Zanele Muholi

NEWS: Zanele Muholi won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography (2009). She also received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions in the study of sexuality in Africa, at the Genders & Sexualities in Africa Conference held in Syracuse, New York. She has work on the group show In Between in conjunction with an artist's residency at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania; exhibition dates are 26 January to 16 February. She will also take part in a colloquium on Sara Baartman at the Africana Research Center at Penn State University on 1 March.

LATEST EXHIBITION

Being (T)here on Summer 2009/10: Projects (26 November 2009 - 16 January 2010)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Faces and Phases at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (9 July - 1 August 2009)
New Faces and Phases (2009)
Iveza, Isibonelo and Isililo II on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (19 February - 21 March 2009)
Faces and Phases: Siyafana on Summer 2008/9: Projects (27 November 2008 - 10 January 2009)
La Rochelle on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Miss D'vine (2007)
Faces and Phases (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

Only half the picture (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972. 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. In 2008 she had a solo show at Le Case d'Arte, Milan, and in 2009 she exhibited alongside Lucy Azubuike at the CCA Lagos, Nigeria. Recent group exibitions include Museion Collection: New acquisitions at the Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy (2009); Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2009); and Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, USA (2009). 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). Full CV