Zanele Muholi

Group Exhibitions

2022

• "Afro-Atlantic Histories", LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
• "Afro-Atlantic Histories", National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA

2021

• "Afro-Atlantic Histories", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
• "Interior Infinite", The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
• "THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED", ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Red Clay, Ghana

2020

• "Crossing Views", Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
• "African Cosmologies", Fotofest Biennial 2020, Houston, USA
• Sydney Biennale 2020, Sydney, Australia

2019

• "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now", Guggenheim, New York, USA
• "The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture", The Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, Canada
• "African Spirit", Yossi Milo, New York, USA
• "Kiss My Genders", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
• "Limise", Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, Germany
• "Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall", Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
• "May You Live in Interesting Times", La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• "Mirrors – The Reflected Self", Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland
• "Ikhono LaseNatali", KwaZulu Natal Society of the Arts, Durban, South Africa
• "ULTRAVIOLETA: Didàcticas desde los feminismos (ULTRAVIOLET: teachings from feminism)", Casa de la Mujer, Zargoza, Spain
• "Lignes de views – une exposition de légendes (Lines of Lives – an exhibition of legends)", Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
• "Yithi Laba", Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Anon", Pop-up Art Place, Cape Town, South Africa

2018

• "Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life", Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
• "Recent Histories / Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Les uns envers les autres", Galerie Wanted, Paris, France
• "A Sheet of Paper Can Become a Knife", Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases", The Charleston Trust, Bloomsbury, UK
• "Post-conflict. Reframing a dialogue", GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival, Getxo, Spain
• "Both, and", Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean", Manifesta 12 Collateral Events, Palermo, Italy
• "Continental Drift", Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
• "Talisman in the Age of Difference", Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
• "Queering the Gaze", alpha nova & galerie future, Berlin, Germany
• "From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present", Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada
• "Not a Single Story", Nirox Sculpture Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "In their Own Form", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
• "O Triângulo Atlântico", 11th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• "Mistaken Identities: Images of Gender and Transformation", The Walther Collection Project Space, New York, USA
• "Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials", Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University), Philadelphia, USA
• "African Art Against the State", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamsburg, USA
• "Multiple Medium: Photographs from the Collection", Cinncinati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
• "Vigilence, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes", Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
• "Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection", Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, USA

2017

• "The South African Pavillion without Walls", performa 17, New York, USA
• "Traversées Ren@rde", Transpalette Centre d’Art, Bourges, France
• "Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
• "The Photographic I – Other Pictures", S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
• "Structures of Identity", Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
• "Madgermanes / Mystery Of Foreign Affairs", Schwerin, Germany
• "When the Heavens Meet the Earth: Selected Works from the Sina Jina Collection of Contemporary Art", Heong Gallery (Downing College), Cambridge, USA
• "A Painting Today", Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier", Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
• 5th Kyotographie International Photography Festival, Kyoto, Japan
• "INTIMACY IS POLITICAL. Sex, gender, language, power", Centro Cultural Metropoliano, Quito, Ecuador
• "THE FACE, A Search for Clues", Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
• "A Short History of South African Photography", Fotografia Europea 2017, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• "Rearranging Boundaries", Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria, Australia
• "Other Side: Art, Object, Self", The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
• "Selected", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
• "Over the Rainbow", Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, USA
• "If You Were in My Body", FIERMAN, New York, USA
• "Another Way of Telling: Women Photographers from the Collection", Levy Gallery (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Philadelphia, USA

2016

• "Supporting Alternative Visions", Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Neriri Kiruru Harara", SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul (Seoul Museum of Art), South Korea
• "The Quiet Violence of Dreams", Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "The Order of Things", The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
• "Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude", Busan Biennale (KISWIRE Suyeong factory), Busan, South Korea
• "Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life", Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
• "I Love You Sugar Kane", Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
• "Reality of My Surroundings", Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
• "African Art Against the State", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
• "Mina/Meg, Kunstplass 10", Kulturhistorisk Museum (Universitetet i Oslo), Oslo, Norway
• "Systematically Open? New forms of production of the contemporary image", LUMA: Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
• "Shores Like You", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Contemporary South African Art", Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
• "Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-á-tête", Aperture, New York, USA
• "Political Intent and Beyond Limit", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• "Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design", Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• "Où poser la tête?", Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

2015

• "Où poser la tête?", FRAC Réunion, Reunion Island
• "After Eden/Après Eden - The Walther Collection", La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
• "Through Women's Eyes/Sguardo di Donna", Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
• "Material Matters: New Art from Africa", Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
• "DLA Piper Series: Constellations", Tate Liverpool, UK
• "Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design", Guggenheim Bibao, Spain
• "Album de Familia", Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• "Looking Woman", Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
• "Malmo Fotobiennale", Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Sweden
• "Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• "Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Tše Dintši/Abundance", Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Album de Familia", Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• "The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists On Screen", Tate Modern, London, UK
• "History, Art, Architecture and Design: 80s to Today", Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
• "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize", The Photographers Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
• "Representations of Otherness and Resistance", Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa
• "Love, Life and Loss", Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, USA
• "Homosexuality_ies", The Schwules Museum & the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Germany
• "Making Africa: A Contnent of Contemporary Design", Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
• "The young contemporary photographers from Africa", Institution Library Mario de Andrade, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• "The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection", The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
• "Visual Activism", Midsumma Festival, Melbourne, Australia
• "Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship", Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, USA
• "The Lesbian Spring Festival", Toulouse, France
• "Contemporary Activism", Malmö Foto Biennale, Malmö, Sweden
• "ReSignifications", New York University, Florence, Italy
• "Contact", Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy

2014

• "Residual: traces of the black body", New Art Exchange, UK
• "The Institute of Sexology", The Wellcome Collection, London, UK
• "Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History", Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, USA
• "SOUTH3: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico & South Africa", Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, Australia
• "Looking Back", Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa
• "XIII edizione: PORTRAIT", Fotografia festival (MACRO Museum), Rome, Italy
• "Typology, Taxonomy and Seriality: Photography from The Walther Collection", Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
• "Exotic symmetric", Les Abattoirs : Museum of Modern Art and Frac Midi-Pyrénées, France
• "Queering the International", Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
• "PORT", Queer Arts Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
• "Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood", Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
• "From Sitting to Selfie: 300 years of South African Portraits", Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender", BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
• "After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality", Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, USA
• "Contemporary Art/South Africa", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
• "Precarious Imaging: Visibility Surrounding African Queerness", Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
• "Faces and Phases", Venice and Trento Pride, Palazzo Trentini, Italy
• "Haute Africa", Fotofestival, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
• "El cuerpo queer, la construcción de la memoria", Arte Actual - FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador
• "Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
• "Apartheid & After", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change", Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa

2013

• "WELT − BILDER 5 / WORLD IMAGES 5", Helmhaus, ZuA
• "Transitions - Social Landscape Project", Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "The Progress of Love", Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Time, Place and the Camera: Photographs at Work", Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo
• "A Necessary Theatre", Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
• "Discovery Award 2012 exhibition", Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
• "The Next Generation", Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands
• "Trans_forming politics/Politicizing Trans", Galerie Funke, Berlin, Germany
• "tête-á-tête", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
• "Africa: See You, See Me", Nike Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria; The National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach", University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
• "Mine - A selection of films by SA artists", Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE

2011

• "What we talk about when we talk about love", Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Photography I: Snapshots of a Generation", Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
• "Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard Misrach", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• "Lesbians Seeing Lesbians", Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, USA
• "Appropriated Landscapes", Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
• Look 11 Photography Festival, Liverpool, UK
• "Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa", Stellenbosch University Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
• "Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African photography", V&A Museum, London, UK
• "Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers", Royal Festival Hall, London, UK; Norwich University College of the Arts Gallery, Norwich, UK; and other venues in the UK
• "Africa: See You, See Me", Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Florence, Italy; Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy
• "20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation", CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Africa.es 7 miradas africanas sobre espana", Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
• "Mine - A selection of films by SA artists", Iwalewa-Haus (University of Bayreuth), Bayreuth, Germany

2010

• "Summer 2010/11", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "PEEKABOO - Current South Africa", Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• "Africa: See Me, See You", Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
• "Uprooting the Gaze: Foreign places familiar patterns", Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK
• "Position as Desired - Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection", ROM, Toronto, Canada
• Afrovibes festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• "Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity", Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
• "This is Our Time", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "After A, Photo Notes on South Africa", Atri Reportage Festival, Italy
• "...for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices", MU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• "Halakasha!", Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Mosaïque de photos", Chartres, France
• "Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art", Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
• "1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective", Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• "I am not afraid: The Market Photo Workshop", Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Swallow My Pride", Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
• "In Between", Allegheny College, Meadville, USA

2009

• "A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art", Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
• "Domestic", GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Innovative Women", Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Undercover: Performing and transforming black female identities", Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
• "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, Italy
• "Les Rencontres de Bamako", Biennial of African Photography, Mali

2008

• Summer 2008/9: Projects", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Make Art/Stop AIDS", Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• "I am not afraid. The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg" Camera Austria (Kunsthaus Graz), Graz, Austria
• "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body", Hood Museum (Dartmouth College), Hanover, USA; and other venues in the US
• ".za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica", Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
• "Perfect Lovers", ArtExtra, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Body Work", Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy

2007

• Summer 2007/8", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg", Camera Austria (Kunsthaus Graz), Graz, Austria
• "Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; and other venues in Germany
• "Cape '07", Lookout Hill (Khayelitha), Cape Town, South Africa

2006

• Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• "South African Art Now", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Second to None", South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2005

• South African art 1848 - now", Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• "A Lesson from History", Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
• "Subject to Change", South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Month of Photography", Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Erotic Blenders", Toronto, Canada

2004

• Young Vision 2004", Alliance Française, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town, South Africa
• "Pride Week", Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Gender & Visuality Conference", University of the Western Cape, South Africa
• "Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable?", Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Urban Life", Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003

• Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?", Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
• "Women Arts Festival", Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa

2002

• Women Arts Festival", Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna, South Africa