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Zanele Muholi

8 September - 27 November 2015

BRIEF

Solo Exhibitions

2015     Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence, Brooklyn Museum, New York

  The Visual Art of Activism, Akershus Kunstsenter, Norma

 

2014     Faces and Phases, EinsteinHaus, Ulm, Germany

  fo(u)nd, The O.P.E.N., Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore
  Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
  Zanele Muholi. Photography, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Faces and Phases, 6th edition Massimadi Festival, Montreal, Canada
  Of Love & Loss, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Zanele Muholi, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
  Selected FACES & PHASES and BEULAHS, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany

 

2013     Fragments of a New History, Porte 44 - MC2a and l'Arrêt sur l'Image gallery, Bordeaux, France

  Beauty & Shadow, atria, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  f(o)und, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Faces and Phases, Palazzo S Agostino, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
  Faces and Phases, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
  ContemporaryVisual ARTIvist, Palermo Pride; Cagliari Pride, Italy
  Mo(u)rning, Walker Street gallery, Melbourne, Australia

 

2012     Faces and Phases, Oldenburg, Germany; Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Visual ARTivist, Bologna Lesbian Film Festival; Florence Queer Film Festival, Italy
  Mo(u)rning, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Foot for Love, Espace Canopy, Paris, France

 

2011     Fragments of a New History, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain

  Inkanyiso, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  What don't you see when you look at me?, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy

 

2010     Indawo Yami, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  Faces and Phases, Fred, London, United Kingdom

 

2009     Faces and Phases, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Like a Virgin, CCA Lagos, Nigeria

 

2008     Manje, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy

 

2007     Being, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

 

2006     Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, Austria

  Only half the picture, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Only half the picture, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Only half the picture, Galerie 32-34, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  SoWhereTo Now, Afrovibes and Galeries 32-34, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2004     Visual Sexuality, as part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015     The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, The Qalther Collection, Ulm, Germany,

  Visual Activism, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne, Australia

  Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
  Residual: traces of the black body, New Art Exchange, UK

 

2014     The Institute of Sexology, The Wellcome Collection, London

  Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art,

  New York, USA
  SOUTH3: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico & South Africa, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre,

  Gymea, Australia
  Looking Back, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa
  XIII edizione: PORTRAIT, Fotografia festival, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
  Typology, Taxonomy and Seriality: Photography from The Walther Collection, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France

  Exotic symmetric, Les Abattoirs : Museum of Modern Art and Frac Midi-Pyrénées, France
  Queering the International, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
  PORT, Queer Arts Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
  Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA

  From Sitting to Selfie: 300 years of South African Portraits, Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
  After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art,

  New York, USA
  Contemporary Art/South Africa, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Precarious Imaging: Visibility Surrounding African Queerness, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
  Faces and Phases, Venice and Trento Pride, Palazzo Trentini, Italy
  Haute Africa, Fotofestival, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  El cuerpo queer, la construcción de la memoria, Arte Actual - FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador
  Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
  Apartheid & After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2013     WELT − BILDER 5 / WORLD IMAGES 5, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland

  Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

  New Delhi, India
  Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
  Sharp Sharp Johannesburg, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
  To be a Lady: an international celebration of women in the arts, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
  Glyphs: Acts of Inscription, Pitzer College Art Galleries, California, USA
  SubRosa: The Language of Resistance, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA
  worldOutgames III, Galerie Verbeeck - Van Dyck, Anwerp, Belgium
  Transgender Me, Prague Pride, Galerie NTK, Czech Republic
  Transitions - Social Landscape Project, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
  My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
  I See Rainbows, -kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway
  Imaginary Fact: South African art and the archive, South African Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
  Gender Questions, 19 CRAC in Montbéliard, France
  All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2012     Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II: Contemporary Reconfigurations,

             Walther Collection Project Space, New York, USA

  Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax, Canada
  Love and Africa, Menil Collection, Houston, USA
  Transitions - Social Landscape Project, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  The Progress of Love, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  Time, Place and the Camera: Photographs at Work, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo
  A Necessary Theatre, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
  Discovery Award 2012 exhibition, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
  The Next Generation, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Trans_forming politics/Politicizing Trans, Galerie Funke, Berlin, Germany
  tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
  Africa: See You, See Me, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos; The National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria

  Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach,

  University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
  Mine - A selection of films by SA artists, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai,

  The United Arab Emirates

 

2011     What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  Photography I: Snapshots of a Generation, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
  Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach,

  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  Lesbians Seeing Lesbians, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, USA
  Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
  Look 11 Photography Festival, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa, Stellenbosch University Art Museum,

  Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African photography, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom
  Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers, Royal Festival Hall, London; Norwich University 

  College of the Arts Gallery, Norwich; and other venues in the Unied Kingdom
  Africa: See You, See Me, Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Florence; Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy
  20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Africa.es 7 miradas africanas sobre espana, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
  Mine - A selection of films by SA artists, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany

 

2010     Summer 2010/11, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  PEEKABOO - Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  Africa: See Me, See You, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
  Uprooting the Gaze: Foreign places familiar patterns, Fringe exhibition, Brighton Photo Biennial, United Kingdom
  Position as Desired - Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection,

  ROM, Toronto, Canada
  Afrovibes festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
  This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Italy
  ...for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices, MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Halakasha!, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Mosaïque de photos, Chartres, France
  Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
  1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  I am not afraid: The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
  Swallow My Pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
  In Between, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA

 

2009     A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham,

  United Kingdom

  Domestic, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Innovative Women, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Undercover: Performing and transforming black female identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,

  Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  Rebelle: Kunst & Feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
  Museion Collection: Presentation of the new acquisitions, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of

  Bolzano, Italy
  Gender, (Trans) Gender and (De) Gendered, a special project of the Havana Biennale, Cuba
  I bought me a cat, MiCamera, Milan, Italy
  Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Mali

 

2008     Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College,

  Hanover, New Hampshire, and other venues in the US
  .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  Perfect Lovers, ArtExtra, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy

 

2007     Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
  Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and

  other venues, Germany
  Cape '07, Lookout Hill, Khayelitha, Cape Town, South Africa

 

2006     Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,

  Canary Islands, Spain
  South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

 

2005     South African art 1848 - now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

  A Lesson from History, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
  Subject to Change, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  Month of Photography, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
  Erotic Blenders, Toronto, Canada

 

2004     Young Vision 2004, Alliance Française, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town, South Africa
  Pride Week, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Gender & Visuality Conference, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable? (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Museum Africa,

  Johannesburg, South Africa
  Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2003     Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Women Arts Festival, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2002     Women Arts Festival, Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna, South Africa

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