Guy Tillim

CV

Born 1962 in Johannesburg; lives and works in Cape Town
Bachelor of Commerce degree, University of Cape Town

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010

 Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Jo'burg, Centre du Patrimoine Arménien, Valence, France

2009

 Roma, città di mezzo, FotoGrafia, Rome
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Extracity, Antwerp
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, FOAM, Amsterdam
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Extraspazio, Rome
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

2008

 Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Guy Tillim, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Guy Tillim, Haus Für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland
2007

 Congo Democratic, Extraspazio, Rome
Congo Democratic, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2006

 Petros Village, Museo di Roma, Trastevere, Italy
Petros Village, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2005

 Jo'burg, Johannesburg Art Gallery (June); Durban Art Gallery
Jo'burg, Festival Artist, PhotoEspana, Madrid
Leopold and Mobutu, Photographer's Gallery, London
Jo'burg, Rencontres Photographiques de Bamako, Mali
2004

 Jo'burg, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
DaimlerChysler Award exhibition, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart; DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Leopold and Mobutu, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Kunhinga Portraits, Sala Uno, Rome
2003

 Kunhinga Portraits, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
Congo, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
Congo, Fotofiesta Medellin, Colombia
Departure, Higashikawa Photo Festival, Hokkaido, Japan
Departure, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
Departure, NSA Galley, Durban
Departure, PhotoZA, Johannesburg
2002

 Kuito, Angola, Societe des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris
2001

 Kuito, Angola, South African Museum, Cape Town
Kuito, Angola, Gallery Dupon, Paris
1996

 Kabul, Afghanistan, Durban Centre for Photography, Durban

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010

 Africa: Objects and Subjects, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijon; Canal de Isabel II, Madrid
The Original Copy: Photography of sculpture, 1839 to today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Southern Germany
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2009

 Welt - Bilder 3, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland
Great Expectations: Contemporary photography looks at today's Bitter Years, Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
ImageSingulières festival, Sète, France
The Tropics: Views from the middle of the globe, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
The Face of Our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London
2008

 Short Stories in Contemporary Photography, Museum of Design, Zurich
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Home Lands - Land Marks, Haunch of Venison, London
Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 2, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
Cities in Crisis: Photographs of the SA Urban Landscape, FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts
2007

 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Children in Conflict, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Ostropicos, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Museum Bochum, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and other venues in Germany
Photography, Video, Mixed Media III, DaimlerChrysler Gallery, Berlin
Non Tutte Le Strade Portano a Roma, FotoGrafia, International Festival of Rome
2006

 Photography, Video, Mixed Media III, DaimlerChrysler Gallery, Berlin
SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age, Neue Galerie, Graz
São Paulo Biennale
Thy Brother's Keeper, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of Photogaphy, New York

2005

 Lasting Foundations, Museum for African Art, New York
Unsettled, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
2004

 Africa Remix, museum kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris; and Las Palmas; Tokyo; Stockholm; Johannesburg (2004-7)
A Decade of Democracy: South African art from the permanent collection, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
2003

 Unveiled, OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf
1998

 eyeAfrica: African Photography 1840-1998, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
1996 Colors: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

AWARDS

2006

 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography awarded by the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
2005

 Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005 (for the Jo'burg series)

2004

 DaimlerChrysler Award for Photography, South Africa
2003

 Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan
2002

 Prix SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic, France (for Kuito, Angola)

2001

 Finalist, Prix Care for Humanitarian Reportage, France
1999

 Mondi Award for photojournalism, South Africa (report on the Himba people of Northern Namibia)

1998

 Mondi Award for photojournalism, South Africa (Congo River: journey from Kisangani to Kinshasa)