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Zanele Muholi
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Born in Umlazi, Durban, 1972. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Completed Advanced Photography course at Market Photo Workshop, Newtown, 2004

Solo exhibitions

2007

Being, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town

2006

Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna
Only half the picture, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Only half the picture, Market Theatre Photo Workshop, Johannesburg
Only half the picture, Galerie 32-34, Amsterdam
'SoWhereTo Now', Afrovibes and Galeries 32-34, Amsterdam

2004

Visual Sexuality: As part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition) Johannesburg Art Gallery

Selected group exhibitions

2008

Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
.za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Perfect Lovers, ArtExtra, Johannesburg
Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan

2007

Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Graz
Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and other venues, Germany
Cape '07, Lookout Hill, Khayelitha, Cape Town

2006

Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2005

South African art 1848 - now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
A Lesson from History, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
Subject to Change, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Month of Photography, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Erotic Blenders, Toronto, Canada

2004

Young Vision 2004, Alliance Française, Johannesburg
Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town
Pride Week, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
Gender & Visuality Conference, University of the Western Cape
Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable? (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Museum Africa, Johannesburg
Urban Life, (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg

2003

Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg
Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg
Women Arts Festival, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg

2002

Women Arts Festival, Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna

Fellowship

2006

BHP Billiton/ Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship

Awards

2005

Tollman Award
LGBTI Art & Culture Award

Film

2007

Being Mum, documentary on black lesbian mothers

2005

Enraged by a picture, film screenings at the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian film festival, various venues

Conferences

2007

International Resource Network (IRN), Africa Meeting, Dakar, Senegal

2006

African Feminist Forum, Ghana, Accra
Black Autonomy, ADEFRA, Berlin, Germany

2005

Sexual Rights and Moral Panics, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS) conference, San Francisco State University, California
World Beyond Words (part of Writing African Women conference at the University of the Western Cape), Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
Doing Gender, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape

2003

Sex & Secrecy, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture & Society (IASSCS) Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg

Selected publications

Zanele Muholi's photographs have appeared in South African gay and feminist publications including:
Womyn, Exit and Agenda (issues 61 and 63); on Behind the Mask (www.mask.org.za) and the GALA (Gay and Lesbian Archives) website (www.gala.wits.ac.za)
Covers of books including: An ABC of LGBTI: A resource guide (published by the Joint Working Group, Johannesburg, 2005), Balancing Act and Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives edited by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa (GALA and Jacana, Johannesburg, 2005)
The Gender of Psychology, 2006, Shefer, T., Boonzaier F. and Kiguwa P. (ed)
Other Publications:
Vitamin Ph, 2006 published by Phaidon, London (page 192); Women by Women, 50 years of Women's photography in South Africa, edited by Robin Comley, George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma, 2006; Beukes, (L) Maverick, extraordinary women from South Africa's past, Catalogue 115; Only half the picture Texts by Argo Spier Lawore Olufemi, Private, issue # 36, Feminist Africa 6: Subaltern Sexualities, Issue 6: September 2006, Cape Town The Cape Town Month of Photography, p92/ 114, edited by Geoffrey Grundlingh. Bell-Roberts & Publishing

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