Zanele Muholi

NEWS: Zanele Muholi's Faces and Phases series was published by Prestel in June, and has been selected for the 29th São Paulo Biennale (25 September - 12 December). Her work can be seen on After A, Photo Notes on South Africa as part of the Atri Reportage Festival in Italy (17 June - 29 August); the Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam (29 July - 3 October); PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011); Uprooting the Gaze: Foreign places familiar patterns, a Fringe exhibition of the Brighton Photo Biennial (2 October - 14 November); and Position as Desired - Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection at ROM, Toronto (2 October - 27 March).

RECENT EXHIBITION

Faces and Phases on This is Our Time (3 June - 24 July 2010)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Indawo Yami (22 April - 29 May 2010)
Being (T)here on Summer 2009/10: Projects (26 November 2009 - 16 January 2010)
Iveza, Isibonelo and Isililo II on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (19 February - 21 March 2009)
Faces and Phases (2006 - 2010)
La Rochelle on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Miss D'vine (2007)
Being (4 June - 7 July 2007)
Portraits on Cape '07 (24 March 2007 - 2 May 2007)
Portraits on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
Only half the picture (29 March - 29 April 2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Faces and Phases (2010)
Only half the picture (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972, and lives in Cape Town. She completed an Advanced Photography course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown and held her first solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2004. She has worked as a community relations officer for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng, and as a photographer and reporter for Behind the Mask, an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa. Her solo exhibition Only half the picture, which showed at Michael Stevenson in March 2006, travelled to the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and the Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows have taken place at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto and at Fred, London (2010). She was the recipient of the 2005 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, the first BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006, and was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2009 she received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions to the study of sexuality in Africa. She also won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography in 2009. Full CV

Also see www.zanelemuholi.com