Born 1976 in Johannesburg; lives in Cape Town.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
This Must Be the Place, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
This Must Be the Place, The Hague Museum of Photography, The Netherlands
2011
Permanent Error, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Permanent Error, Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Permanent Error, ContactPhotography Festival, Toronto
Permanent Error, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome
Nollywood, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Nollywood, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland
Nollywood, Théâtre de La Ville, Paris
2010
Permanent Error, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town; Brodie Stevenson, Johannesburg
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland
Le Brass, Brussels
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Colette, Paris
The Hyena and Other Men, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Nollywood, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Nollywood, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Amsterdam
Nollywood, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2009
Nollywood, Galleria Extraspazio, Rome
Selected Works, Tinglado 2, Tarragona, Spain
Nollywood, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Nollywood, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2008
The Hyena and Other Men, FOAM_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
God’s Time is the Best, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam
Portraits, Fotogallery, Cardiff
Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Nollywood, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg
WORKS 2002-2007, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
Portraits, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2007
The Hyena and Other Men, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Messina/Musina, Extraspazio, Rome
Messina/ Musina, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2009, Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2009, Monument Gallery, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Looking Aside, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Presence, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Looking Aside, Warren Siebrits Contemporary, Johannesburg
Presence, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
2004
The Albino Project, Fabrica Features, Lisbon
The Albino Project, Museum of Modern Art, Rome
Rwanda 2004: Partial Remains and Personal Affects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Africa, There and Back, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town
Paraty em Foco photography festival, Brazil
Urban Lives, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, California
All Cannibals, Me Collectors Room, Berlin
Beguiling: The Self and the Subject, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
Il corpo metafora di un’esperienza, CIAC Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa, Stellenbosch University Art Museum, Stellenbosch
ARS 11, Kiasma, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, V&A Museum, London
Possible Cities: Africa in Photography and Video, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
For a Sustainable World, Les Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial, Mali
2010
Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Provincia di Modena, Italy
Fototage Trier, Berlin
Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Disquieting Images, Triennale di Milano, Italy
PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki
This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany
After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Atri, Italy
Lie of the Land, Iziko Old Town House Museum, Cape Town; Sanlam Gallery, Bellville
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
Halakasha!, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
Room for Justice, Avocats Sans Frontières, Antwerp Court House, Belgium
2009
Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography, Bamako, Mali
Creating Identity: Portraits today, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
Animalism, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Three Stories, CNA (Centre National de l’Audiovisuel), Luxembourg
Unbounded: New art for a new century, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Stigmata, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva
2008
Room for Justice, Palais de Justice, Brussels; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Street & Studio: An urban history of photography, Tate Modern, London
Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Presumed Innocence: Photographic perspectives of children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts
2007
Lumo ‘07 - ‘us’, 7th International Triennial of Photography, Finland
Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 1, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, UK
An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
In Your Face, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
Family Relation, Warren Siebrits, Johannesburg
Faccia A Faccia: Il nouvo ritratto fotografico, FORMA, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan
Reality Check: Contemporary art photography from South Africa 2007, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany
Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
2006
South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Como Viver Junto, 27th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago de Chile, Chile
Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Pingyao International Photographic Festival (PIP), China
Tour - Cape Town to Miami, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
Black, Brown and White, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Nie Meer, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
Rivers of Suffering, Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut
2005
Re:Generation: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Aperture Gallery, New York
2003
Staged Realities - The Studio in African Photography, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
From Chaos to Order and Back, DDD Gallery, Osaka / Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
2002
Margin, The Cold Room Photographic Gallery, Cape Town
Positions of South African Photography - Today, OMC Galerie, Düsseldorf
2001
New South African Art, JAK Gallery, London
AWARDS
2012
Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2011
Seydou Keita Award, 9th Rencontres de Bamako African
Photography Biennial
Fotografia - The Road to Contemporary Art Awrd, Rome
Young Director Award, Cannes Lions Festival
2008
Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles Festival
KLM Paul Huf Award, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
2007
Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art
2006
First prize, Portraits section, World Press Photo
Getty Images Young Photographer Award
COLLECTIONS
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
Cincinnati Art Museum
Daimler Art Collection
Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt
Ethnologische Museum, Berlin
FNAC, France
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Johanesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
LaSalle Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
MOMA, New York
MUDAM, Luxembourg
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
MUSAC_Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
North Carolina Museum of Art
Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
