William Kentridge
Born
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955
Education
University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1973-76
Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1976-78
École Jacques LeCoq, Paris, France, 1981-82
Awards
Honorary Doctorate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2021
Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2018
Penagos Prize, MAPFRE Foundation, 2014
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University, 2013
Distinguished Visiting Humanist at the University of Rochester, New York, 2013
Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, 2010
Kyoto Prize, 2010
Honorary Doctorate, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2008
Honorary Doctorate, University of the Witwatersrand, 2004
Kaiserring Prize, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 2003
Sharjah Biennial 6 Prize, United Arab Emirates, April 2003
Residency as Master Artist, Civitella Ranieri Center, Italy, 2000
Carnegie Prize, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2000
Hugo Boss Prize (nomination), SoHo Guggenheim, New York, New York, 1998
Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1987
Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award, Johannesburg, South Africa for Mine,1991
Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award, Johannesburg, South Africa for Monument, 1990
Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York, New York for Salestalk, 1985
Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama, Cape Town, South Africa for Randlords and Rotgut, (collaboration with Junction Avenue Theatre Company), 1984
Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction, American Film Festival, New York, New York for Howl at the Moon, 1982
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
William Kentridge, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2023
Oh To Believe In Another World, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
In Praise of Shadows, MFA Houston, Texas
William Kentridge: Selected Prints and Posters, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2022
In Praise of Shadows, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
respirare, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Torino, Italy
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy, Royal Academy, London
William Kentridge: See For Yourself, The Warehouse, Milwaukee, WI
William Kentridge: That Which We Do Not Remember, M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021
From the Studio of William Kentridge, CRRI, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Torino, Italy
FINALLY MEMORY YIELDS, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
William Kentridge: Tapestries, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
William Kentridge: Image. Parole. Son, MUDAM Luxembourg
William Kentridge: Second Hand Reading, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, University of Wyoming Art Museum
2020
Storyteller: Works by William Kentridge, The Warehouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
William Kentridge, Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to
Work, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
William Kentridge: Waiting for the Sibyl and Other Histories, Lia Rumma, Milan
William Kentridge: 7 Fragments, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
William Kentridge, Un poème qui n’est pas le nôtre, LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille, France
2019
To What End? Midnight Moment Commission, Times Square, New York
Winterreise, Kyoto, Japan
Calder/Kentridge, Teatro Constanzi, Rome
William Kentridge: Why Should I Hesitate? Putting Drawings to Work /
Sculpture Zeitz MOCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
William Kentridge: That which we do not remember, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
William Kentridge: Ten Drawings for Projection, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own, Kunstmuseum, Basel
The Head & Load, Holland Festival, Amsterdam
William Kentridge. Ten Drawings For Projection, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge, Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris, France
ULISSE, Palermo, Italy
WOZZECK, Sydney Opera Premiere, Australia
Stereoscope (single presentation), Cushing Gallery, Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
2018
More Sweetly Play the Dance, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
O Sentimental Machine, Liebieghaus Skulpturesammlung, Frankfurt
Triumphs & Laments, Emerson Urban Arts, Media Art Gallery, Boston
Refusal of Time, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University Museum,
Connecticut; The Arthur Ross Gallery, the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
William Kentridge, Thick Time, The Whitworth Museum, Manchester
The Head & Load, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London; Ruhrtriennal, Germany; The Park Avenue, Armory, New York, NY
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), The New National Theater, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Right Into Her Arms, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Enough & More Than Enough, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Sint Janshospitaal, hosted by Musea Bruges, Bruges, Brussels
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Trout Gallery at the University of Dickinson, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Processione. I Riparazionisti/Procession. The Reparationists, Corte Est, OGR, Project by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Journey to the Moon, Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
William Kentridge, Städelsche Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie Frankfurt am Mein
Smoke Ashes, Fables: William Kentridge in Bruges, Musea Brugge-Sint Janshospitaal,Bruges
William Kentridge: Thick Time, Lo uisiana, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der Moderne and Rupertinum, Salzburg
Centre for the Less Good Idea Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
O Sentimental Machine, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Lulu, Teatro Dell’Opera, Rome
2016
More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Triumph and, Laments, Teverterno, Rome
William Kentridge, Thick Time, Whitechapel Gallery, London
More Sweetly Play the Dance, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton,
New York; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Lulu, English Natioanl Opera, London
No It Is!, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
2015
More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Notes Toward a Model Opera, Ullens Center, Beijing, China
Peripheral Thinking, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Refuse the Hour Performances, Cape Town City Hall, Design Indaba, South Africa;
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
The Refusal of Time, Iziko Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
William Kentridge: Fortuna. Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Ampara, Puebla, Mexico
EYE filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lulu, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Metropolitan Opera, New York
I am Not Me, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Ubu and the Truth Commission, Canadian Stage, Toronto
2014
The Refusal of Time & Other Faces, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert), Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Festival Aix-en-Provence
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Lincoln Center, New York
Drawing Lessons and Refuse the Hour, SchauspielHaus, Hamburg, Germany
The Refusal of Time, ICA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
The Refusal of Time, PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto, Japan
The Refusal of Time, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia
Néfertiti Tete-a-Tete, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia;
Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia
The Refusal of Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ubu & The Truth Commission, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Refusal of Time, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge, Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Lincoln Center, New York
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge, Lincoln Center, New York
William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery Project Space, New York
Tapestries, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg
2013
William Kentridge: Second-Hand Reading, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro; Fundação Iberê
Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK;
Midland Arts Center, Birmingham, UK; Quad, Derby, UK; University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle, UK
In Praise of Shadows: William Kentridge in the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Refuse the Hour, Festival Quartier d’Ete, Paris
Refuse the Hour, ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
Refuse the Hour, Hamburg, Germany
Paris Cinema Festival, Paris, France
Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, Japan
The Refusal of Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2012
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
William Kentridge: ¿No se unirá usted al baile?, CAC Málaga, Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Refuse the Hour, Teatro Argentina, Romaeuropa Festival 2012, Rome
William Kentridge, Da Capo, Chapelle du Miracle, Avignon
William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine, Tate Modern, London, UK
2011
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Other Faces, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, GCCC, Moscow
William Kentridge in the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Visual Musing, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
2010
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jeu de Paume,
Paris, France; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
William Kentridge, What We See and What We Know, National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
William Kentridge: Ambivalent Affinities, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
William Kentridge, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
William Kentridge, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
William Kentridge: Breathe, Dissolve, Return, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
South Africa Projections: Films by William Kentridge, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
William Kentridge – Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2009
William Kentridge, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; Norton
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
William Kentridge, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2008
(REPEAT) From the Beginning, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy
Seeing Double, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge: 10 Tapestries, Philadelphia Museum of Art
William Kentridge, Galerie Marian Goodman Paris, France
2007 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Black Box / Chambre Noir, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Magic Flute, designed and Directed by William Kentridge, Brooklyn Academy ofMusic, Brooklyn, New York
William Kentridge: What will come…has already come, Städel Museum Frankfurt,Germany; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Survey of Prints, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
2006
The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
2005
William Kentridge, Black Box, Deutsche Guggenheim
William Kentridge, Musee D’ Art Contemporain
William Kentridge, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
The Magic Flute, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium
Shadow Quartet, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
William Kentridge, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
William Kentridge, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy; K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf,
Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Musee d’Art
Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
The Return of Ulysses, John Jay College Theater, Lincoln Center, New York
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Musée de Valence, Valence, France; Musée-Château, Annecy, France
William Kentridge: Tide Table, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
William Kentridge, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
2003
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2002
William Kentridge, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Confessions, Festival d’Automne de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2001
William Kentridge, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; New
Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; South
African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1998-2001
WEIGHING…and WANTING, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California;
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis,Missouri; Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,Ontario; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Animations,P.S. 1, New York
2000
Procession: Sculpture by William Kentridge, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg,South Africa
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Retrospective of animated films, Internales Trickfilm-Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
Retrospective of animated films, New Zealand Film Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
1999
Stereoscope, Projects 68, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Sleeping on Glass, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
1999-98
William Kentridge, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany;
Neue Galerie Graz, Austria; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Centre de la Vieille Charité (Musées de Marseille), Marseilles, France; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria
1998
William Kentridge, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
1997
Applied Drawings, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994
Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1992
Drawings for Projection, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1991
William Kentridge: drawings, Gallery International, Cape Town, South Africa
1987
Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Grahamstown Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa;
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; University Art Galleries,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; University Art
Gallery Unisa, Pretoria, South Africa; Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Epílogo [Epílogue], Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Pasolini in Chiaroscuro,Nouveau Musée National De Monaco, Monaco
Life in Print: William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso, Remai Modern, Canada
2023
La Beauté du Diable, FFrac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
2022
Forms of Fragility, Rudolfinum Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
Le Songe d’Ulysse, Villa Carmignac, Ile de Porquerolles, France
Kinetismus: 100 Years of Art & Electricity, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Resist, again, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2021
Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
Uncovered: The Artists of Arion Press, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Picasso to Kentridge: Modern Masterpieces on Paper, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Le supermarché des images, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; OCT Modern Artistic Center, Shanghai, China
2020
Le supermarché des images, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Sculpture Milwaukee, Downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Centre, New York
Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
2019
OPEN AIR. Mines, Quarries and Earthly Exploitations, CDAN Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
Graphein, Fondation de l’Ecole Internationale de Geneve, Genève 1208, Switzerland
On Flower Power, The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Opéra Monde, La quête d’un art total, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
That Which is Not Drawn, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
2018
After Babel, annexM, Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
Tarefas Infinitas (Infinity Tasks), Research and Formation Centre facility provided by Sesc, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Timekeeping, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Kunst & Kohle, Reichtum: Schwarz ist Gold, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Mirror Mirror, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
2017
Center for the Less Good Idea Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
21, 39, Jeddah Arts, Saudi Arabia
Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Zeitz MOCAA, Capetown, South Africa and Wendy Fisher’s Foundation
Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France
Auto Vision: Media Art from Nam June Paik to Pipilotti Rist , Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Frans Masereel and contemporary art: images of resistance, Mu.ZEE-Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Belgium
Art/Afrique, Le nouvel atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2016
The Hilger Collection. Part 1: Works on Paper and Wood, Hilger Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Suspended Animation: Moving Images in Print, International Print Center of New York, NY
Café in, MuCem, Marseille, France
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in Letters and
Lines, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Kyoto, Japan
Flying over the Abyss, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece
Venice Biennale, Drawing from Triumphs and Laments Project in the Italian Pavilion
Künstlerr.ume 02, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Fireflies in the Night. Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
William Kentridge, Albrecht Dürer, Double Vision, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Threshold, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014
Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Palais des Beaux Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, München
Incredibly Close: Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
INSOUL, Parallel to the International Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media-
Art LINOLEUM 2014, Lavra Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Sweet Dew, Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of the Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Memory Palace, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
The Art of Truth: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Non Violence, The Menil Collection
And the Trees Went Forth to Seek a King, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
La guerra che verrà non è la prima 1914 – 2014, Museo Di Arte Modernae Contemporanea di Trento E Roeverto, Roverto, Italy
2013
DEEP FEELINGS. From antiquity to now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris
Paisaje. Revision de un genero (Landscape. A revision of a genre,) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico
Le Pont, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Marseille
Festival Paris Cinema, Forum des images, Paris
Bookhouse – La Forma Del Libro, MARCA – Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Black or White, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Arte, Dos Puntos – Barcelona Vive El Arte Contemporaneo, MACBA, Barcelona
As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts, Museum of Biblical Art, New York
Opole Lamas Film Festival, Opole, Poland
2012
Documenta (13),Kassel, Germany
ARTandPRESS, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (through
2013); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Thresholds, Liverpool Biennial
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life,
International Center of Photography, New York
Video Musics III: Floating Oceans, performance by Alexis Gideon with films by William Kentridge, New Museum, New York
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Oltre il muro, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Prism: Drawing from 1990 to 2012, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Tacita Dean, William Kentridge,…, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Atelier + Küche, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Revolution vs Revolution, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Perspective: A Selection of Projects in Print and Handmade Paper from The Brodsky
Center for Innovative Editions, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
Selected works, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2011
El intervalo luminoso: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Regress/Progess, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
William Kentridge & Ingeborg Lüscher, Campagne Premiere, Berlin
Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Absolute Installation, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Black and White, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
CON AMORE – Leif Djurhuus Collection, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
GRENZENLOS, Bilder – Skulpturen – Installationen, Kunstverein Aalen, Aalen Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
CUT SCHERENSCHNITTE. 20 aktuelle Positionen, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Be Alive! Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2010 Dystopia, UOliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung, South Africa; Jan Colle Galerij, Ghent, Belgium
Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Sicilia, Italy
Niet Normaal, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Wünsche und Erwerbungen – Zeitgenössische Zeichnung, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Le Meilleur des Mondes, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside–Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Mallas Calles (Bad Streets), Institut Valencia d’art modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Silent Revolution – A new presentation of the permanent collection, K20K21
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Le décor à l’envers, La Filature, Mulhouse, France
SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2010 – The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009
Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art,
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
The Puppet Show, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
In Praise of Shadows, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Animated Painting, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Play – Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past, Middlebury College
Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
2008
Not Alone: an international project of Make Art / Stop Aids, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Part I, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
New Prints 2009/Spring: Selected by Polly Apfelbaum, International Print Center New York (IPCNY), New York
Dystopia, Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa; Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Parades and Processions: Here comes everybody, Parasol unit, London, England
Medals of Dishonour, The British Museum, London, England
As Long As It Lasts, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Against Exclusion: 3rd Moscow Biennale, The Garage, Moscow, Russia
Order. Desire. Light. An exhibition of contemporary drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary
Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
The Puppet Show, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Peripheral Look and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Sydney Biennale: Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia
5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Turn and Widen, Seoul, South Korea
2007
Journey to the Moon, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Dibujos Animados (Cartoons), Fundacio ICO, Madrid Spain
GeoPoetics, screening Stereoscope, Centro Guerrero, Grenada, Spain,
Shadow Procession, Panasonic Screen, Times Square New York, curated by Creative Time, screened each 59th minute of the hour
StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary. Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
Zona Franca – Free Zone, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2006
Africa Remix, Art of a Continent, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Daumenkino: The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Take Two. Worlds and Views, MOMA, New York
Nine Drawings for Projection, 2005 MOMA, New York
Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy
The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Daumenkino: The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Take Two. Worlds and Views, MOMA, New York
Nine Drawings for Projection, 2005 MOMA, New York
2004
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Public/Private: Tumatanui/Tumataiti, 2nd Aukland Triennial, Aukland, New Zealand
The Divine Comedy, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Faces in the Crowd, Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel, London, England
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
New Identities: Contemporary South African Art, Museum Bochum, Germany
Meran 2nd Biennale: +Positive, Merano Arte, Meran, Italy
In Bed, Toyota Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Trouble, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
2003-04
Outlook, Athens, Greece
Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Synopsis III: Testimonies Between Fiction and Reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Animation Impulse: Video Art and the Generated Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
2003
Trauer, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Universes in Universe: Caravan, Sharjah International Biennial 6, United Arab Emirates
Banquet: Metabolism and Communication, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain,
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain and Museum for Contemporary Art/ZKM, Karlsrhue, Germany
Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Drawing the World, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Images of Society, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Reflection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
The Divine Comedy: Francisco Goya, Buster Keaton, William Kentridge, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Screen Memories: Imitation of Life, Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan
Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arte Salamanca, Spain
2000-01
Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Beyond Borders, Coninx Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Das Gedächtnis der Kunst: Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Historisches Museum in collaboration with Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Rotterdam is Many Cities, Rotterdam, Holland; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Animations, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2000
Illuminations: Contemporary Film and Video Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Insistent Memory: The Architecture of Time in Video, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
The self is something else. Art at the end of the 20th Century, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Shanghai Biennial (Shimizu-Toshio), New Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Outbound: Passages from the 90’s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Duration, 5 x Donnerstagabend, BüroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
La Beauté, Beauty in Fabula, Papal Palace, Avignon, France
Umedalen Skulptur, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Das Lied von der Erde, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
A Double View: Three Exhibitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
1999
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Sangre y Fuego (No Quarter Given), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Vaencia, Spain
La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Kunstwelten im dialog, Museum Ludwig Koln, Cologne, Germany
dAPERTutto, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
‘Rewind’ Fast Forward.ZA, Van Reekum Museum of Modern Art, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
6th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1998
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Hugo Boss Prize, SoHo Guggenheim, New York, New York
24th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997
Contemporary Art from South Africa (organized by Riksutstillinger, Oslo), Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Città/Natura: Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Villa Mazzanti, Rome, Italy
El individuo y su memoria, 6th Havana Biennial, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Documenta 10, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Ubu: ± 101, Observatory Museum, Standard Bank National Festival for the Arts, Grahamstown, South Africa; Gertrude Posel Gallery, Senate House, South Africa; University Art Galleries, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Art from South Africa, Talbot-Rice Gallery at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, AICA-Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lifetimes: Art from Southern Africa, Aktionsforum, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Delta, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1996
Common and Uncommon Ground, South African Art to Atlanta, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia
Colours, Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Faultlines: Inquiries into Truth & Reconciliation, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa
10th Sydney Biennial, Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney, Australia
Inklusion-Exklusion: Versuch einer neuen Kartografie der Kunst im Zetailter von Postkolonialism und Globaler Migration, Reininhaus, Graz, Austria
Don’t Mess with Mr. In-between: 15 South African Artists, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Campo 6, The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin,
Italy; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Festival des Dessins Animés (retrospective of artist’s animated films), Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
1995
1st Johannesburg Biennial, Africus, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa; Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.
On the Road – Works by 10 South African Artists, The Delfina Studio Trust, London, England
4th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Annecy International Film Festival (retrospective of artist’s animated films), Annecy,France
1993
Trackings: History as Memory, Document & Object. New Works by four South African Artists, Art First, London, England
Goodman in Grahamstown, Victoria Primary School, Grahamstown, South Africa
1992
Easing of the Passing (of the Hours): William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
45th Venice Biennial, Incroci del Sud: Affinities-Contemporary South African Art,
Fondazione Levi Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edinburgh International Film Festival (retrospective of artist’s films), Edinburgh, Scotland
Annecy International Festival of Animated Film, Annecy, France
Best of Annecy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Art Fair (premiere screening of Easing of the Passing (of the Hours)), Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa
1991
Gala, The Arts Association of Bellville, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990
Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Zabalaza Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, England
Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
South African Landscapes, The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1986
Three Hogarth Satires, University Art Galleries, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1982
American Film Festival, New York, New York
1981
National Graphic Show, South African Association of Art, Belville, Cape Town, South Africa