Zanele Muholi

**Zanele Muholi**  (bɛ dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli 19 July 1972) ka o nyɛ South Africa nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun yaari anfooninima, vidiyo, ni din pahi. Muholi's tuma jendila paɣaba mini dobba yɛltɔɣa din nyɛ zaɣ'kura kamani yuma din gari 2000s polo, ka sabiri jendiri South Africa gbansabila paɣaɣa ni paɣa taba bɔbu , doo ni doo taba bɔbu , paɣa mini doo bɔbu ni din pahi pahi.

Muholi daa nyɛla bɛ ni kali so pahi Deutsche Börse Photography Prize ni yuuni 2015. O daa deei Infinity Award, International Center of Photography yuuni 2016,  Chevalier de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres yuuni 2016, ni Honorary Fellowship zaŋ ti Royal Photographic Society yuuni 2018.

## Publication
**Zanele Muholi: Only Half The Picture.* Cape Town: Michael Stevenson, 2006. .
**Faces and Phases.* Munich; Berlin; London; New York: Prestel, 2010. .
**Zanele Muholi. African Women Photographers #1.* Granada, Spain: Casa África/La Fábrica, 2011. .
**Faces + Phases 2006–14.* Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2014. .
**Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness*. Renée Mussai (author), Zanele Muholi (photographer), et al., New York: Aperture, 2018, .

## Exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions
*2004: *Visual Sexuality,* as part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
*2006: Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna: Slide Show
*2014: *Faces and Phases,* Massimadi Festival, Montreal, Canada
*2015: *Zanele Muholi: Vukani/Rise,* Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England
*2015: *Somnyama Ngonyama,* Yancey Richardson, New York, NY, USA
*2017: *Zanele Muholi, *Stedelijk, Amsterdam
*2017: *Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness,* Autograph ABP, London, England
*2017: *Zanele Muholi Homecoming*: Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
*2018: *Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness* Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
*2019: *Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness* Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, USA
*2019: *Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness,* Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
*2019: *Faces and Phases 13,* Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
*2020/21: *Zanele Muholi*, Tate Modern, London, England (delayed opening) – their biggest solo exhibition to date
**2022: Zanele Muholi*, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
**2022: Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance,* Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
*2022: *Zanele Muholi*, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
*2023: Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
*2023: MUHOLI: *A Visual Activist,* Mudec-Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy
**2023: Zanele Muholi*, engelhorn Mode im Quadrat, Mannheim, Germany
**2023: Zanele Muholi*, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
*2024: *Zanele Muholi: Eye Me,* San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
*2024: *Zanele Muholi,* Tate Modern, London, UK

### Group exhibitions
*2011: *Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography,* Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
*2016: *Systematically Personae* at the FotoFocus Biennal, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
*2017: *Art/Afrique,* Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
*2018: *Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection,* Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
*2018: *Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks,* MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Boston, MA, USA
*2019: *Yithi Laba.* A group exhibition by Lindeka Qampi, Neo Ntsoma, Zanele Muholi, Ruth Seopedi Motau and Berni Searle at Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
*2019: *58th [[Venice Biennale]] curated by Ralph Rugoff*
*2020: *Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present*, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, USA
*2020: *Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection*, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, USA
*2020: *Crossing Views,* Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
*2020: *African Cosmologies: Fotofest Biennial 2020,* Houston, Texas, USA
*2020: *[[Biennale of Sydney|Sydney Biennale]] 2020,* Sydney Australia
*2021: *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
*2021: *Interior Infinite,* The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
*2021: *THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED,* ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Red Clay, Ghana
*2022: *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
*2022: *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
*2022: *Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection*, ICA Miami, Miami, FL, USA
*2022: *A Gateway to Possible Worlds*, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
*2022: *The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor*, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
*2022: *Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore* Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Brampton, ON, Canada
*2023: *Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore* Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Brampton, ON, Canada
*2023: *Black Venus*, Fotografiska, New York, NY
*2023: *Museu de l’art Prohibit*, Barcelona, Spain
*2023: *La Cinquième Saison (The Fifth Season)*, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
*2023: *Love & Anarchy*, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
*2023: *Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics*, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
*2023: *Africa Fashion*, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
*2023: *Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture*, Somerset House, London, UK
*2023: *Youth vs. Crisis: A Generation in Search of a Future*, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
*2023: *A Gateway to Possible Worlds*, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
*2023: *Coyote Park: I Love You Like Mirrors Do*, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
*2023: *Trace – Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection*, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
*2023: *Lente Africana; fotografia subsahariana de la colleción del Museum of Fine Arts, Houston*, TX, USA
*2023: Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia
*2023: *Nudes – Art from the Tate*, LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster, Germany
*2023: *Photography Real and Imagined*, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
*2023: *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
*2023: *This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection*, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
*2023: *Dawn of Humanity: Art in Periods of Upheaval*, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
*2023: *Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
*2023: *Veneradas y Temidas: El poder femenino en el arte y las creencias*, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
*2024: *Photography Real and Imagined*, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
*2024: *Dawn of Humanity: Art in Periods of Upheaval*, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany *Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
*2024: *This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection*, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
*2024: *Turning the Page*, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
*2024: *Veneradas y Temidas: El poder femenino en el arte y las creencias*, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain; CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CaixaForum Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; CaixaForum Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

### Curated exhibitions
*2016: Co-curated a show at Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, Arles, France

## Awards
*2005: Tollman Award for the Visual Arts
*2006: BHP Billiton/Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship
*2009: Thami Mnyele Residency in Amsterdam
*2009: Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*2009: Fondation Blachère award at African Photography Encounters (Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Biennale Africaine de la photographie) in Bamako, Mali
*2009: Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for their outstanding contributions to the study of sexuality in Africa
*2012: Civitella Ranieri Fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy
*2013: Freedom of Expression award by *[[Index on Censorship]]*
*2013: Glamour Magazine named them Campaigner of the Year
*2013: Winner of the Fine Prize for the 2013 Carnegie International
*2013: Prince Claus Award
*2013: Feather Award (South Africa's LGBTI Awards)
*2015: Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for *Faces and Phases 2006–2014*
*2015: Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, Syracuse, NY, USA
*2016: Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
*2016: *[[Africa's Out!]]* *Courage + Creativity Award*
*2016: *Outstanding International Alumni Award* from Ryerson University
*2017: Mbokodo Award (Visual Art) for South African Women in the Arts
*2017: Chevalier de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knighthood of the Order Arts and Letters)
*2018: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England
*2019: Rees Visionary Award, Amref Health Africa, New York, USA
*2019: Lucie Humanitarian Award
*2019 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Best Photography Book Award

## Collections
Muholi's work is held in the following public collections:
*Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (7 prints)
*Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (3 prints as of October 2018)
*Museum of Modern Art, New York (6 prints as of March 2019)
*Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (1 featured print as of March 2019)
*North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
*Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2 prints as of March 2019)
*Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
*Tate Modern, London (15 pieces)
*Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (3 prints as of August 2020)
*National Museum of Women in the Arts

## Kundivihira

## External links
*"My year as a dark lioness – in pictures " – a gallery of photographs in *The Guardian*
*"Zanele Muholi: Mobile Studio" from Art21
*Zanele Muholi at Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
*Zanele Muholi at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York, USA
*Zanele Muholi at La MEP, Paris, France