513 WEST 20TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011 TEL: 212.645.1701 FAX: 212.645.8316 JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY ZWELETHU MTHETHWA Born in 1960, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa EDUCATION 1989 Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Art, Rochester Institute of Technology 1985 Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town 1984 Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town SELECTED ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS 2013 Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, January 24–February 23, 2013. Untitled Portraits by Zwelethu Mthethwa, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 30–December 17, 2013. 2012–2013 Zwelethu Mthethwa, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, November 17, 2012–February 10, 2013. 2012 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Sugar Cane (2003–2007), John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, January 17–April 8, 2012. Curated by Diego Cortez. 2011 Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, iArt Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, May 18–June 29, 2011. (Catalogue) 2010 Zwelethu Mthethwa, iArt Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, May 18–June 29, 2010. WWW.JACKSHAINMAN.COM [email protected] Zwelethu Mthethwa: Selected Biography Page 2 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Is it our goal…? And Other Related Issues, Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 3–July 9, 2010. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 15–October 24, 2010. (Catalogue) Zwelethu Mthethwa: Brick workers & Contemporary Gladiators, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain, September 7–October 14, 2010. 2009 Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, April 23–May 23, 2009. 2008 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Children of a Lesser God, Everard Read, Johannesburg, March 6–30, 2008. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Contemporary Gladiators, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm, April 3–May 11, 2008. 2007 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Private-Public Spaces, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, January 26–March 10, 2007. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Recent Works, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, February 3–March 17, 2007. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Maidens and Dance of Life, Christine König, Vienna, in cooperation with Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop, June 1–August 4, 2007. 2006 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Gold Miners, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 25–June 24, 2006. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Maidens, Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg, Germany, November 8–December 10, 2006. Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa 2005 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Ticket to the Other Side, Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg, October 26– November 30, 2005. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Women in Private Spaces, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm, November 3– December 3, 2005. 2004 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Lines of Negotiation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 18–April 17, 2004. Zwelethu Mthethwa: Harvesting Workers, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town 2003 WWW.JACKSHAINMAN.COM [email protected] Zwelethu Mthethwa: Selected Biography Page 3 Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, February 13–March 15, 2003. Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa Photographs, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, February 15– April 23, 2003. Hamburg Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg 2002 Galerie Hengevoss, Hamburg Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri 2001 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Mother & Child, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy Zwelethu Mthethwa: Private Spaces, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Centre national de la Photoraphie, curated by Regis Durand, Paris Galerie Jensen, Hamburg 2000 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Recent Photographs, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 25–June 24, 2000. Galerie Hengevos and Jensen, part of the Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg 1999 Paris Pour Escale, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Rebirth, Project Room, FIAC Paris, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Paris Sacred Homes – Mother & Child, Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome Towards-transit, Zurich Art Chicago/At Navy Pier, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Chicago Art-World dialogue, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany Foto Biennale Rotterdam. Curated by Clive Kellner. Galerie Hengevoss & Jensen, Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid Olivia Aruana Gallery, Madrid Project Room, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, ARCO, Madrid WWW.JACKSHAINMAN.COM [email protected] Zwelethu Mthethwa: Selected Biography Page 4 Project Room, Art Koln, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Koln, Germany 1998 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy 1997 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles 1993 Gallery de Lyons, Cape Town 1992 Gallery de Lyons, Cape Town 1991 African Arts Centre, Durban, South Africa S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town 1987 College Union, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 1986 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 - 2019 Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, January 27, 2017 – January 6, 2019. 2017 Mois de la Photo in Afriques Capitales, Curated by Simon Njami, La Villette in Paris, France, March 28 – May 21, 2017. Life World: Photography from the CIAC Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, February 27 – April 30, 2017. 2016 - 2017 Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, December 9, 2016 – May 27, 2017. 2016 WWW.JACKSHAINMAN.COM [email protected] Zwelethu Mthethwa: Selected Biography Page 5 African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, January 29 – August 28, 2016. 2015 Still Slave. Periferias 16.0: BLACK. Huesca County Council, Huesca, Spain, October 30 - November 22, 2015. 2014 Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 13, 2014 – March 22, 2015 2013 Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 2013. Curated by Naomi Beckwith. Present Tense, Portugal, June 2013. Curated by Antonio Pinto Ribeiro. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 20–December 12, 2013. Kochi Biennale 2012, Kochi, Kerala, India, December 12, 2012. 2012–2013 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Center of Photography, New York, September 14, 2012–January 6, 2012. Curated by Okwui Enwezor. 2012 Contemporary African Photography: Zwelethu Mthethwa & Malick Sidibe, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 13–June 16, 2012. La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Collection of Museums Boijmans, Van Beuningen, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, February 16–May 6, 2012. Curated by Sjarel Ex. African Photography, For Whose Eyes?: Constructing and Deconstructing Identities, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York, April 12–May 13, 2012. 2011–2012 Environment and Object in Recent African Art, Skidmore College Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, February 6–July 31, 2011. Traveling to: Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, September 9–December 11, 2011; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, January 27–April 22, 2012. 2011 Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 10–August 14, 2011. Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker. Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 23–August 14, 2011. Curated by Judith B. Hecker. (Catalogue) WWW.JACKSHAINMAN.COM [email protected] Zwelethu Mthethwa: Selected Biography Page 6 Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, April 12–July 17, 2011. Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, May 3–October 2, 2011. Beyond Convention: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change, Ford Foundation, New York, September 20–November 1, 2011. 2010–2011 The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, November 17, 2010–May 15, 2011. Curated by Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond. (Catalogue) 2010 A Collective Diary: An African Contemporary Journey, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curated by Simon Njami. Africa: Objects and Subjects, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijón, Spain. Traveled to: Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection, Gallery 44, Houston, Texas The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany. Curated by Okwui Enwezor. 2009 Beyond The Familiar: Photography And The Construction of Community, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Prospect 1 New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 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 Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings, Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California 2008–2009 Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as Metaphor for Identity, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, Spring 2008. Traveled to: Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, June 17–September