ZWELETHU MTHETHWA

Born 1960, Durban

EDUCATION 1989 Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Art, Rochester Institue of Technology, Rochester 1985 Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 1984 Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 2012 ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa’, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa: Sugar Cane Series (2003 – 2007)’, curated Diego Cortez, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa’, curated by Kirsten Hileman, Project space, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore 2011 ‘New Works’, iArt Gallery (now Brundyn + Gonsalves), Cape Town 2010 ‘Inner Views’, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa’, iArt Gallery, Cape Town ‘Is it our goal…? And Other Related Issues’, Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg ‘Brick Workers and Contemporary Gladiators’, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid 2009 ‘New Works’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York 2008 ‘Children of a Lesser God’, Everard Read, Johannesburg ‘Contemporary Gladiators’, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm 2007 ‘Private-Public Spaces’, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris ‘Recent Works’, Galerie Oliva Arauna, Madrid ‘Maidens and Dance of Life’, Christine König, Vienna (in cooperation with Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop) 2006 ‘Gold Miners’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘New Works’, Everard Read, Johannesburg ‘Maidens’, Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg 2005 ‘Women in Private Spaces’, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm ‘Ticket to the Other Side’, Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg 2004 ‘Harvesting Workers’, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley ‘Lines of Negotiation’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘New Works’, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town 2003 ‘New Works’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa Photographs’, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 2002 Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis Galerie Hengevos, Hamburg 2001 ‘Private Spaces’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Galerie Jensen, Hamburg Centre national de la Photographie, Paris (curated by Regis Durand) ‘Mother & Child’, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano 2000 ‘Zwelethu Mthethwa: Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Galerie Hengevos and Jensen, Hamburg (part of the Triennale der Photographie) 1999 ‘Rebirth’, Project Room, FIAC, Paris; Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Paris Galeria Olivia Aruana, Madrid ‘Sacred Homes – Mother & Child’, Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome ‘Paris Pour Escale’, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ‘Art-World dialogue’, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany 1999 Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (curated by Clive Kellner) Galerie Hengevos and Jensen, Hamburg (part of the Triennale der Photographie) Project Room, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, ARCO, Madrid Project Room, Art Koln, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Koln ‘Towards-transit’, Zurich Art Chicago/At Navy Pier, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Chicago 1998 Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 1997 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles 1993 Gallery de Lyons, Cape Town 1992 Gallery de Lyons, Cape Town 1991 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town African Arts Centre, Durban 1987 College Union, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York 1986 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 ‘Good Health: Impilo Engcono’, BRUNDYN + GONSALVES, Cape Town 2013 ‘Present Tense’, curated by Antonio Pinto Ribeiro. Portugal Kochi Biennale 2012, Kochi, Kerala, India ‘Homebodies’, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Naomi Beckwith, Chicago 2012 ‘The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’, curated by Okwui Enwezor with Rory Bester, the International Center of Photography, New York ‘Love and Africa’, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas ‘La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Collection of Museums Boijmans’, Curated by Sjarel Ex., Van Beuningen, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art ‘Room in My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces’, SCAD Museum of Art, Gustein Gallery, ‘Contemporary African Photography: Zwelethu Mthethwa & Malick Sidibe’, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture, North Carolina ‘Environment and Object in Recent African Art’, Skidmore College Frances Young Tang teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont ‘Dying Minutes’ on Global Groove, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan 2011 ‘Beyond Convention: Reimaging Human Rights in a Time of Change’, Ford Foundation, New York ‘Are You A Hybrid’, Museum of Arts and Design, New York ‘Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (curated by Judith B. Hecker) ‘The Global Africa Project’, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond) ‘Environment and Object: Recent African Art’, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs ‘Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography’, The Porter Gallery, V&A Museum, London 2010 ‘Africa. Objects and Subject’, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijón; Canal de Isabel II, Madrid; Centro Cultural Cajstur, Oviedo ‘Km 89 Colección CGAC’, Museo Arte Contemporáneo do Vigo, Vigo ‘8 Fotografias, 4 Continentes’, Hotel Paris, Diputaction de Huelva Festival de Fotografia ‘A Collective Diary: An African Contemporary Journey’, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (curated by Simon Njami) ‘Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection’, Gallery 44, Houston ‘The Walther Collection’, Burlafingen (curated by Okwui Enwezor) 2009 ‘Prospect 1 New Orleans’, New Orleans ‘Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings’, Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara ‘Beyond The Familiar: Photography And The Construction of Community’, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown ‘Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as Metaphor for Identity’, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ‘Rethinking Landscape: Photography from the Collection of Allen Thomas Jr.’, Roanoke Museum, VA ‘Sharing Territories’, 5th Soa Tome Biennale, curated by Adelaide Ginga, Soa Tome and Principe 2008 ‘People’, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York ‘Scratches on the Face’, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai ‘Brave New Worlds’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ‘Between Us – Entre Nous – Phakathi Kwethu’, iArt Gallery, Cape Town New Orleans Biennale ‘World Receiver: 10 Years’, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 2007 ‘Existencias’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, MUSAC, León ‘Apartheid: El Mirall Sud-Africà’, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona ‘South African Art: Modern Art and Cultural Development in a Changing Society’, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava ‘So Close So Far Away’, Crac Alsace, France ‘Defining Moments in Photography from the MCA Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ‘Planet Afrika: Carte Blanche’, curated by Thomas Mank, Kultursysteme, Berlin 2006 ‘The Living is Easy’, Flowers East, Hoxton ‘Black Panther Rank and File’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco ‘Black, Brown & White’, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria ‘Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography’, International Center of Photography, New York ‘The Whole World is Rotten’, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati ‘Why Pictures Now’, MUMOK Lounge, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna ‘Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as a Metaphor for Identity’, Tisch Gallery, Boston Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Artists’ Week 2006, Adelaide (curated by Julianne Pierce) 2005 Emergencies, at the Museo de Arte Contemporeneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC, Spain ‘Ticket to the Other Side’, Hengevoss-Duerkop Gallery, Hamburg ‘The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice’, The Nasher Museum at Duke University ‘The Experience of Art’, The Venice Biennial, Venice (curated by Maria de Corral) ‘New Work / New Acquisitions’, Museum of Modern Art, New York ‘Green to Green and Beyond’, Gallery W 52, New York ‘A Passion for Pictures’, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina ‘Imprints: Works on paper’, Axis Gallery, New York ‘The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph’, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton 2004-5 The Prague Biennale, Prague ‘African Art, African Voices’, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia ‘Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art’, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (curated by Simon Njami) Tama University Art Gallery, Tokyo ‘Africa Remix’, Zeitgenossische Kunst eines Kontinents, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (curated by Simon Njami) ‘Where?’, Clifford Chance Projects, New York 2004 ‘Passaporto’, Le Meridien Lingotto Art & Tech, Torino ‘Ipermercati dell’Arte’, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna ‘Made in Africa Fotografia’, Musei di Porta Romana, Milan ‘Festival della Fotografia’, British Academy, Rome ‘Festival Couleur Café’, Tour et Taxis, Brussels (curated by Hernau Bertiau) ‘New Identities: Contemporary South Africa Art’, Bochum Museum, Germany ‘Postcards from Cuba’, a selection from the 8th Havana Biennale, Henie Onstad Kunstenter, Oslo ‘5th Bamako Encounters’, Afritudine, Musei di Porta Romama / Galleria Arteutopia, Italy Grenier a sel, Honfleur Kornhausforum, Berne 2003-4 ‘Body and the Archive’, Artists Space, New York Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario 2003 8th Havana Biennial, Cuba Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (curated by Dan Cameron) ‘Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video’, International Center of Photography, New York (curated by Brian Wallis) Prague Biennial, Prague ‘Portraiture (Every Picture Tells A Story)’, Solomon Projects, Atlanta Sharjah International Biennale, Sharjah (curated by Hoor Al-Qasimi and Peter Lewis) 2002-3 ‘The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality’, organized by Independent Curators International New York. Traveled to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, February 9–May 5, 2002; Palazzo Delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy, June 2–September 24, 2001; Candiani Centro Culturale, Venice, Italy, October– December 2001; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, November 27, 2002–March 3, 2003; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 4–June 15, 2003; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 16–October 18, 2003. 2002 ‘New Acquisitions/ New Works/ New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles ‘Staging’, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis ‘Untitled’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘In Situ – Portraits of People at Home’, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond ‘Cultural Crossing’, Numark Gallery, Washington DC ‘Fuoriuso’, Ferrotel, Pescara (curated by Teresa Macri) ‘Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture’, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; ‘Tracing the Rainbow’, Kunst Raum Sylt-Quelle, Germany; Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg/Nechtar Group Exhibition, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano ‘Overnight to Many Cities: Tourism and Travel at Home and Away’, The Photographers’ Gallery, London ‘Dis/location’, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao Centro Cultural de Maia, O’Porto ‘Sudafrica: la pittura’, la fotographia, il cinema, Centro Trevi, Bolzano ‘Videoarte Africana’, 25° Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2001 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive ‘I Love NY’, benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago ‘The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994’, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S. 1 Museum for Contemporary Art, New York (curated by Okwui Enwezor) ‘A Passion for Art: The Disaronno Originale Photography Collection’, Miami Art Museum, Miami; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University of California, Berkeley; Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley ‘Africa Today’, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona (curated by Pep Subiros) ‘Boomerang: Collector’s Choice’, Exit Art, New York2000 ‘Africa2000: The Artist and the City’, Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona ‘Overnight to Many Cities: Travel and Tourism at Home and Away’, 303 Gallery, New York 2000 ‘Paris pour escale’, Musee d’Art Moderna de la Ville de Paris, Paris ‘The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality’, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; Scottsdale Museum of Art, Arizona ‘TRADE – Wares, ways and values in world trade today’, Fotomuseum Wintherthur, Germany Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam Centro de Belles Artes, Madrid ‘Storie Contemporanee’, Museo Civico di Bergamo (curated by Paola Tognon) ‘Simultaneous’, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ‘A3HB’, Hans Bogatske Collection of Contemporary African Art, Camouflage, Brussels ‘Five Artists Having Fun’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ‘A.R.E.A. 2000’, Kjarvaisstadir, Reykjavik (curated by Gavin Younge) ‘South Meets West’, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (curated by Bernard Fibicher) ‘Mirades Impudiques’, Fundacio La Caixa Barcelona (curated by Rosa Olivares and Marta Gili) ‘Dire Aids-Say Aids’, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino Dak’Art Biennale, Senegal (curated by Hans Bogatzke) ‘Arts and Human Rights’, Kwangju International Biennale, Seoul (curated by Ichiro Hariu) ‘Home’, Perth International Arts Festival, Art Gallery of Perth Cultural Centre, Perth ‘Il Sentimento del 2000’, Arte E Foto: 1960/2000, La Triennale de Milano, Milan Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Mostra Africana de Arte Conemporanea, Video Brazil, Sao Paulo L’Afrique a jour, in collaboration with Biennale Dakar 2000, AFAA, Lille Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan (curated by Rosa Martinez) Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (curated by Clive Kellner) 2000-3 ‘Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa’, The Museum for African Art, New York; Austin Museum of Art, Texas; Iris & B. Gerald Canto Center For Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford; The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson 1999 ‘Site Santa Fe: Looking for a Place’, 3rd International Biennial, Santa Fe (curated by Rosa Martinez) Goteborgs Kunstmuseum, Goteborg (curated by Lena Boethues) ‘Photospana 99: images of dignity’, Madrid (curated by Miguel Angel Invarato) ‘Rewind fast forward. Za’, Van Reekum Museum in Appeldoorn Museum, Appeldoorn ‘Images for Dignity’, PhotoEspane 99, Barcelona ‘Project Conflux’, Tendaces Mikado, Luxembourg Fondazione Bevelacqua, Venice (curated by Luca Massimo Barbero) ‘Camouflage’, Hans Bogatzke Collection of Contemporary African Art, Brussels ‘South Meets West’, The National Museum Accra, Ghana; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern ‘Staking Claims’, The Granary - part of the One City Many Cultures Festival, Cape Town 1998 Houston Photo Festival, Houston, Texas Dak’Art Biennale, Senegal ‘A History of African Photography’, La Maison Europeenne de la Photo, Paris ‘Africa, Africa’, Tobu Museum, Tokyo ‘Democracy's Images: photographs and visual art after Apartheid’, Bildmuseet, Umea The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Sasol Art Collection, Oudtshoorn ‘Africa by Africa’, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London ‘Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening’, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York 1998 ‘Blank…. State of Architecture + Urban Planning in South Africa’, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam ‘Architecture, Apartheid and After’, Van Reekum Museum, Rotterdam (curated by Hilton Judin) ‘Awakening’, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York 1997 ‘Lift Off’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg ‘Trade Routes: History and Geography’, Johannesburg Biennale, Electric Workshop, Johannesburg (curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya) ‘Photo Synthesis-Contemporary South African Photography’, Grahamstown Art Festival, Grahamstown National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo ‘La Boheme: Noir’, Primart Gallery, Cape Town Association for Visual Arts, CRAM, Cape Town 1996 Adelson Gallery, New York Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town 1995 World Economic Forum Group Show, Davos ‘Crosscurrents’, Very Special Arts Gallery, Washington DC ‘Africa 95’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Dusseldorf ‘Artists for Peace '95’, Palais des Nations (UN Geneva), Geneva; Dusseldorf S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town ‘Africus: Johannesburg Biennale’, Johannesburg 1994 ‘Crosscurrents’, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami S.A. Artists, Ottobrunn, Germany 1993 Grand Prix International d'Arts Plastiques, International Visual Arts, Nice Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava Abidjan Biennale, Abidjan 1992 Singapore Exhibition, group show of South African artists 1991 Dalijosafat Arts Centre, Paarl S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town 1990 N.S.A Gallery, Durban 1989 Memorial Art Museum, New York 1988 Bethune Gallery, S.U.N.Y., New York Rainbow Gallery, S.U.N.Y., New York 1986 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, University of Natal, Durban 1985 Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town

AWARDS 2005 Commissioned for the International Absolut Collection 1998 Nominated for the Vita Awards 1993 City of Abijan prize, Biennale (Ivory Coast) Bertrams V.O. Award Indigenous People. 1987 Fullbright Scholarship to study in the USA, Rochester Institute of Technology 1985 Irma Stern Scholarship 1984 Class Medal for graduation with a distinction in the Fine Arts Department (UCT) 1981 Simon Gerson Prize for the most promising art student (UCT).

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ABSA Bank, South Africa Absolut Collection, Sweden Arco Foundation, Madrid Boland Bank, South Africa Bouwfonds Art Collection, Netherlands Cape Department of Education Trust, South Africa The Corcoran Museum Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Daimler Chrysler Collection, Germany Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Durban Art Gallery, Durban Gencor S.A. Ltd, South Africa Getty Museum, Los Angeles Gilbey's Ltd. Guggenheim Museum, New York Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca Herdboys, South Africa Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa JSE – Stock Exchange, South Africa Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg LaSalle Bank, Chicago Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, North Western University Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago Metropolitan Life, South Africa Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ministere Culture Communication, France MTN Collection, South Africa Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Madrid Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna National Museum of African Art, Washington North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Old Mutual, South Africa PKS, South Africa Pompidou Centre, Paris Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Mayfield Village Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa S.A. Reserve Bank, South Africa Samuel Harn Museum, Miami San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Sanlam, South Africa Sasol, Durban; Cape Town; New York Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Siemans Ltd, South Africa Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC South African Breweries, South Africa South African Embassy, Washington South African National Gallery, Cape Town Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Stellenbosch University, South Africa Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg The Corcoran Museum Gallery of Art, Washington DC The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Modern Art, New York The New Museum, New York The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Transnet Ltd, South Africa University of South Africa University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Victoria & Albert Museum, London Vodacom Collection, South Africa Wooltru, Cape Town