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