Zanele Muholi
News
Zanele Muholi is included on the group show tête-à-tête curated by Mickalene Thomas at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (29 March to 5 May), and on Appropriated Landscapes at the Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany (until May 2013). Her award-winning documentary Difficult Love shows in St Petersburg, together with an exhibition of prints, as part of the Open Eyes Film Festival Against Racism and Xenophobia (13 to 23 April); at the 14th International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (19 to 26 April); and at the Lesbian Spring Festival in Toulouse presented by Bagdam Espace lesbien on 21 April.
Exhibitions / Works
- Blood paintings on What we talk about when we talk about love (Cape Town, 1 December 2011 - 14 January 2012)
- Inkanyiso (Johannesburg, 7 July - 5 August 2011)
- New Faces and Phases (Art Basel, 15-19 June 2011)
- 'I'm just doing my job' on Summer 2010/11 (Cape Town, 2 December 2010 - 15 January 2011)
- Faces and Phases (2006 - 2010)
- Indawo Yami (Cape Town, 22 April - 29 May 2010)
- Being (T)here on Summer 2009/10: Projects (Cape Town, 26 November 2009 - 16 January 2010)
- Iveza, Isibonelo, Isililo II on Self/Not-self (Johannesburg, 19 February - 21 March 2009)
- La Rochelle on Disguise (Cape Town, 15 May - 5 July 2008)
- Miss D'vine (2007)
- Being (Cape Town, 4 June - 7 July 2007)
- New work on South African Art Now (Cape Town, 29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
- Only half the picture (Cape Town, 29 March - 29 April 2006)
Publications
- Zanele Muholi: African Women Photographers #1 (2011)
- Faces and Phases (2010)
- Only half the picture (2006)
Biography
Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and lives in Cape Town. She studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg. She was a founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng. Recent solo shows have taken place at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto and at Fred, London (2010). She was the recipient of the 2005 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, the first BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006, and was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2009 she received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions to the study of sexuality in Africa. She also won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography in 2009. In 2010 her Faces and Phases series was included on the 29th São Paulo Biennale; the series was published by Prestel and nominated as best photobook of 2010 at the International Photobook Festival in Kassel.
Full CV Also see www.zanelemuholi.com