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CV
Born in Umlazi, Durban. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Completed Advanced Photography course at Market Photo Workshop, Newtown, 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | Faces and Phases, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg Like a Virgin (two-person exhibition), CCA Lagos, Nigeria |
| 2007 | Being, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2006 | Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna |
| 2004 | Visual Sexuality, as part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK Domestic, Goetheon Main, Johannesburg Innovative Women, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Rebelle: Kunst & Feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands Museion Collection: Presentation of the new acquisitions , Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy Gender, (Trans) Gender and (De) Gendered, a special project of the Havana Biennale, Cuba I bought me a cat, MiCamera, Milan Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography |
| 2008 | Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and other venues in the US .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena Perfect Lovers, ArtExtra, Johannesburg Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan |
| 2007 | Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Graz Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and other venues, Germany Cape '07, Lookout Hill, Khayelitha, Cape Town |
| 2006 | Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town |
| 2005 | South African art 1848 - now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town A Lesson from History, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn Subject to Change, South African National Gallery, Cape Town Month of Photography, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Erotic Blenders, Toronto, Canada |
| 2004 | Young Vision 2004, Alliance Fran?aise, Johannesburg Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town Pride Week, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Gender & Visuality Conference, University of the Western Cape Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable? (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Museum Africa, Johannesburg Urban Life, (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 2003 | Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg Women Arts Festival, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg |
| 2002 | Women Arts Festival, Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna |
AWARDS
| 2009 |
Jean-paul Blachere award, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography Casa Africa award for the best female photographer, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography Fanny Ann Eddy accolade by the International Resource Network in Africa (IRN-Africa) |
| 2005 | Tollman Award LGBTI Art & Culture Award |
RESIDENCIES
| 2009 | Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Thami Mnyele Artist-in-Residence, Amsterdam, Nederlandse |
FELLOWSHIPS
| 2006 | BHP Billiton/ Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship |
FILM
| 2007 | Being Mum, documentary on black lesbian mothers |
| 2005 | Enraged by a picture, film screenings at the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian film festival, various venues |
CONFERENCES
| 2007 | International Resource Network (IRN), Africa Meeting, Dakar, Senegal |
| 2006 | African Feminist Forum, Ghana, Accra Black Autonomy, ADEFRA, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Sexual Rights and Moral Panics, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS) conference, San Francisco State University, California World Beyond Words (part of Writing African Women conference at the University of the Western Cape), Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town Doing Gender, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape |
| 2003 | Sex & Secrecy, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture & Society (IASSCS) Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg |
PUBLICATIONS
| Zanele Muholi's photographs have appeared in South African gay and feminist publications including: Womyn, Exit and Agenda (issues 61 and 63); on Behind the Mask (www.mask.org.za) and the GALA (Gay and Lesbian Archives) website (www.gala.wits.ac.za) Covers of books including: An ABC of LGBTI: A resource guide (published by the Joint Working Group, Johannesburg, 2005), Balancing Act and Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives edited by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa (GALA and Jacana, Johannesburg, 2005) The Gender of Psychology, 2006, Shefer, T., Boonzaier F. and Kiguwa P. (ed) Other Publications:
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