Zanele Muholi

NEWS: Zanele Muholi was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), visiting the campus in February/March. She showed alongside Lucy Azubuike on Like a Virgin at the CCA Lagos in January/February 2009. She is included on Museion Collection: New acquisitions at the Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy (13 March - 14 February 2010), and Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009 at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands (30 May - 23 August). She has a solo exhibition at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, from 9 July to 8 August 2009.

LATEST WORK

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

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 has as a photographer and reporter for Behind the Mask, an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa. Her work represents the black female body in a frank yet intimate way that challenges the history of the portrayal of black women's bodies in documentary photography. Her solo exhibition Only half the picture, which showed at Michael Stevenson in March 2006, has 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. She was the recipient of the 2005 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts, and the first BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006. Recent group exhibitions include S&M: Shrines and masquerades in cosmopolitan times at NYU Steinhardt, New York (2008); Radical Drag: Transformative performance at SAW Gallery in Ottawa, Canada (2008); .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008); Make Art/Stop AIDS at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles (2008); and Heterotopias: the first Thessaloniki Biennale (2007). Full CV