EDUCATION
- 1975 Yale University, MFA
- 1973 University of California, Los Angeles, BA
SELECTED SOLOÂ EXHIBITIONS
- 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 GROUPÂ EXHIBITIONS
- 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
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
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