ZWELETHU MTHETHWA [ARTIST]

Born in Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Lives and works in Cape Town, South  Africa


Biographical details:
2000 Research Associate at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
1994-1999 Lecturer of Photography and Drawing at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
1991-1993 Customer Projects Co-ordinator for Truworths
1989 Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
1988-1989 Assistant Co-ordinator Children’s Project for Community Arts Project
1986-1987 Cultural Organiser for Department of Education and Training
1985 Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT     
1984 Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT

Solo  Exhibitions:
2008 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2006 Gold Miners, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2005 Women in Private Spaces, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Lines of Negotiation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Association For Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 New Works Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2003 Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa photographs, Cleveland Museum, Ohio, USA.
2002 Gallery Hengevoss-Durkop, Hamburg, Germany
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis, MO - USA
2002 Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy
2001 Rebirth, Art Unlimited, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Centre National de la Photographie, curated by Régis Durand, Paris, France
2001 Mother & Child, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy
2001 Private Spaces, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, curated by Teresa Macrì and Maria Grazia Tolomeo, Roma, Italy
2000 Rebirth, project room, FIAC Paris, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Jack Shainman Gallery , New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
1999 Project Room, Art Koln, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Koln, Germany
1999 Galerie Hengevoss & Jensen, Triennale der photographie, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Art Chicago/ At Navy Pier, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1999 Project Room, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1998 Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano, Italy
1999 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1992 Gallery de Lyons, Cape Town, South Africa
1991 African Arts Centre, Durban, South Africa
1991 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
1987 College Union, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1986 S.A. Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

Group Exhibitions:
2007 Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006 Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan and
2006 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden    
2006 Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Whole World is Rotten, The Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2006 Black, Brown & White, Kunsthalle Vienna
2005 The Forest Politics, Poetics, and Practice, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, North Carolina
2005 Green to Green and Beyond, Gallery W 52, New York, NY
2005 A Passion for Pictures, North Carolina Museum of Art
2005 Imprints: Works on paper, Axis Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian         College, Clinton, SC
2005 The Whole World is Rotten, Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of PAA Joe, organized by Claude             Simard at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Venice Biennale 51st International Art Exhibition, curated by Maria de Corral And Rosa Martinez, Venice, Italy
2005 Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London, UK and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 Emergencies, at the Museo de Arte Contemporeneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC Leon, Spain
2005 New Work/New Acquisitions, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Ann Temkin, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
2004/5 Prague Biennale
2004/5 Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell,         curated by Philip Brookman and Jacquelyn Days Serwer, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, U.S.A.
2004 Passaporto, Le Meridien Lingotto Art & Tech, Torino, Italy.
2004 Ipermercati dell’Arte, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
2004 Made in Africa Fotografia, Musei di Porta Romana, Milano, March, Italy
2004 Festival della Fotografia, British Academy, Roma, April, Italy.
2004 Festival Couleur Café, curated by Hernau Bertiau, Tour et Taxis, Bruxelles, May, Belgium
2004 New Identities, Contemporary South African Art, curated by Dr Golinski and Hiekisch-Picardi. Bochum Museum,             Bochum, Germany
2004 Africa Remix – curators: Simon Njami, Jean-Hubert Martin, David Elliot, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Roger Malbert and Els van der Plas, Dusseldorf Museum Kunst Palast - 24 July  - 7 November 2004, Hayward Gallery, London – 10 February – 17 April 2005, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 15 May – 20 August 2005, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, June – September 2006
2004 Sao Paulo Biennale, curated by Alfons Hug, Simon Njami.
2004 Postcards from Cuba – a selection from the 8th Habana Biennale, curated by Selene Wendt, Oslo, Norway, Henie Onstad Kunstenter
2004 Vth African Photography Encounters in Bamako, Mali, curated by Simon Njami and Moussa Konate
2004 Vth Bamako Encounters, “Afritudine”, artistic director, Simon Njami – Musei di Porta Romama / Galleria Arteutopia, Italy; “Grenier a sel” in Honfleur,
2004 France; Kornhausforum, Berne, Switzerland
2003/4 The Gift: Generous Offering, Threatening Hospitality, organised by independent Curators International and travelling to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Govett-Brewtser Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
2003 Strangers Photography Triennale, International Centre for Photography, New York, USA, curated by Brian Wallis.
2003 Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Lauri Firstenberg Portraiture (Every picture tells a story), Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2003 Body And The Archive, Artist’s Space, New York curated by Lauri Firstenberg
2003 Direction des Vth African Photography Encounters, Bamako, Mali, curated by Simon Njami.
2003 Sharjah International Biennale, curated by Hoor Al-Qasimi and Peter Lewis
2003 Istanbul Biennale, curated by Dan Cameron
2003 8Th Havana Biennale
2002 Fuori Uso 2002, Ferrotel, Pescara Italy curated by Teresa Macri, Mario Codognato and Sandra Chia.
2002 New Aquasitions – New works, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Cultural Crossing, Numark Gallery, Washington DC
2002 In Situ: Portraits of People at Home, curated by Ashley Kistler. Photographs by Taylor Dabney, Tom Hunter and Zwelethu Mthethwa. Hand Workshop Art Centre, Richmond, Virginia USA
2002 Dis/location, curated by Daniela Tilkin, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
2002 Centro Cultural de Maia, O'Porto, Portugal
2002 TRADE - Wares, ways and values in world trade today, curated by Thomas Seelig,  Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Holland
2002 The Gift, generous offering, threatening hospitalities -Scottsdale Museum di Scottsdale, Arizona,  USA
2002 Sudafrica: la pittura, la fotografia, il cinema, Centro Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
2002 The Short Century, Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, curated by Okwui Enwezor, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2002 Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, travelling exhibition to:
• Schrin Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool - U.K.
2002 Tracing the Rainbow, travelling exhibition to:
• Kunst Raum Sylt-Quelle, Germany
• Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg/Necktar, Germany
2002 Videoarte Africana, curated by Marcel Odenbach, 25° Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2002 Untitled, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Usa
2001 Cutting Edge, ARCO Madrid, Marco Noire Contemporary Art
2001 The Short Century, Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, curated by Okwui Enwezor, travelling to:
• Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL - USA
• PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY - USA
2001 Africa Today:The Artist and the City, curated by Pep Subiros, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2001 TRADE - Wares, ways and values in world trade today, curated by Thomas Seelig, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Germany
2001 Dis/location, curated by Daniela Tilkin, PhotoEspana 2001, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
2001 The Gift, generous offering, threating hospitalities, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Antonio Somaini, travelling to:
• Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
• Palazzo Candiolo, Venice, Italy
• San Francisco, CA - USA
+ Storie contemporanee, curated by Paola Tognon, Museo Civico di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2001 I Love NY, benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2001 A Passion for Art The Disaronno Originale Photography Collection, curated by Anne Ellegood, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Lorie Mertes, Dominic Molon, traveling to:
• Miami Art Museum, Miami FL
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2001 Boomerang: Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
2000 Paris pour escale, curated by Laurence Bossé, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia
2000 A.r.e.a. 2000, curated by  Gavin Younge, Kjarvaisstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Rosa Martinez, Pusan, Korea
2000 L'Afrique à jour in collaboration with Biennale Dakar 2000, AFAA, Lille, France
2000 Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporanea, curated by Solange Oliveira Farkas and  Clive Kellner, VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brasil
2000 Home, curated by Trevor Smith, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 Mirades Impúdiques, curated   by Rosa Olivares and Marta Gili, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Arts & Human Rights,  Kwangju International Biennale, curated by  Ichiro Hariu, Seoul, Korea
2000 Dire Aids- Say Aids, curated by G. Cochrane, G. Verzotti, E. Cucco, A. Vettese, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
2000 Foto Biennale Rotterdam, curated by Clive Kellner, Rotterdam, Holland
2000 Biennale Dakar, curated by Hans Bogatzke,  Dakar, Senegal
2000 Simultaneous, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York - USA
2000 Overnight to Many Cities: Travel and Tourism at Home and Away, curated by Collier Schorr, 303 Gallery, New York - USA
1999 Fondazione Bevilacqua (avec Shirin Neshat), curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Venezia, Italy
1999 Camouflage, Hans Bogatzke Collection of Contemporary African Art, Bruxelles, Belgique
1999 Il sentimento del 2000, Triennale di Milano- Photomedia Europe 1999, Milano, Italy
1999 Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, Museum for African Art New York, New York, USA travelling to:
• Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
• Iris & B. Gerald Canto Center For Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
• The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
South meets West, curated by Bernard Fibicher, The National Museum Accra, Ghana. Travelling to:
• Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland,
1999 Toward-Transit, New visual languages in South Africa, Pro Helvetia Art Council of Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 Photoespana 99: images for dignity, curated by Miguel Angel Invarato, Madrid, Spain              
1999 Site Santa Fe: looking for a place, curated by Rosa Martinez, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Göteborgs Konstmuseum, curated by Lena Boethius, Göteborg, Sweden
Rewind fast forward.Za.,curated by Bozzie Rabie,Van Reekum Museum in Apeldoorn, Holland
1999 Project Conflux, Tendances Mikado, Luxembourg
1998 Houston Photo Festival, Texas, USA
1998 The Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Sasol Art Collection
1998 A History of African Photography, La Maison Europeenne de la Photography, Paris, France
1998 Africa, Africa, curated by Toshio Shimizu, Tobu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Dakar Biennale, Senegal
1998 Architecture, apartheid and after, curated by Hilton Judin, Van Reekum Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
1998 Democracy’s Images photographs and visual art after apartheid, Bildmuseet, Sweden
1998 Africa by Africa, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, Great Britain
1998 Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening,
Center for Curatorial Studies. Bard Collegue, curated by Francesco Bonami, Annandale-on-Huston, NY
1997 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1997 Lift Off, Goodman Gallery, Joannesburg, South Africa
1997 Photo Syntesis-Contemporary South African Photography, Grahamstown Art Festival
1997 La Boheme: Noir, Primart Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya, Johannesburg Biennale, EletricWorkshop, Gauteng, South Africa
1997 Association for Visual Arts, CRAM, Cape Town, South Africa
1996 Adelson Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
1995 World Economic Forum Group Show, Davos, Switzerland
1995 Crosscurrents, Very Special Arts Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
1995 Africa 95, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Great Britain and Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 Johannesburg Biennal, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995 S.A. Association of Arts-3 Person Show, Cape Town, South Africa
1994 Crosscurrents, S.A.artists group show, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Beach
1994 S.A.  artists, Ottobrunn, Germany
1993 Grand Prix International d’Arts Plastiques, International         Visual Arts, Nice, France
1993 Biennale of Illustration Bratislava, Slovan Republic
1993 Galerie de Lyons, Cape Town, South Africa
1993 Abidjan Biennale, Ivory Coast, South Africa   
1991 S.A. Associationof Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
1991 Daljosafat Arts Centre, Paarl, South Africa
1990 NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1989 Memorial Art Museum, Rochester, NY
1988 Bethune Gallery, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, NY
1988 Rainbow Gallery, S.U.N.Y. Brockport, NY
1986 S.A. association of Arts , Cape Town, South Africa
1986 Elisabeth Sneddon Theatre, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
1985 Michaelis Gallery, University , Cape Town, South Africa

Collections:
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, National Museum of African Art (Washington DC), New Museum, New York, The Corcoran Museum Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Daimler Chrysler Collection, Wooltru (Cape Town), Cape Department of Education Trust, Art Gallery Durban, Tatham Art Gallery (Pietermaritzburg), Gilbey’s Ltd., Metropolitan Life, South African Breweries, Old Mutual, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery (North Western University), University of the Witwatersrand, Gencor S.A. Ltd., University of South Africa, S.A. Embassy (Washington D.C. Usa), Trasnet Ldt., Pretoria Art Museum, Sanlam, Johannesburg Art Gallery, S.A. Reserve Bank, Herdboys, Rand Merchant Bank, Smithsonian Museum (Washington D.C. Usa), Arco Foundation (Madrid), Bouwond (Holland), Kunsthalle Hamburg (Germany), Boland Bank PKS (South Africa), LA County Museum (USA), Siemens Ltd (South Africa), ABSA Bank ( South Africa), MTN collection (South Africa), Vodacom
(South Africa), JSE - Stock Exchange ( South Africa), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Samuel Harn Museum, Miami (Usa), South Africa, National Gallery, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg Germany, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, LeSalle Bank, Chicago, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gugenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A., Absolut International Collection, Sweden.

Special Projects:
• Futurniture (Sweden)
• Ministère Culture Communication (France)
• Roggebaai Tourism Precinct – Review Committee Member
• Nobel Square – Technical Committee Member
• Commission for the international Absolut Collection – “Absolut Zwelethu”

Collections:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The New Museum, New York, NY
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, North Western University
University of South Africa
Durban Art Gallery
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
University of the Witwatersrand
South African Embassy, Washington D.C.
Durban, Cape Town, New York, Sasol
Cape Department of Education Trust
Arco Foundation, Madrid
Gilbey's Ltd.
Metropolitan Life
South African Breweries
Old Mutual
Gencor S.A. Ltd.
Transnet Ltd.
Sanlam
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
S.A. Reserve Bank
Herdboys
Rand Merchant Bank
Wooltru, Cape Town, South Africa
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Bouwond
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
LaSalle Bank, Chicago, IL
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Madrid, Spain
Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

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