Zanele Muholi

NEWS: Zanele Muholi has a solo exhibition at Le Case d'Arte, Milan, running from 19 September to 10 November 2008. She is included on Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (10 September - 10 December 2008), travelling to the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (31 January - 26 April 2009).

RECENT WORK

La Rochelle on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Miss D'vine (2007)

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Faces & 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. 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 .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