left: Bowl of Cherries, 2004, puzzle parts and glue on wood, 72" diameter
right: Spunk, 2004, puzzle parts and glue on wood, 48" diameter

For the last two decades Al Souza, with great critical acclaim and success, has worked with ordinary materials and common subject matters. Culling materials from a world of excess, Souza creates dynamic compositions the eye compulsively traverses. The newest works are masterffully composed of thousands of layered jigsaw puzzle pieces in loose and semi-completed chunks.

Selected Exhibitions:
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC
Canon Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbuhel, Austria
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

Selected Collections:
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Yale University of Art, New Haven, CN
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, CT
Biblioteche Nationale, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
El Paso museum of Art, El Paso, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI
The Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
Djrassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Guernsey College, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Chase Manhatten Bank, New York, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
First National Bank, Boston, MA
Kemper Insurance Agency, Chicago, IL
Phillip Morris Company, New York, NY
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX
Neuberger Berman, New York, NY
Republic Bank, Houston, TX
Johnson & Johnson Corporation
Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, TX
Goldman Sachs, Dallas, TX
Carnation Company, Los Angeles, CA
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Federal Reserve Bank, Houston, TX
Plaza Hotel, New York, NY
American Airlines, Dallas, TX