990 "Faces from China", Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
1988 "New Photography 4," MOMA, New York, NY
1988 "Phelan Awards Exhibition," San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Duke University, Durham, NC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2003 “Orientalia: Sex in Asia,” powerHouse Books
1995 “Worlds in Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues,” (co-editor) San
Francisco Art Institute/International Scholars Publications
1991 “Towards a Truer Life: Photographs of China 1980-1990,” Aperture
(Anthologies)
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