1955 Born in Johannesburg, South Africa
EDUCATION
1973-1976 University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1976-1978 Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
1981-1982 École Jacques LeCoq, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 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, Italy
William Kentridge: Why Should I Hesitate? Putting Drawings to Work /
Sculpture, Zeitz MOCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
William Kentridge: That which we do not remember, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
William Kentridge: Ten Drawings for Projection, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
The Head & Load, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
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, RI
2018 More Sweetly Play the Dance, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
O Sentimental Machine, Liebieghaus Skulpturesammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Triumphs & Laments, Emerson Urban Arts, Media Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Refusal of Time, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University Museum,
CT; The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, PA
William Kentridge, Thick Time, The Whitworth Museum, Manchester, England
The Head & Load, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London; Ruhrtriennale, 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, Belgium
William Kentridge: Universal Archive, Trout Gallery, University of Dickinson,
Carlisle, PA
Processione. Riparazionisti (Procession. The Reparationists), Corte Est, OGR, Project by Castello di
Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy
Journey to the Moon, Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, LA
William Kentridge, Städelsche Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie Frankfurt am Mein, Germany
Smoke Ashes, Fables: William Kentridge in Bruges, Musea Brugge-Sint Janshospitaal,Bruges, Belgium
William Kentridge: Thick Time, Louisiana, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der
Moderne and Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Centre for the Less Good Idea Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
O Sentimental Machine, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Lulu, Teatro Dell’Opera, Rome, Italy
2016 More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Triumphs, Laments and Other Processions, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
William Kentridge, Thick Time, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
More Sweetly Play the Dance, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
The Refusal of Time, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
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, NY
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico;
Museo Ampara, Puebla, Mexico
EYE filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lulu, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Metropolitan Opera, NY
Nose, 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; travelled to: Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, Festival Aix-en-Provence, France; Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Drawing Lessons and Refuse the Hour, SchauspielHaus, Hamburg, Germany
The Refusal of Time, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
The Refusal of Time, PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto, Japan
The Refusal of Time, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia
Néfertit Tete-a-Tete, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge, Bargello Museum, Florence,Italy
William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
Tapestries, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 William Kentridge: Second-Hand Reading, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
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, NY
Refuse the Hour, Festival Quartier d'Ete, Paris, France
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, NY
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, Italy
William Kentridge, Da Capo, Chapelle du Miracle, Avignon, France
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, NY
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, GCCC, Moscow, Russia
William Kentridge in the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest,
Budapest, Hungary
William Kentridge: New Media Series, 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, IL
William Kentridge, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
William Kentridge: Breathe, Dissolve, Return, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
South Africa Projections: Films by William Kentridge, The Jewish Museum of New York, N
William Kentridge, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2009 William Kentridge, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Norton Museum of Art,
West Palm Beach, FL
William Kentridge, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2008 (REPEAT) From the Beginning, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy
Seeing Double, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
William Kentridge: 10 Tapestries, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
William Kentridge, Galerie Marian Goodman Paris, France
07-08 William Kentridge; Notations, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Black Box / Chambre Noir, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden
The Magic Flute, designed and Directed by William Kentridge, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, NY
William Kentridge: What will come…has already come, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Germany;
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Survey of Prints, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2006 The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections, Marian Goodman Gallery,
New York, NY
William Kentridge, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
2005 William Kentridge, Black Box, The Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
William Kentridge, Musee D' Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
William Kentridge, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
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, NY
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 de Montreal, Canada
The Return of Ulysses, John Jay College Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY;
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
02-03 William Kentridge, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Confessions, Festival d’Automne de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
01-02 William Kentridge, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; South African
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2000 The Self is Something Else, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
A Double View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Third Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Vertical Painting, P.S.1, New York, NY
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
NSISTENT MEMORY: THE Architecture of Time in Video, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, FL
La Beaute, Beauty in Fabula, Papal Palace Avignon, Rome, Italy
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
99-98 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, NY
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
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, Italy
Opéra Monde, La quête d’un art total, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
That Which is Not Drawn, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England
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, NJ
Kunst & Kohle, Reichtum: Schwarz ist Gold, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Mirror Mirror, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
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, Australia
Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France
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, Venice, Italy
Künstlerraume 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, Germany
Threshold, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014 Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Palais des Beaux Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium;
Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, Germany
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, OH
Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins
College, Winter Park, FL
The Art of Truth: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Non Violence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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
Contemporaneadi 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, France
Festival Paris Cinema, Forum des images, Paris, France
Bookhouse – La Forma Del Libro, MARCA – Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Black or White, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands
Arte, Dos Puntos – Barcelona Vive El Arte Contemporaneo, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts, Museum
of Biblical Art, New York, NY
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, Germany
Thresholds, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Center of
Photography, New York, NY
Video Music III: Floating Oceans, performance by Alexis Gideon with films by
William Kentridge, New Museum, New York, NY
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, France
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, Germany
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, Germany
Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Cut Scherenschnitte. 20 aktuelle Positionen, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten,
Klagenfurt, Austria
Be Alive!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Dystopia, Oliewenhuis 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, The Netherlands
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Wünsche und Erwerbungen - Zeitgenössische Zeichnung, Museum Folkwang
Essen, Essen, Germany
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside–Out, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL
Mallas Calles (Bad Streets), Institut Valencia d’art modern, 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, NM
2009 Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art, Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
The Puppet Show, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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, VT
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), NY
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, NY
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, Dublin, Ireland
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings
Collection, MoMA, New York, NY
2008 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, FL
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, NY
Nine Drawings for Projection, 2005 MOMA, New York, NY
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
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, NY
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
03-04 Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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, TE
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; 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, NY
2002 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
00-01 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, NY
2000 Illuminations: Contemporary Film and Video Art, Ackland Art Museum, The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Insistent Memory: The Architecture of Time in Video, Harn Museum of Art,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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, TX
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, MN; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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, NY
Hugo Boss Prize, SoHo Guggenheim, New York, NY
24th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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, 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, NM
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, GA
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 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, DC
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, NY; 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, NY
1981 National Graphic Show, South African Association of Art, Belville, Cape Town,
South Africa
AWARDS
2018 Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2014 Penagos Prize, MAPFRE Foundation
2013 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University, England
Distinguished Visiting Humanist at the University of Rochester, NY
2010 Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, England
Kyoto Prize
Honorary Doctorate, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2003 Kaiserring Prize, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
Sharjah Biennial 6 Prize, United Arab Emirates
2000 Residency as Master Artist, Civitella Ranieri Center, Italy
Carnegie Prize, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
1998 Hugo Boss Prize (nomination), SoHo Guggenheim, New York, NY
1991 Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award, Johannesburg, South Africa for
Mine
1990 Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award, Johannesburg, South Africa for
Monumen
1987 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Grahamstown, South Africa
1985 Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York, New York for Salestalk
1984 Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama, Cape Town, South Africa for Landlords and Rotgut, (collaboration with
Junction Avenue Theatre Company)
1982 Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction, American Film Festival, New York, NY for Howl at the Moon