Curriculum Vitae

Zanele Muholi

Born 1972 in Durban, South Africa. Lives in Johannesburg.

Solo Exhibitions

2013	Faces and Phases, Palazzo S Agostino, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy Faces and Phases, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York ContemporaryVisual ARTIvist, Palermo Pride - Palazzo Ziino, Italy Mo(u)rning, Walker Street gallery, Melbourne
2012	Faces and Phases, Oldenburg, Germany; Goethe Institut, Johannesburg Visual ARTivist, Some Prefer Cake - Bologna Lesbian Film Festival; Florence Queer Film Festival, Italy Mo(u)rning, Stevenson, Cape Town Foot for Love, Espace Canopy, Paris
2011	Fragments of a New History, Casa Africa, Las Palmas Inkanyiso, Stevenson, Johannesburg What don't you see when you look at me?, Extraspazio, Rome
2010	Indawo Yami, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Faces and Phases, Fred, London
2009	Faces and Phases, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg Like a Virgin (two-person exhibition), CCA Lagos, Nigeria
2008	Manje, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
2007	Being, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2006	Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna Only half the picture, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Only half the picture, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg Only half the picture, Galerie 32-34, Amsterdam SoWhereTo Now, Afrovibes and Galeries 32-34, Amsterdam
2004	Visual Sexuality, as part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013	Imaginary Fact: South African art and the archive, South African Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg
2012	Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II: Contemporary Reconfigurations, Walther Collection Project Space, New York Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax Love and Africa, Menil Collection, Houston Transitions - Social Landscape Project, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg The Progress of Love, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos Time, Place and the Camera: Photographs at Work, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo A Necessary Theatre, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg 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 tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Africa: See You, See Me, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos; The National Museum, Lagos Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Mine - A selection of films by SA artists, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai
2011	What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town Photography I: Snapshots of a Generation, Wentrup, Berlin Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Lesbians Seeing Lesbians, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany Look 11 Photography Festival, Liverpool Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa, Stellenbosch University Art Museum, Stellenbosch Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African photography, V&A Museum, London 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 UK Africa: See You, See Me, Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Florence; Officine Fotografiche, Rome 20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, Netherlands Africa.es 7 miradas africanas sobre espana, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Mine - A selection of films by SA artists, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2010	Summer 2010/11, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town PEEKABOO - Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Africa: See Me, See You, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon Uprooting the Gaze: Foreign places familiar patterns, Fringe exhibition, Brighton Photo Biennial, UK Position as Desired - Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, ROM, Toronto Afrovibes festival, Amsterdam Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town 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 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 I am not afraid: The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery Swallow My Pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town In Between, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
2009	A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK Domestic, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg Innovative Women, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Undercover: Performing and transforming black female identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia 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 Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Mali
2008	Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles 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 Perfect Lovers, ArtExtra, Johannesburg Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
2007	Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and other venues, Germany Cape '07, Lookout Hill, Khayelitha, Cape Town
2006	Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2005	South African art 1848 - now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town A Lesson from History, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn Subject to Change, South African National Gallery, Cape Town Month of Photography, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Erotic Blenders, Toronto, Canada
2004	Young Vision 2004, Alliance Française, Johannesburg Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town Pride Week, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Gender & Visuality Conference, University of the Western Cape Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable? (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Museum Africa, Johannesburg Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2003	Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg Women Arts Festival, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg
2002	Women Arts Festival, Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna

Awards & Residencies

2012	Residency at Civitella Ranieri, Italy Shortlisted for the Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d'Arles
2009	Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jean-Paul Blachère award, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography Casa Africa award for best female photographer, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography Fanny Ann Eddy accolade by the International Resource Network in Africa (IRN-Africa) LGBTI Art & Culture Award
2006	BHP Billiton/ Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship
2005	Tollman Award LGBTI Art & Culture Award