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

 

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, Parsis, 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. ÄŒiurlionis 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

 

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